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Tasting hairs on the legs of a roach can not only help it determine a food source, but help it avoid pesticides as well. Glycocides -- poison baits mixed with glucose -- were traditionally used to dose the sweet-loving cockroach with lethal toxins.
Roaches have a pair of compound eyes, each made up of more than 2,000 individual hexagonal-shaped facets and each facet has its own optic nerve. Edit. Share to: 1  5 Methods for Managing and Preventing Cockroach Infestations The cockroach is perhaps the archetypal American pest.