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Good morning, Houston. We don't mind telling you that we really have no love for cockroaches, but we do have a little bit more appreciation for the little critters after reading the Chronicle's interview with the Houston Museum of Natural Science's curator of entomology, Nancy Greig. "They're neat," Greig said. "Only 12 out of 4,000 are pests." Ah, well, good. But why are those 12 always in our apartment? >> Perry: We need more...

Amateur entomologists may finally have a financial incentive for keeping their creepy little friends around, or in this case, trading them in. The Houston Museum of Natural History is offering cold hard Cash for Cockroaches with the goal of collecting 1,000 of our twitchy little house mates for the New Brown Hall of Entomology. Admittedly, 25 cents a pop may not be enough to lure one away from a career in investment banking, but...

We can only surmise that the Keebler Elf is having a coronary at the very thought of crickets or, worse, cockroaches on a lovely, buttery cracker. How about "Three Bee Salad" or "Pest-o"? Have we piqued your curiousity, or put you off of your next meal? The Houston Zoo is hosting "From Soup to Gnats: The Essentials of Bug Cookery" on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. featuring insect chef and author David...

Let it never be said that Houstonist didn't warn you about wild creatures. First we told you about bed bugs, then feral cats, then bats, bats, bats, bats and the dreaded Asian cockroach. And now, as food for weekend thought, we bring you alligators. Seems an 8-foot gator is causing some concern for people on and around Lake Houston. The reptile has been spotted near Kingwood, and one resident, Bob Rehak, snapped some shots of...

Now, seriously — is there anything better for a midweek pick-me-up than a story about flying cockroaches? We submit to you that there is not, and so we bring you information about the Asian cockroach (Blattella asahinai), which has made its way to Harris County. The Asian cockroach was first identified in Florida in 1986, and since then it's spread throughout the southeast: central and south Florida, south Georgia, southern Alabama, parts of South Carolina...