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smarties & cockroaches
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Personally I don't eat Smarties anyway, as I know too much about Nestl� (type "nestle, ethics" into Google).
Incidentally, the cochineal insect is a true bug, not a cockroach. Bug here is in the British sense meaning an insect in the order Hemiptera (aphids, cicadas, shield bugs, froghoppers, water-scorpions, water-boatmen etc), not the American one meaning any old creepy-crawly. It is a scale-insect (Dactylopius coccus) which lives on cacti. For example, see:
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/homopt~1.html and scan down to "soft scale-insects".
Cockroaches are in the order Dyctyoptera (also including mantises), which is related to the orders containing grasshoppers, crickets, termites, stick-insects etc. See:
http://www.earthlife.net/insects/dictyopt.html
I wonder what the veggie anti-red-Smartie brigade do about the blackfly on their broad beans...?
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