Roaches

The Peak District colony is descended from a collection kept by landowner Captain Courtney Brocklehurst which were released into an area known as The Roaches, on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border.

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Roaches come from trees and are brownish instead of shiny black and also REALLY HUGE*!

Australia/New Zealand versus the USA: amusing differences karenhealey 2010

Roaches were more able to run through and under flame, but it wouldn't much matter when the house was gone.

All God's Creatures Oliver Hunt 2011

It must, then, be an accidental moor fire, like the one that engulfed part of The Roaches earlier this spring.

Country diary: East Cheshire Hills 2011

Roaches the size of small rodents sometimes amble across the tile floor, giving me the frightening impression that they have large and complex brains.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

Roaches the size of small rodents sometimes amble across the tile floor, giving me the frightening impression that they have large and complex brains.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

Roaches the size of small rodents sometimes amble across the tile floor, giving me the frightening impression that they have large and complex brains.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

Roaches that size are practically an institution here.

Australia/New Zealand versus the USA: amusing differences karenhealey 2010

Roaches live in the pantry and go to the bathroom in your food.

Ben H. Winters: In Defense of Bedbugs Ben H. Winters 2011

Some of the past reports of climbers on The Roaches pulling over the top of the crag to be confronted by a camel or a brown bear may be apocryphal, but there's no doubt about the presence of wallabies and various deer species on these tawny moors.

Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010