The Good Life – May-June 2018

ON THE COVER // DONALD CAREY
Cockroaches have
been around since the
time of dinosaurs!
“I like bees. You can actually
talk to them. A forager bee
will go by the flowers, get
nectar and bring it back to
the hive. It’s a really good source
of nectar, so it will go back and tell
the other bees to get to it. It will
actually do a bee dance on top of the
hive. Depending on how far it is and
the orientation of the sun, it will do a
figure eight and tell the rest of them
where to go,” Carey said. “You can
cheat. If you pick up a dead bee and
Tarantulas are the
biggest type of spider in
the world. The largest
species is the Goliath
bird-eating tarantula.
It can have a leg span
up to 11 inches!
put it on a string with a stick, you can
do the little dance on top of the hive
and send them away.”
While honeybees are beloved for
good reason, there are other, more
unlovable bugs that aren’t “as cute
as a bug in a rug.” In fact, who
really thinks bugs under rugs are
cute? You’d probably have to be an
entomologist, especially when you’re
showing pity to cockroaches. There
are various types of cockroaches, and
Carey used an entertaining analogy
to get his point across.
“In a family, you have lots of relatives.
You have a cousin, George, who is a
lush and has been married three
times. Oh, and he can’t hold down
a job. The rest of the family is fine.
Cousin George is just bad. It’s the
same way with cockroaches,” Carey
said. “There are hundreds of kinds of
cockroaches. There are just a couple
that fit into the Cousin George
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