Best homework EVER

I'm taking a preservation class this semester and on Thursday my professor assigned the best homework I've ever been assigned.  We were given little paper sticky traps and a plastic bug cup and told to go forth and find an insect.  Each person in the class was to trap, alive or dead, a different kind of bug.  Then we study it, draw it or take a picture (guess which one I will do) and write up a little brochure on it.  In class next week we will have five minutes to present our insect.  As soon as I heard about this project, I really wanted the American Cockroach, or Periplaneta americana.  They can seriously damage books and I have had a personal vendetta/fascination with them ever since I moved here.  It was a first find, first served deal with the bugs, so I was afraid I wouldn't find one before someone else did.  I mean, they're everywhere!  Luckily nobody else in my class wanted to catch one.  I wonder why...

I found this little guy, as yet unnamed, in a box at work.  He's been dead for quite some time.  He's really dried out.  I carried him around in my purse all day.  Thank the lord the bug cup didn't come open because then I would have little dried pieces of cockroach in my purse.  Gross.