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C. punctulatus is an oviparous cockroach in the family Cryptocercidae that excavates galleries in rotten wood. [6] [7] The genus Cryptocercus is closely related to termites, believed that their life habits and gut symbiosis is ancestral. [8] Both males and females are wingless, brown to black coloration, and vary in size from 23-30mm in length. [6]
Panesthia cribrata, commonly called the Australian wood cockroach, is a wood-eating species found in rotten logs. It is found from south east Queensland south to the east coast to Tasmania, also seen at Norfolk Island. [2] It depends on wood for sustenance, [3] and manufactures enzymes that digest cellulose. [4]
Cryptocercus is a genus of Dictyoptera (cockroaches and allies) and the sole member of its own family Cryptocercidae. [1] Species are known as wood roaches or brown-hooded cockroaches. These roaches are subsocial, their young requiring considerable parental interaction. They also share wood-digesting gut bacteria types with wood-eating termites ...
Panesthia lata, the Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach or Lord Howe Island cockroach, is a large, wingless cockroach species endemic to the Lord Howe Island Group in the Tasman Sea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Appearance and diet
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Houses located within woods will sometimes have wood cockroaches crawl under siding; especially homes with cedar shake shingles. To cockroaches, the house may represent a fallen tree and a new location for nesting. A wide lawn will inhibit cockroaches crawling from the surrounding woods to the house.
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For those study participants, 56% had developed sensitivities to cockroaches and 59% to mice; 36% were sensitized to dogs, 39% to cats and 35% to dust mites. About 69% had sensitivities to more ...