not a bird

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Subject:	not a bird
From:	"Jim Longworth" <>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:49:40 +1100 (EST)

You're half right Philip, they are in the order Blattodea, but are not
true 'bugs', which is the order Hemiptera. Unless "bug" is used as a
generic term for all insects of course.

http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects_allies.html

cheers
Jim

> 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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