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It’s Nothing To Sneeze At By Ronda Addy

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COCKROACHES (cont’d) • One scientist suspended cockroaches over a salt solution. If a roach extended its leg it would get wet, which completed an electrical circuit, delivering a shock to the bug. It took the cockroaches about half an hour to learn to keep their legs up to avoid the shock. The researcher then tried the experiment using decapitated cockroaches and found they were able to learn just as quickly. • A test performed in 1957 showed that female roaches with access to water but no food could live 42 days before dying of starvation. Those given no food and no water lived two to three weeks. Thus, they are ideally suited for travelling and can be shut up for long periods of time while being accidentally shipped from one area of the world to another, whether it’s in a soldier’s duffel bag, a ship full of timber, or a truckload of produce. LOVE AND MARRIAGE • To attract a mate, a female roach will flex her legs, lift her wings, and emit a chemical “perfume” called a pheromone that can be detected by a male roach up to 33 feet (10 m) away. When the male approaches, the two seem to do a bit of fencing with their antennae. • In the majority of roach species, mating encounters are casual and the female later drops her egg case in a safe location and abandons it. But the story is different with the brown-hooded wood cockroach, which inhabits the Atlantic coastline from New York to Georgia. They mate for life. Together the male and female chew into wood making a series of small chambers where they live with their family for the rest of their lives. About a year after the male and female bond, their first offspring are born and both parents tend the young. Families usually consist of less than half a dozen youngsters. The families stick together for three or four years while the young mature. (continued next page) TIDBITS OF NIAGARA REGION IS NOW ON FACEBOOK

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COCKROACH LANGUAGE • Cockroaches are able to make noises in the same way crickets and katydids do, by rubbing body parts together. The sound is similar to running a finger over the teeth of a comb. They are also able to emit a squeak when captured which is loud enough to sometimes startle the predator into dropping them. The Madagascar hissing cockroach when disturbed expels air from its abdomen producing a noise that can be heard 12 feet (3.6 m) away. KILLING COCKROACHES • 400 rads of radiation can kill a human — but it takes 3,200 rads to kill a cockroach, and some can survive 10,000 rads. That means that some cockroaches survived Hiroshima. So how can you eradicate a roach? Through chemical warfare. One of the cheapest and most reliable methods of roach control is powdered boric acid. Boric acid is commonly used as an eyewash and is available at any drug store. It’s also called Borax and found in the laundry aisle of the supermarket. Roaches that walk through this will groom themselves, ingesting the powder which collects in their gut, eventually killing them. • Spray a roach with Raid and a chemical dissolves the creature’s exoskeleton, a truly horrible way to die. • The labs at the S. C. Johnson Corp. breed and raise around 80,000 roaches each week for the express purpose of finding new ways to kill them. The company manufactures insecticides such as Raid, so a full-time staff works to provide experimental victims. • When a recipe for controlling roaches appeared in a “Hints from Heloise” article in 1982, the editors of the column were swamped with over 40,000 requests for copies. • Roaches provide food for various animals that prey on roaches, supplying three times as much protein as chicken meat.

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What activity in the home causes more fires and injuries than anything else? Cooking, of course. The kitchen is one of the most dangerous places in the home due to all of the baking, boiling, broiling, frying, sautéing and steaming that takes place there. Safe cooking practices are a must to keep risks down. When you’re cooking, consider the following: An apron is not enough. While an apron will help keep your clothes clean, it will not keep your loose, baggy sleeves away from hot burners or open flames. Roll up your sleeves or switch to a short-sleeved shirt when cooking. The best appliances in the world can’t make up for abuse or misuse. Purchase quality appliances and use and care for them properly. Read the owner’s manual and follow all recommendations. Don’t plug your toaster into an extension cord. You could overload the circuit and cause a fire. Don’t use a plastic spoon in your deep fryer. It could melt and cause a fire.

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• Worldwide, there are about 6,000 species of worms. Of those, 180 live in North America. A third of those are invasive species, including the popular night crawler. • In areas that were covered by glaciers during the last ice age, all worm life was eliminated. When the glaciers melted, the northern forests evolved in an ecosystem devoid of worms. When worms were introduced, either by well-meaning gardeners, as ballast in ships, or in root balls of imported plants, the ecological balance was thrown off. • Worms eat and digest duff, the slowly rotting top layer of dead leaves that the trees depend on, making nutrients harder for the tree to acquire. When the duff has been digested, all that remains is the hardened soil layer underneath which sapling tree roots cannot penetrate. Insects and other small creatures whose lifecycles revolve around duff are stressed by the loss. Worm holes allow rainwater to flow away faster instead of retaining the moisture. In some places, oak forests were subsequently overrun by buckthorn and barberry due to the arrival of the worms and the loss of the duff. • In other areas where glaciation did not scrape the soil away and kill off all worms, worms evolved along with the ecosystem. In these places they provide invaluable services: they “plow” the soil, loosening it and creating channels where tree roots can grow, where oxygen can flow, and where water can percolate. They mix nutrients in, making the soil more fertile. Worm poop, called “castings” has a higher level of nutrients than normal dirt. • Aristotle called worms “the intestines of the earth.” Even Cleopatra recognized the value of earthworms and declared them to be sacred. (cont’d next page)

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WORMS (cont’d) • Worms are hermaphrodites, meaning they can be either male or females, yet they still need another worm to mate. • Every earthworm has a band that looks like a collar encircling its body. After the worm mates, the ring hardens, and the worm crawls out of it. As it is crawling through the ring, the worm deposits eggs and sperm inside the ring, which then falls off. The ends of the ring are sealed off and the ring turns into a cocoon for the developing worm babies which emerge, fully formed but very tiny, several weeks later. • Worms come to the surface during heavy rains because the damp earth facilitates movement and makes it easier to find a mate. • A robin can eat up to 14 feet (4 m) worth of worms in a day. • The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet (6.7 m) long. • The maximum lifespan of an earthworm in captivity is about six years. • There are over 1 million earthworms in one acre of soil. • They can burrow up to 15 feet (4.5 m) below ground. • Earthworms are 82% protein. T-bone steak is only 32% protein. Worms are high in omega-3 fats. • Earthworms have no lungs. They breathe through their skin. • Composting with worms occurs four times faster than normal composting. • Charles Darwin, who studied earthworms extensively, said, “It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.”

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Turkey Soup “Bowls” Are One of a Kind I once produced and hosted an Internet cooking show called “The Kitchen Diva!” After we finished one of the shows, I had a large amount of leftover turkey pieces, an abundance of acorn squash and several small containers of cooked vegetables. I didn’t want anything to go to waste, so I decided to turn the turkey and vegetables into a soup and use the acorn squash as “bowls.” No matter what leftover vegetables you use or how you decide to serve this soup, the results are spectacular.

TURKEY SOUP IN ACORN SQUASH TUREENS 6 acorn squash, each about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for oiling squash 1 cup finely chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup diced celery 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 pound cooked turkey meat, diced into bite-size pieces 1 1/2 cups cooked orzo or other small pasta, such as riso 1 1/2 cups turkey or chicken broth 2 cups cooked vegetables (corn, peas, carrots, potatoes, etc.) 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 1. Heat oven to 375 F.

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saucer or in a small bowl and fill them with the soup. Sprinkle with cheese and replace the lids. Serve immediately. Makes 6 servings.

SOURDOUGH BREAD BOWLS If you don’t have any acorn squash on hand, a bread bowl made from a freshly baked, round loaf of sourdough bread is a wonderful substitute. 6 (about 6 inches wide) round loaves of sourdough bread 1/2 cup olive oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic or garlic powder 1 teaspoon minced parsley

2. Cut a small amount off the bottom tip to allow squash to stand upright, but don’t cut a hole in the bottom. Cut a lid off the top of each squash and scoop out the seeds and fibers. Scrape away some of the flesh, especially around the top, to form a large, smooth inner cavity. Make sure to leave the shell at least 1-inch thick all around, without piercing it. Oil the squash inside and out, and season the inside with salt and pepper. Replace the lid. 3. Place the squash on a baking sheet and bake until mostly cooked, but still firm enough to stand and act as the soup container, about 30 minutes. Do not over-bake. If a good deal of liquid gathers in the bottom, spoon it out and discard. Set the shells aside; they will stay warm on their own for a good while. 4. Heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the garlic, celery, bell pepper, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Stir in the turkey, cooked orzo, broth and cooked vegetables. 5. Place the reserved acorn squash shells on a

1. Heat oven to 400 F. Using a serrated bread knife, slice off the top of the bread loaves. Using your fingers, pull the soft center of each loaf away from the shells. Leave a 1-inch thickness of soft bread dough around the inside of the crusts. Reserve the bread dough centers and freeze to use for breadcrumbs or croutons. 2. Mix together the olive oil, garlic or garlic powder and parsley. Brush the inside of the bread bowls and the dough sides of the lids with olive oil mixture. Place bread bowls and lids on a baking sheet. Bake for 5 to 10 minutes until golden brown. 3. Let bread bowls cool, and fill with the soup. Sprinkle with cheese and top with lids. Serve immediately. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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