Uhler's wood cockroach
Uhler's wood cockroach lives in leafy forests in the eastern United States and Canada. The male is pale brownish yellow and flies well. The female is shiny blackish brown and cannot fly at all, because her wings are tiny.
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Fun facts
Males fly to lights at night, while females are drawn to sweet syrup.
In forests, males usually sit up on bushes, while females stay down on the ground.
The mother keeps her eggs in a little case about 6 to 9 millimetres long, with a row of tiny bumps on it.
It hides under leaves, pine needles, loose bark and in rotting logs.
It also lives in towns. In one study around houses in North Carolina, it was the cockroach caught most often.
Most asked questions about Uhler's wood cockroach
?Can Uhler's wood cockroach fly?
Only the male can fly. The female has tiny wings and stays on the ground.
?What does Uhler's wood cockroach eat?
It eats mushrooms, moss, bird droppings and other bits it finds on the forest floor at night.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parcoblatta uhleriana
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Ectobiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Parcoblatta uhleriana (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Happy1892. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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