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Sometimes the eggs hatch alive even within the quiescent body of the pupa. The same incredible thing occasionally occurs within the fly genus Miastor, again to both larvae and pupae. “These eggs hatch within their bodies and the ravenous larvae which emerge immediately begin devouring their parents.” In this case, I know what it’s all about, and I
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“Here is an animal of frugal habits, tenacious of life, eager to live in the laboratory and very modest in its space requirements.”
Richard Schweid • The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore
Elle finit par identifier des acariens, êtres minuscules caparaçonnés de pointes et d'antennes, de poils et de crochets, qui migrent en troupeaux à la recherche de niches bien poussiéreuses. 103 683e est amusée par cette vision. Dire qu'il existe des êtres aussi petits que les acariens et d'autres aussi gros que les fourmis sur la même planète.
Bernard Werber • Les Fourmis (French Edition)
Cockroach caca can still bring roaches together even after it has been exposed to the air at room temperatures for nearly a year (Metzger, 1995).
Richard Schweid • The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore
tonight even parasitic insects will appear to me as a bad form of collectivity that can stand as a figure of its possibility, circulating blood from host to host. Like a joke cycle, like a prosody.

















