cockroach

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The past decade has seen a boom in descriptions of unexpected pollinators, including lizards, opossums, brown rats and cockroaches.

From Scientific American

Confirming the discovery could add an amphibian to the surprisingly diverse list of recently discovered pollinators — there are pollinating rats, cockroaches and even lizards.

From New York Times

Grasshoppers, cicadas, cockroaches, and yes, dragonflies, are all examples of incomplete metamorphosis, also called non-holometabolous.

From New York Times

"There were kids who changed their locations five times in five months, some children say that they were living with rats and cockroaches," he said.

From Reuters

Former inmate Femi Laryea-Adekimi has told the BBC how prisoners share their dilapidated cells with rats and cockroaches, and are often locked up for as much as 23 hours a day.

From BBC