Ben Maclennnan
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/ 8 April 2006

Cape study says roaches are top earbugs

If an insect is going to crawl into your ear while you’re sleeping, it will most likely be a cockroach, according to the South African Medical Journal. The latest edition of the journal carries a list, compiled by Cape Town doctor Gary Kroukamp and entomologist Jason Londt, of the bugs hauled out of patients’ ears over a two-year period at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital.