Madagascar hissing cockroaches invade Moscow's underground facilities

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http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/15782_Madagascar.html

Madagascar hissing cockroaches invade Moscow's underground facilities
07/09/2005 15:27
Passengers of the Moscow metro say that they can see large Madagascar cockroaches crawling on central metro stations

Entomologists are certain that the exotic insects appeared in Moscow owing to tourists' efforts: the damp and warm atmosphere of the Moscow metro turned out to be the perfect environment for the cockroaches to breed in. Spokespeople for the metro administration said, however, that they would soon launch a powerful system to disinfect train cars, tunnels and stations with the help of ultraviolet radiation.

Madagascar cockroaches were originally trying to hide in cellars. However, they could not face the competition with rats in cold underground corridors, until they made their way to the Moscow metro. Specialists say that the environment of the underground transportation system fits the exotic creates perfectly. The cockroaches may enjoy comfortable temperatures and humidity there all the year round. There are no problems with food either.

Passengers of the Moscow metro say that they can see large Madagascar cockroaches crawling on central metro stations, such as Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya, or Lubyanka. "Wingless insects can penetrate into underground facilities through numerous cracks and tracks that lead to the tunnels," the chairman of the Moscow underground research center, Vadim Mikhailov said. "It is not easy to get rid of those insects. Russian-Madagascar cockroaches are more viable than our traditional cockroaches. Madagascar beetles do not transmit infections. They do not bite and are quite cleanly," the specialist assured.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Republicans are from Madagascar?

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2. Evidentally, and they're quite taken with the Russian underground!

Who'd a thunk it?????

[Unforgiven]

5. No

you have them confused with the large whining cockroach of North America: Regressive Cockroachses Republicanus

[Mari333]

3. I will be the first person to say EWWWWW

[BayouBengal07]

4. those things are cool

They're big for roaches, I'm sure they're pretty creepy to see in the subway. We had two of them in my sixth grade classroom (as pets, not pests- one was Maddy, the other Gascar). They would crawl on you and if you poked them they would hiss. It sounded kind of like a cat's hiss. It was a weird defense mechanism.

[punpirate]

6. Uhh, cockroaches that...

... talk back to you?

Sweet jesus on a bicycle... the world is a zoo, isn't it? :)

[RetroLounge]

7. Fred Grady is in Moscow?

I thought he was in Nebraska...

RL

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8. Why was this moved??

It qualifies as late breaking news...



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