Small yellow cockroach
The small yellow cockroach is a tiny, pale brownish-yellow cockroach, only about as long as a grain of rice. It likes to hide in the leaves, grass and pine needles on the forest floor.
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Fun facts
A baby that has just hatched is less than 2 millimetres long.
There are two subspecies, the small yellow cockroach and the even smaller least yellow cockroach.
The females are bigger than the males and have longer wings.
It has been found in gopher burrows, in marshes and in the grass behind beaches.
A tiny wasp may lay its eggs inside the cockroach's egg case.
Most asked questions about Small yellow cockroach
?Where does the small yellow cockroach live?
In the southeastern United States and Cuba, in the leaf litter of forests and scrub.
?How big is the small yellow cockroach?
Usually about 7 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cariblatta lutea
- Named by
- Saussure & Zehntner, 1893
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Ectobiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cariblatta lutea (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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