Cockroaches

 

I had this silly idea of ​​compiling some titles with cockroaches as a subject, but as it often happens to me, the idea has already been applied. This time, it is the ubiquitous and excellent Phil Milstein who has already done it and collected 33 titles, still available here. Fairly comprehensive list. Few titles to add. Here is one by Ian and Sylvia from issued on a Columbia album 1971

Shark And The Cockroach

For those who think that cockroaches will one day inherit Planet Earth, here is some good news from The Compleat Cockroach, book by David George Gordon published in 1996:

Data from laboratory experiments seem to support the notion that cockroaches would be capable of withstanding a good-size thermonuclear blast. Such tolerances to radiation would enable cockroaches to survive the atomic bombing of Hirsohima, a blast that bathed people as far as thirteen miles from Ground Zero with cumulative doses of around 1,200 rads. 
 

That's the good news for cockroaches, and the few fatalistic souls who find cheer in the thought that insects will someday inherit the earth. The bad news, though, is that the devastation in Hiroshima was caused by a fifteen kiloton bomb  an explosive device seventy-five times less destructive than the one-megaton devices of today. (...) It is extremely unlikely that even the most firmly entrenched cockroach could withstand the radiation from such powerful blows.

P.S. ; I have this book in a pdf file. Leave a comment if you really really want it.