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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.
Some mites and some caterpillars also use silk to disperse through the air. Ballooning spiders can land on water and survive afloat. Their water-repellent legs keep them alive on both fresh and salt water enable them to survive waves to 0.5 millimetres in height.ome mites and some caterpillars also use silk to disperse through the air. Ballooning spiders can land on water and survive afloat. Their water-repellent legs keep them alive on both fresh and salt water enable them to survive waves to 0.5 millimetres in height.