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The document provides facts about mosquitoes and cockroaches. Female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite, can detect carbon dioxide from a distance, and lay up to 300 eggs at a time, while cockroaches are nocturnal, can survive without their heads for a week, and have existed longer than dinosaurs. Additionally, cockroaches can trigger asthma symptoms.

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Pest Facts - 1

The document provides facts about mosquitoes and cockroaches. Female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite, can detect carbon dioxide from a distance, and lay up to 300 eggs at a time, while cockroaches are nocturnal, can survive without their heads for a week, and have existed longer than dinosaurs. Additionally, cockroaches can trigger asthma symptoms.

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Pest Facts

Mosquitoes

1. Only Female Mosquitoes bite and they lay up to 300 eggs at a time.
2. Mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide from 75 feet away; they also sense
the heat and humidity that surrounds our body.
3. A Mosquito's Wings Beat 300–600 times per second which is the irritating
buzzing sound we hear.
4. Mosquitoes are attracted to the human scent of sweat, which includes the
odor of lactic acid in human body.
Cockroaches

1. Cockroaches are nocturnal insects.


2. Cockroaches are older than the dinosaurs. There are more than 4000
different cockroach species worldwide
3. Roaches survive for a week without the head. Cockroaches live without
food for almost thirty days.
4. Cockroach can aggravate asthma.

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