Q. What do Cockroaches and Mark Sanford have in common?

A. The Lure of Sex Can Drive Roaches (and Sanford) to Their Deaths (Political or otherwise)
By Karen Kaplan, Times Staff Writer
February 18, 2005

In the long and seemingly futile quest to build a better roach trap, researchers have finally identified the come-hither chemical of the female German cockroach and produced a synthetic version that makes males come running in less than nine seconds.

The search for the sex pheromone has been a top priority for cockroach scientists, but it has been an arduous process because the compound is emitted in very small quantities and is so fragile that it easily degrades during laboratory analysis.

The new synthetic version appears to work at least as well as the original, giving scientists hope that they may shift the balance of power in the age-old contest between humans and cockroaches -- creatures widely believed to be capable of surviving nuclear war.

"Chemists have been trying to get this pheromone for decades," said Wendell Roelofs, a professor of insect biochemistry at Cornell University and one of the study's authors.

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/18/local/me-cockroach18

OK, so it's old, but it still applies!

all of SC, half of NC and half of GA go.

That was the 'joke' in the Navy.

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