Trinidad bat-cave roach
The Trinidad bat-cave roach is a big cockroach, about 6 centimetres long, that lives in caves full of bats. The young ones are dark brown with yellow spots along their sides. The grown-ups have wings, but they do not fly.
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Fun facts
In one cave in Trinidad it waits buried in bat droppings with only its feelers sticking out. When the bats come home at about 3 in the morning, it climbs out to eat.
One single room of a cave in Trinidad held more than 43,000 of these cockroaches.
The young ones dig in the soil of the cave floor. When they are older, they climb up onto the rocky walls.
People keep it as food for pet lizards, frogs and tarantulas.
Its relatives can turn kitchen scraps into compost for the garden.
Most asked questions about Trinidad bat-cave roach
?How big is the Trinidad bat-cave roach?
About 6 centimetres long. The males are usually a little smaller than the females.
?Can the Trinidad bat-cave roach fly?
No. The grown-ups have wings, but they do not fly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eublaberus distanti
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Blaberidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Six-spotted cockroach, Four-spotted cockroach, Four-spot cockroach
Where the facts come from
- Eublaberus distanti (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 Ltshears. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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