The document provides interesting facts about cockroaches, including that crushed cockroaches can help ease wounds, they have white blood, and can live up to a week without their head. It also notes details about a writer named Kevin Halligan, including where he was born and that he wrote a poem about cockroaches while traveling in Asia.
2. Interesting Facts
⢠Crushed cockroaches when applied to a
wound, can help ease the sting
⢠Cockroaches have white blood
⢠A roach can live a week without a head. It dies
after a week due to lack of water
3. ⢠Roaches primarily come out for water, not
food
⢠Cockroaches can live a month without
food, but only a week without water
⢠A cockroach that has just shed it's skin is white
and has black eyes. It takes 8 hours to
reproduce the skin layer.
4. ⢠Cockroaches thrive in all conditions and live in
the desert as well as the arctic
⢠Most roaches have the ability to fly, but not all
do.
⢠Fried cockroaches are common snacks in
Cambodia, as are spiders and rats
5. Kevin Halligan
⢠Born in Toronto, Canada
⢠In 1964
⢠Anglophile
⢠Travelled extensively
⢠Wrote this poem in Asia
6. The Poem
⢠Intense focus on the cockroach â
why?
⢠Tone of the narrator
⢠Effect on the reader
