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Where did the "Prussians" go?

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bsm, 20.09.2007 0:20

A question from botanists to entomologists.
The other day at work during a lunch chat, we found out one interesting fact. It turned out that everyone noticed the disappearance of the Prussians (sorry, I don't know Latin shuffle.gif). Moreover, we estimated that for about a year and a half we have been observing them once or twice a month. Previously, they used to go in droves (herds, ...), because there is a lot of food: we sit in the herbarium (they were very well bred in the unbroken herbarium), and we eat there. Previously, they were regularly poisoned at our institute, but they were not bred for years, and then they themselves disappeared. Moreover, as it turned out, the same thing has been noticed for two years by friends in Kiev (we ourselves are from the east of Ukraine). By the way, the same is observed in residential buildings.
Is this a trend, however, or just a fluctuating population? confused.gif

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20.09.2007 8:58, sealor

Here was the topic:
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...опали++тараканы

In general, this is not a growth trend, it's like a" Rats run from the ship " wink.gifjoke, but in every joke..
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04.10.2007 16:21, Алексей Яковлев

So I ask everyone, where did the Prussians from Moscow go? And in their native Khabarovsk, they are no longer there... It's kind of weird. Even 10 years ago, they were running around in hordes. Now-not a single one!!! I think some cockroach immunodeficiency virus is eating them smile.gif

04.10.2007 17:01, amara

I know only one virus detected in a Prussian (?), by the way, by the guys from Moscow.
Take a look at Pubmed, for example:

Mukha DV, Chumachenko AG, Dykstra MJ, Kurtti TJ, Schal C.
Characterization of a new densovirus infecting the German cockroach, Blattella germanica.
J Gen Virol. 2006 Jun;87(Pt 6):1567-75.

They also have works in Russian.

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