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Studying cockroaches

Video presented by George Beccaloni

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Museum cockroach expert George Beccaloni talks about the huge variety of cockroaches that exist, shows you some live specimens and explains his work on the first online database of the world's cockroaches, the Blattodea Species File Online (BSF).

  • Presented by: George Beccaloni
  • Date: 30 July 2007
  • Duration: 3:56

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