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A cockroach can live for up to one week without its head. |
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Cockroaches are one of the oldest insects. There are cockroach fossil remains which date back 200 million years. Cockroaches have wings, six legs, and two antennae.
A cockroach likes to eat sweet and floury foods and hang out in dark, wet places. A cockroach can survive a month or more without food, but less than two weeks without
water. There are two species of cockroach in the United States: the American cockroach and the German cockroach. The American cockroach has reddish-brown wings and light
mark. It can grow to be 1.5 inches long. The German cockroach is between one-half and five-eighths inches long and is light brown with two dark stripes down its
back.
