A scientist named Marc C. Minno was organizing some files in his office last month when something odd fell out of a folder. He peered down at the floor and saw it was a small cockroach, maybe half an inch long.
At this point, most Floridians would have either squished the bug with a shoe or run screaming from the room. Not Minno. He has written several books on butterflies and moths. Bugs don't bug him.
The cockroach he saw on his office floor at the Suwannee River Water Management District in Live Oak didn't look like any of the other cockroaches he'd seen before. In describing it later, he used a word you don't normally hear associated with cockroaches:
Pretty.
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