The document provides interesting facts about cockroaches, including that crushed cockroaches can help ease wounds, they have white blood, and can live up to a week without their head. It also notes details about a writer named Kevin Halligan, including where he was born and that he wrote a poem about cockroaches while traveling in Asia.

1. The Cockroach
Kevin Halligan

2. Interesting Facts
• Crushed cockroaches when applied to a
wound, can help ease the sting
• Cockroaches have white blood
• A roach can live a week without a head. It dies
after a week due to lack of water

3. • Roaches primarily come out for water, not
food
• Cockroaches can live a month without
food, but only a week without water
• A cockroach that has just shed it's skin is white
and has black eyes. It takes 8 hours to
reproduce the skin layer.

4. • Cockroaches thrive in all conditions and live in
the desert as well as the arctic
• Most roaches have the ability to fly, but not all
do.
• Fried cockroaches are common snacks in
Cambodia, as are spiders and rats

5. Kevin Halligan
• Born in Toronto, Canada
• In 1964
• Anglophile
• Travelled extensively
• Wrote this poem in Asia

6. The Poem
• Intense focus on the cockroach –
why?
• Tone of the narrator
• Effect on the reader