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A COCKROACH FAMINE

Few householders would grieve if they were suddenly bereft of all cockroaches on their premises, but such a deprivation is now being rather seriously felt at the London Zoo. Usually a regular supply could be obtained from the recesses beneath the Old Reptile House, where the insects had established themselves in large numbers, hut now that the reptiles have been removed to new quarters the old haunts have been swept away and the in-dwellers have ceased to exist. The larger cockroach, known as the American, is of special value as a food for a variety of lizards, and we are told that the Zoo authorities are facing the problem hy establishing a cockroach nursery on the roof of the new Reptile House. The society already breed their own meal-worms (once derived largely from Germany), and there is no reason why the cockroach establishment should not he equally successful.

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Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 13

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A COCKROACH FAMINE Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 13

A COCKROACH FAMINE Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 13