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Cockroaches (or roaches [2] [3] [4] ... Cockroaches have incomplete metamorphosis, meaning that the nymphs are generally similar to the adults, except for undeveloped ...
La Cucaracha ("The Cockroach") is a popular folk song about a cockroach who cannot walk. The song's origins are Spanish, [1] but it became popular in the 1910s during the Mexican Revolution. [2] The modern song has been adapted using the Mexican corrido genre. [2] The song's melody is widely known [2] and there are many alternative stanzas. [2]
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) is the largest species of common cockroach, and often considered a pest. In certain regions of the U.S. it is colloquially known as the waterbug, [1] though it is not a true waterbug since it is not aquatic. It is also known as the ship cockroach, kakerlac, and Bombay canary. [2]
The findings span thousands of years of cockroach history and suggest the pests may have scuttled across the globe by hitching a ride with another species: people. How cockroaches spread around ...
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 ...
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites. [3] Formerly, termites were considered a separate order, Isoptera, but genetic and molecular evidence suggests they evolved from within the cockroach lineage, cladistically making them cockroaches as well. [4]
The origin of these groups from a blattopteran stock are now generally thought to be in the Early Jurassic; the earliest modern cockroaches appeared during the Late Jurassic. [6] Thus, the “Palaeozoic cockroaches” are not cockroaches per se, but a paraphyletic assemblage of primitive relatives. [7]
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον diktyon "net" and πτερόν pteron "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) [1] and the order Mantodea (mantises).