From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 01:26:46 MST
spike66 wrote:
> Unlike many insect's strategy of conserving energy
> with slothful ponderous movements, the cockroach
> darts and scurries. (Have you ever seen one calmly
> walking? No.)
Well, yes. I have. They have two forms of locomotion,
one leg at a time and three legs at a time, ISTR,
according to work I've read on a poster on the wall
at my old Alma Mater in Ohio. I have watched a cockroach
operating in "slow mode" using night vision equipment.
Quite graceful.
There are even some colonies/varieties that don't go into
"scurry mode" when you put the lights on.
There are possibly some body moisture retention functions
of cockroach wings, too.
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