Virginia wood cockroach
The Virginia wood cockroach is a small cockroach about one centimetre long. It does not want to live in houses at all. It lives outside in the woods, under fallen leaves and in rotting wood.
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Fun facts
The boys have full wings and are orange brown.
The girls have only short wings and are rusty brown to almost black.
It needs damp places. If it wanders into a house, it cannot survive there because the air is too dry.
Grown-ups and older babies usually have a dark head.
Most asked questions about Virginia wood cockroach
?Is the Virginia wood cockroach a house pest?
No. It sometimes wanders inside, but the air in houses is too dry for it to live there.
?Where does the Virginia wood cockroach live?
Outside in forests, in leaf litter and rotting wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parcoblatta virginica
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Ectobiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Parcoblatta virginica (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 Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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