not a bird

To:	"Steve Holliday" <>, <>, <>
Subject:	not a bird
From:	"Philip Veerman" <>
Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:04:11 +1100

Yes and a cockroach is a bug (order blattodea), rather than a beetle (order coleoptera). (Beetles, apart from being enormously varied, can be picked by the front pair of wings being fairly rigid and the hind pair folded behind them.)

Philip

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