Cockroaches rarely take flight. But, when they do, temperatures must be high.(Photo: Julie Larsen Maher, AP)
The air is thick with humidity, heat and now flying cockroaches.
Yes, the six-legged pests that normally crawl through the night are taking flight.
While New Yorkers are slogging through the heat<span style="color: Red;">*</span>this weekend with highs in the 90s and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
plenty of humidity, cockroaches are coming alive.
Louis Sorkin, bug expert at the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
American Museum of Natural History, told New York blog<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
DNA Info<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"with more heat they have more use of their muscles ...<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The more activity, the more flight."
Meaning, more<span style="color: Red;">*</span>roaches who rarely fly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>might stretch their wings and go airborne.
That's right. Besides being impossible to squish, having the ability to squeeze through tiny cracks and bite<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with a force
50 times their<span style="color: Red;">*</span>body weight, cockroaches can also fly.
Besides just buzzing around, the insects might take flight to find a cooler home,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Srini Kambhampati,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a professor and chair of the biology department at the University of Texas at Tyler, told
NBC News.
Wherever they fly, hopefully it won't be near you.
Follow Ashley May on Twitter: @AshleyMayTweets
Powered By WizardRSS.com |
Full Text RSS Feed
