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After a cockroach molts, the exterior body will look white, until the cockroach has time to develop its darker coloring.
Saw this out in the garden, still a horrible insect.
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Photo made by Yashica Matt 6x6 analogue B&W around 1976.
Negative scanned and processed in Lightroom.
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks. Their elongated bodies may or may not have wings, but all Mantodea have forelegs that are greatly enlarged and adapted for catching and gripping prey; their upright posture, while remaining stationary with forearms folded, has led to the common name praying mantis.
The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (Blattodea), which are all within the superorder Dictyoptera. Mantises are sometimes confused with stick insects (Phasmatodea), other elongated insects such as grasshoppers (Orthoptera), or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies (Mantispidae). Mantises are mostly ambush predators, but a few ground-dwelling species are found actively pursuing their prey. They normally live for about a year. In cooler climates, the adults lay eggs in autumn, then die. The eggs are protected by their hard capsules and hatch in the spring. Females sometimes practice sexual cannibalism, eating their mates after copulation.
Mantises were considered to have supernatural powers by early civilizations, including Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, and Assyria. A cultural trope popular in cartoons imagines the female mantis as a femme fatale. Mantises are among the insects most commonly kept as pets.
Los Angeles. California.
forest cockroach or lesser cockroach
Dunkle oder Echte Waldschabe
[Ectobius sylvestris] ♂
(explored 18.02.2023)
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HMM! Ukraine Matters! Resist the Despicable Orange Cockroach Poo Tin Puppet!
Zen magnolia, 'Pink Parchment', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
A nice greenly coloured individual of Knobbly Margined Cockroach from the South Australian Mallee. This species seemingly varies from quite metallic to more matte appearance, but always has numerous raised bumps and ridges.
There are more than 4500 species of cockroach. Of those, only a couple dozen species are associated with people, and really only about four kinds are pests. Most just wander around in the forest, nibbling on dead leaves and fungus and stuff. Recycling, really. This is a non-pesky, well-armored, cool-looking one from Madagascar. I think it's kind of pretty, all shiny like it's made of patent-leather.(unknown sp., Andasibe, Madagascar)
Some recent sketchbook drawings.
This is a Hissing cockroach. When my son was younger we had several as pets. They really are quite friendly.
Pen and ink
'One student with a bright future! Or the five old geezers and grannies in this car! Which will you save?'
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That one devil from Chainsaw Man part 2, made in one day for the fun of it :)
In Australian slang or perhaps colloquialisms, especially in sport, Queenslanders are known as "Cane Toads" and New South Wales people "Cockroaches". Other states have different names again, for example Western Australians are known as "Sand Gropers". The Qld/NSW names become prominent particularly during the rivalry between states in the Rugby League State of Origin series.
This shot is of the Wallangarra station which sits on the border between two states and was a change of gauge station, therefore change of trains from Queensland's 3 foot 6 inch to NSW's 4 foot 8 1/2 inch. When the more direct semi-coastal route via Kyogle was opened between Brisbane and Sydney, trains via the Wallangarra route to between the capital cities were basically superseded and both lines became of local importance only until closed or more or less moth balled. The line up from Sydney is now closed and only goes as far as Armidale and the line from Brisbane, while still nominally open only sees occasional heritage trains operate from Warwick and less so, Brisbane.
The border actually crosses the platform diagonally but this side features in situ but closed NSW tracks. The Queensland tracks are on the other side of the platform and the goods interchange yard is behind me. Over to the right is the small NSW town of Jennings and its pub (photo posted in the last fortnight) while to the left is the small Qld town of Wallangarra. This view looks north into Queensland.
The railways station is also the site of a lovely cafe and small museum. The link to the wikipedia article below explains the history of the station and the lines.
Found on the fly wire door on the outside of my patio. Some wonderful patterns on the back of this insect. Not a native Cockroach but different from the big black ones occasionally found inside at this time of year. German cockroach (Blattella germanica)
Sand cockroach females are wingless and live underground - I found this one near Palm Desert, California, under a fallen branch in a desert wash.
a beautiful Lesser Cockroach from the Firehills of Hastings Country Park - three were found today in the area of recent habitat work, old single-age gorse was removed to allow the regeneration of maritime heathland, species count is showing improvement.
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This Ensign Wasp in the family Evaniidae was filmed in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. The black abdomen (metasoma) moves up and down as if signalling with a flag, which gave rise to the common name ensign wasp. They are completely harmless to humans and actually are beneficial since they lay an egg in the egg cases of cockroaches and the hatched wasp larva feeds on the roach eggs.
Hey there! It's me,pudin!I like fish,finger is my sausage, cockroach is my best friend, bed is my toilet & i like to play wrestling with paper
This is a male Bark Cockroach -Laxta granicollis - an Australian native species, about 2.5cm long. It was on our kitchen window at night recently.
Many people don't realise that Britain has a few native species of cockroach. They are all small & mostly limited to the south coast counties. Lesser cockroach is the smallest of them, males averaging 7mm long & females just 6mm. Coastal shingle is a known habitat for them & it was nice to turn a few up under the pebbles. They are the first native cockroaches I've ever seen.
Aproximadamente 1,7X y 130 fotos con el canon MP-E 65 mm.
Mi mujer no la soporta, pero a mí me parece un bicho como pocos.
La voy a hacer copia y la pondré en donde no quiera que pase jajaja.
Unidentified cockroach. Selangor, Malaysia.
More cool roaches of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/10/cockroaches-are-cool.html