Roaches Come Out Of The Shadows

Cockroaches brave enough to appear in broad daylight are usually fair game for spraying, swatting or squashing. On Saturday, they were the stars.

Cockroaches joined other less-than-savory six- and eight-legged critters for a day to call their own, the Dallas Zoo’s annual Bugfest.

One display included giant hissing cockroaches imported from Madagascar - as if the United States didn’t have enough roaches to call its own.

With relatively few evolutionary changes over 75 million years, the cockroach has survived the Ice Age and the Raid age. These wayward sons of carrion, with about 200 species in the United States alone, infest every corner of the world.