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2. Tune Into the Hisses of Madagascar’s Iconic Insect - AOL

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   Madagascar hissing cockroaches are some of the largest cockroaches in the world, often reaching up to 4 inches long! And while the term “roach” my make you squeamish, these particular insects ...

3. Megaloblatta - Wikipedia

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   Species in this genus are 4 to 9.7 cm (1.6–3.8 in) long and can have a wingspan of up to 20 cm (8 in); the world's largest cockroach by length and wingspan is M. longipennis. [1] [2] [3] Megaloblatta, like many other insects, use stridulation in order to steer their predators away. [4]

4. German cockroach - Wikipedia

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   The German cockroach (Blattella germanica), colloquially known as the croton bug, is a species of small cockroach, typically about 1.1 to 1.6 cm (0.43 to 0.63 in) [1] [2] long. In color it varies from tan to almost black, and it has two dark, roughly parallel, streaks on the pronotum running anteroposteriorly from behind the head to the base of ...

5. Cockroach - Wikipedia

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   The earliest cockroach-like fossils ("blattopterans" or "roachoids") are from the Carboniferous period 320 million years ago. [12] [13] [14] Fossil roachoids are considered the common ancestor of both mantises and modern cockroaches, and are distinguished from the latter by the presence of a long external ovipositor.

6. Madagascar hissing cockroach - Wikipedia

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   The sound is produced as the insect forcefully expels air out of their specialized respiratory spiracles (orifices), mainly those that are located on the insect fourth body segment (abdomen), [4] although spiracles are found, more or less, on all segments of their abdomen. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is the only member of their group of ...

7. Therea petiveriana - Wikipedia

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   The conspicuously marked Therea cockroaches are popular as pets and easy to keep. The most commonly kept species has often been identified as T. petiveriana , but in 2009 it was instead suggested that the captive population actually belongs to a separate species, T. bernhardti , that differs primarily in the hindwings (which usually are hidden ...