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Ectobius vittiventris, the amber wood cockroach or amber forest cockroach, is a species belonging to the order Blattodea and is a type of wood cockroach originally from southern Europe. It is completely harmless to humans and is not a storage pest , as it only feeds on decomposing plant material and perishes within a few days in human dwellings ...
This cockroach is similar in appearance to the American cockroach (P. americana), but darker in color and with thicker, wider, triangular cerci. It is a reddish-brown color and has fully developed wings. [2] It reaches up to 4 centimeters in length. [1] It produces an ootheca about 1.2 to 1.6 centimeters long containing about 24 eggs on average ...
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]
The Florida woods cockroach (Eurycotis floridana) is a large cockroach species which typically grows to a length of 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in). [2] When alarmed, adults can eject an extremely foul-smelling directional spray up to one metre (3.3 ft), [3] which inspired several of its other common names: Florida skunk roach, Florida stinkroach, skunk cockroach, skunk roach, stinking cockroach ...
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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 ...
The brown-banded cockroach (Supella longipalpa) [1] is a species of small cockroach, measuring about 10 to 14 mm long and the most well-known in the genus Supella. It is tan to light brown and has two light-colored bands across the wings and abdomen , which may sometimes appear to be broken or irregular but are quite noticeable.
The Pennsylvania wood cockroach has three developmental stages: egg, nymph, and adult. Eggs are laid in egg capsules, produced during the warm months and deposited behind the loose bark of dead trees, fallen logs, or stumps. Egg capsules are yellowish brown and characteristically curved on both sides like a half moon.