MY WONDERFUL GIANT MADAGASCAR HISSING COCKROACHES

       Thank you, Andrew, for taking the pictures, and for getting the cockroach out from inside my chair, and from behind my trash can.  And thank you, Micki, for working to keep them on me and in view. 

       Occasionally one would hiss.  I wanted a photo of one on my face, but cockroaches know better than to get on someone's face.

 

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       Oh great.  I have one male and three females.  One female is pregnant (I see signs of the egg sac within), and I just saw the male breeding with another female.  The young are born live, with from 15 to 60 babies (nymphs) at a time.  Apparently the Carolina Biological Supply Company sent us a lot more than four.  What fun!    ~ Dale

 

 

 

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 Please forgive the tiny numbers.  They're in there.

ACROSS

3.  Brain flash

4.  Dale has collected every issue

7.  Kind of camp Dale sneaked into

9.  Character Chester IL is known for

10.  Feeling sad

11.  Gift from Mount St. Helens

13.  Skelton

15.  Kerouac's generation

16.  Bird that ran to Dale for help

17.  Brontosaurus had a long one

18.  Had dinner

20.  What we should pray every day

21.  It had no legs in the poem

22.  Character created by Dale Lund

23.  Only car people can buy

24.  The Lunds' method of travel

28.  Bronson at the nudist camp

29.  LSD

30.  Cecil's buddy

31.  Toothpaste that gives you wolf teeth

32.  Mothman or Flatwoods Monster

36.  1937 card game the Lunds enjoy

38.  Vintage Swiss Army motorcycle

 

DOWN

 

1.  Gorilla that escaped in Seattle

2.  Mountain in the song

5.  Harvest

6.  Tent site

7.  Famous Egyptian queen

8.  Carrion eating bird

12.  What should be accepted in public everywhere

14.  A Brazilian indigenous tribe

17.  Subject of Dale Lund's first book

19.  Arrow's partner

25.  Human paw

26.  Catholic translator of the Bible

27.  The 2CV

28.  What every home should have

33.  Walt Kelly's possum

34.  What makes a rink slick

35.  Chicago, Cream or Doors

37.  Password with sesame

39.  I bump my knee in it

 

 

ANSWERS 

 

INFATUATIONS

 

well . . .

 

 

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