Pacific beetle cockroach
The Pacific beetle cockroach is a cockroach that looks a bit like a beetle. It is one of the very few cockroaches that give birth to live babies instead of laying eggs. The mother even makes a kind of milk to feed them.
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Fun facts
Its milk is made of tiny crystals and is very rich in food.
The grown-ups can squirt a stinky chemical from little holes on their sides to keep enemies away.
Its babies have no wings, but the grown-ups do.
The male is smaller than the female.
Most asked questions about Pacific beetle cockroach
?Do cockroaches make milk?
This one does. The mother makes a rich milk to feed her babies while they grow inside her.
?Is the Pacific beetle cockroach harmful?
No. It is harmless to people, but it can squirt a stinky liquid at animals that attack it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diploptera punctata
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Blaberidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Diploptera punctata (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 Peterwchen. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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