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goblinbeetle · 9 months

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antiqueanimals · 2 months

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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

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1.) House cricket (Acheta domesticus)

2.) German cockroach (Blattella germanica)

3.) Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis)

4.) American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

#bugs #insects #crickets #house cricket #cockroaches #german cockroach #oriental cockroach #american cockroach

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dreamingofthesevenseas · 1 month

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hey can i get those five species of cockroaches listed. i was gonna leave it at that but it seems you are a cockroach main so a top 5 list might be more interesting if possible

Omg thanks for asking me about roaches 🥺 and sorry for taking that long to answer your ask but I just couldn't throw a list without at least giving some information about those wonderful little creatures that are cockroaches! I absolutely love roaches, they are so smart, so interesting, so adorable (their eyes shaped like beans!!!).

5- American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)

Of course, our iconic roach, maybe the first one that come into your mind when someone says "cockroach", is on the list.

American Cockroaches have one of the greatest capacity of adaptability in the entire animal kingdom (even if we wrongly think they can survive a nuclear explosion). For example, cockroaches loves sugar! But noticing that a lot of traps against them are made with sugar, they are changing their diet to eat less to not at all sweet food, to the point females will refuse to mate with a male who is often eating sugar. This is not specific to this species but I still wanted to tell (because that's pretty interesting).

Another amazing thing I wanted to talk about is how cockroaches manage to defend themselves against predators like the emerald wasps. They turn around and hit it with their rear paws, just like on the video ↓

https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Material_for_How_Not_to_Be_Turned_into_a_Zombie/7270961?file=13397696

4/ ember wood cockroach (Ectobius vittiventris)

This one is in my top 5 for emotional reasons 🥺. There are plenty of them in my garden so I can observe them and interact better with them than any other species of cockroaches. I played with one of them once.

Have you ever see a cockroach pooping? Because I do. One of this bad boi pooped on me once. I had a wood roach resting on my arm when suddenly it started walking around. When it stoped it bended its body and I was like "woah! Cockroaches can sit!?" Until I noticed a black dot....

3/ question mark cockroach (Therea Olegrandjeani)

Ok I'll be honest with you. I don't really have anything to say about them other than are very pretty...

But did you know the dots on its back only appear after the last moult? The juveniles are all dark brown before becoming adults.

https://youtu.be/Y1eiszrsWto?si=LiaGahUOEi63PQng

2/ Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa)

They are call like that because of the hissing sound they make to frighten predators since they are a wingless species.

The females of this species carry their ootheca (sort of bag with eggs in it some female cockroaches and mantis carry at the end of their abdomen) internally, making the eggs hatching inside the mother (this is called ovoviviparity). The nymphs stay close to their parents for protection and to be fed.

1/ Emerald Cockroach (Corydidarum magnifica)

Of course, the emerald cockroach would be the first on list! Look at them, they are beautiful! You can easily recognise the male from the female since he is the one who got wings. One thing I love about cockroaches is when the males and females look drastically different from each other.

Just like the hissing roach, this species too have its nymphs formed inside the mother for 4 to 6 months. Once born, they will hide under their mother to be fed and protected. Then, the nymphs will explore their environment while staying close to their parents, most of the time they will hide under the mother but it's not rare to see them hiding under males.

https://youtu.be/KzRJhpowB4A?si=N9gvkPysLbvW0Ard

(The video is in french but you can just read the pinned comment which have an English citation about what's happening)

#i hope everything make sense English is not my first language #entomology #cockroach #dreaming ask #american cockroach #ember wood cockroach #question mark cockroach #hissing cockroach #emerald cockroach #cockroaches are the best insects in the world and nothing can change my mind

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justgoji · 3 months

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Cockroaches and mantises are related right

#american cockroach #carolina mantis #insect #insects #invertebrates #digital doodle #digital doodles #shitpost

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botherbug · 7 months

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Cockroaches jumping and flying! source.

And then extra gif of cleaning. source.

#stim #stimboard #bugs #cockroach #roaches #insects #jumping #slow motion #cleaning #wings #brown #purple #orange #biege #american cockroach #german cockroach #smokybrown cockroach #myposts #mygifs

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psyrapmafia · 1 year

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new oc for the RCF, a mafia that needs fliers on their goon roster but wont hire avians.

#cockroach #american cockroach #anthro cockroach #anthro roach #anthro bug #anthro insect #flying cockroach #uzi #uzi gun #goon oc #goon ocs #bug oc #bug ocs #insect oc #insect ocs

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thefishdeath · 2 months

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Walked into the garage to get some ice cream and locked eyes with the fattest juiciest cockroach ever that then stood up on its hind legs and told me it was gonna fuck my mom personally I hate this fucking state

#was NOT letting that thang in my house #cockroaches #my southern girlies you get me #im looking at you #Texas #louisiana #just fishdeath-ing #american cockroach

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oca-rinn-a · 9 months

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had a full on falling-apart of my brain at 4am, trying to muster the will and plan how to contain a roach (American),

so naturally as soon as i wake up i read the creature's full wikipedia page.

#i succeeded in containment #but i had to leave him under a cup on the floor #i had to go to sleep #the task sapped all my energy #now he's just over there #under the cup #and i'm so afraid of him for no reason!#it's the wings actually mostly #cockroach #american cockroach #roach #Periplaneta americana #why do they have to have wings #he was just minding his business exploring my bathroom #being entirely harmless #poor guy spent the night under a cup #phobia #roach phobia

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gelatocircus · 2 years

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I really like character design, Mega Man and Bugs.

So here’s two funky guys that combine all of those.

#bug #american cockroach #luna moth #megaman #Mega Man #mega man classic #classic mega man #mega man fanart #mega man fan character #Mega Man OC #robot master oc

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porkbeverage · 2 years

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AGHGTCSTVSTG COCKROACH WITH A HEART ON ITS THORAX

#bugs #insects #cockroach #American cockroach #image is from Getty images

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skuaspestcontrol · 3 months

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#termite inspection #termite control #rodent #termiteprevention #termite #rats #general pest control #pest control #american cockroach #mosquito control

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idontthinkimokaymentally · 6 months

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Hello there Chiyuri Haijima fans.

#chiyuri haijima #american cockroach #wamongokiburi #arachnid

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stampyyop · 2 years

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#cockroach #cockroach nest #german cockroach #american cockroach #how to find cockroach nest #cockroach kill #cockroach pest control

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tylervcr · 5 days

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sad rn cus my fav bugs are the most hated

#bugs #bug #hissing cockroach #madagascar hissing cockroach #millipede #i dont fw american cockroaches though #tarantula #forgot to add that

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 8 months

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#Joe's Apartment #Joe's Apartment (1996)#90's #90s #1996 #gif #gifs #my gif #my edit #cockroach #American musical black comedy film #musical black comedy film

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tigirl-and-co · 2 days

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I definitely vastly prefer book covers that depict scenery from the world of the book or a far-away painting of an important scene in dramatic colours to book covers that are just like. Here's a character. Maybe they're doing something idk

#titi talks #i saw somebody say the french covers of the underland chronicles were better so i looked at em #and i'm like no???? those are mid at BEST #the first run of american curse of the warmbloods has a big bucking scary lizard #peering out from the jungle and looming over some bones and it rules hard and is very cohesive #and the next cover has an impressionistic painting of the ant army scene in teal and red #it's SO DOPE #the french cover has like. white boy. anthro rat. cockroach. they are standing back to back vaguely emoting at some beagle-sized ants #SORRY TO RANT lmao i just have very strong opinions #baby me probably would not have ever picked up the series we had the french covers #instead of that BEAUTIFUL painting of regalia

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