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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaberus_giganteus
Recycler
Like all roaches, these giant scavengers are omnivores: they will eat almost anything, including dead animals and plants, and even bat poop (guano).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Museum_of_Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature; Ottawa, Ontario.
Periplaneta sp.
Body length: 30 mm
I've not posted in a while since I've been working hard on a photo exhibition (up and running until March 13th March 31 (extended!) at "Aquaria water museum" in Stockholm).
This large cockroach appeared one day, seemingly out of nowhere, in my son's toy collection. He has a couple of plastic "cockroach replicas" so he seemed quite surprised when one of them had suddenly come to life.
This is not a Swedish species but something that has been introduced from warmer regions. I strongly suspect it came as a bonus when I borrowed a digital projector. The projector bag was a large padded thing with lots of creases and pockets for the cockroach to hide in.
168 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker (PMAX). Shot at f3.5 but with the last 10 stopped down to f11 for a more natural transition to out of focus.
Optics: Bellows mounted and reversed Schneider Kreuznach Apo-Componon 40mm f2.8 HM.
Lighting: Two LED spots (IKEA's "Jansjö")
Larger view recommended!
Location: Selangor, Malaysia
Lowland
This is my 2nd time seeing this cutie, the size of watermelon seed.
Blattella asahinai
These guys look like the German cockroach that invades homes, but these prefer the outdoors. That is one way you tell them apart it seems. The other ways are that they are attracted to light and fly. These guys are helpful to farmers as pest killers.
This guy has a very special reproductive behaviour. After she has selected the cockroach of its choice. The wasp would then surgically and strategically stings this baby to paralyse and turning it into a host for her offspring to feed on.
size : 20mm
No wonder these folks always hang around dustbins and rubbish dumps where there is a plentiful supply of their prey.
Looks like she is dressed in a shiny green body armour.
@bt panjag, sg
Lately have came to know the cockroach has just revealed another secret to the researchers. Its amazing reproductive rate suggest that they ought to be great fuckers, making love all the time. But in reality, the truth is far from it. In fact the female only mate once in its entire life. Its possess a very special ability to store and maintain healthy sperm in its body. This unique behaviour allows the female to fertilize the eggs herself without the need to seek the help of a mate. Thus allowing the reproductive cycle to takes place anytime anywhere anyhow.
No wonder they just simply can't be eliminated. Their hardiness is another major contributing factor to their survival.
Not only they are able to withstand the most extreme weather condition they are also able to withstand extremely high level of harmful radiation which most living things can't.
These fuckers is probably the only creature to emerge unscathed after a nuclear holocaust broke out on earth where all humans and along with the plants and animals that we are associated with are completely wipe out.
Hmmm...that makes me wonder if one day we are able to make them surrender their blueprint of their unique properties we might be able to survive a little bit longer here on mother earth.
One thing for sure I won't adapt from them if I'm a female is their sexual behaviour kind of boring.....
probably
Ellipsidion sp.
Family: Ectobiidae
Order: Blattodea
Cockroaches can be mistaken for beetles but are in the order Blattodea (rather than the order Coleoptera). Unlike beetles, which have hard elytra or wing covers, cockroach wing covers are soft and flexible. Cockroaches tend to have longer antennae and legs than beetles.
Like termites, which are also in the order Blattodea, cockroaches exhibit "incomplete" metamorphesis or hemimetabolous metamorphesis. In this type of development, the juvenile form is called a nymph. The life cycle is egg, nymph, adult. There can be several stages in the nymph develpoment and these are called instars. (For insects that have 'complete' metamorphesis, or holometabolous metamorphesis, the juvenile form is called a larva. The life cycle for holometabolous metamorphesis is: egg, larva, pupa, adult. The term 'instar' is also used for the development stages of holometabolous insects.)
There are 450 described species of cockroach in Australia - a good proportion of the 4000 species that are known in the world. Very few are pests to humans.
In this photo, we have a tiny nymph feeding on a flower.
The protrusions at the pesterior end of the abdomen are circi: sensory organs with a similar function to antenae in sensing vibrations.
Dorsal view from a German cockroach ( Blattella germanica )
shot based on 47 exposures stacked at f5.6, exp.time 1.3sec, ISO200 in Zerene Stacker
The scene lit by a plastic diffused yong nuo 460 II flash
SMC Pentax-M 28mm F/2.8 | Asahi Pentax Auto Bellows M | Canon 5d Mark II
This is a huge wasp about 2cm in length, in full shiny armor ready to pound on any cockroach she can find
@bt panjang, SG
I always find these fellas hanging around my neighborhood dustbins. The reason is that these are no ordinary insects; they are cockroach hunters, one of the most highly specialized killing machines ever designed by mother nature through her rigorous process of evolution.
The secret lies in its bizarre reproductive life cycle. The moment when a female is ready to deliver her eggs, she first seeks her victim/host which is none other than a sexy looking well fed cockroach.
Once the target is located, she immediately goes into action by delivering the first injection (sting) to the cockroach's neck. This soon paralyzes its legs and puts it into a more manageable state where she can then deliver the second dose of venom. This sting would be directly to the head (brain) with surgical precision. Every step has to be precisely controlled in order to achieve the desired effect. Too much venom or venom to the wrong part, and the poor cockroach dies too soon, or the wasp dies from exhaustion.
Then comes to the most interesting part, with just the correct amount of venom injected into its brain, not only is the cockroach's escape instinct permanently disabled, but the victim also (slowly but surely) turns into some kind of zombie that obeys the wasp's every instruction.
Next, the wasp pulls the cockroach by its antennae and leads the victim to her burrow. There, she lays a fertilized egg on the cockroach's body, leaves the burrow, and seals the entrance. The egg will hatch after a few days and the larva would then feed on the still living cockroach until it's ready to exit the burrow as a fully grown wasp to start this unique behavior and reproductive cycle once again. (if it's a female; I guess all the male does is diligently take part in the mating process…* which is not bad after all)
closeup view :
www.flickr.com/photos/lonesomecrow/5994339206/in/photolis...
Hope I can capture the complete sequence one day.
Lately have came to know the cockroach has just revealed another secret to the researchers. Its amazing reproductive rate suggest that they ought to be great fuckers, making love all the time. But in reality, the truth is far from it. In fact the female only mate once in its entire life. Its possess a very special ability to store and maintain healthy sperm in its body. This unique behaviour allows the female to fertilize the eggs herself without the need to seek the help of a mate. Thus allowing the reproductive cycle to takes place anytime anywhere anyhow.
No wonder they just simply can't be eliminated. Their hardiness is another major contributing factor to their survival.
Not only they are able to withstand the most extreme weather condition they are also able to withstand extremely high level of harmful radiation which most living things can't.
These fuckers are probably the only creatures to emerge unscathed after a nuclear holocaust when all humans and along with the plants and animals that we are associated with are completely wipe out.
Hmmm...that makes me wonder if one day we are able to make them surrender their blueprint of their unique properties we might be able to survive a little bit longer here on mother earth.
One thing for sure I won't adapt from them if I'm a female is their sexual behaviour kind of boring.....
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.
Designed by Robert J. Lang, folded by me from 1 uncut 30cm square of the same bread wrapping paper I used for my alamo stallion
Try as I might I couldn't get a decent shot of it! Each time I got it on my hand, it ran straight back off of it, and on the ground, it ran like the clappers! So this was all I managed!! Still lovely to see in any case!
Sainte-Marie du Ménez-Hom - Finistère
Found on Hilltop Rd bibbulmun track just southwest of Hilltop Lookout, ESE of Walpole. Western Australia, Australia.
Bark Cockroach - Laxta sp.? Found under bark of log/fallen tree in tingle and karri forest.
Found in this general vicinity: 34.98544S 116.76392E.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
Unidentified cockroach. Selangor, Malaysia.
More cool roaches of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/10/cockroaches-are-cool.html
Cockroach ver2.6
Design by Shūsaku Uto
Cp : www.flickr.com/photos/124764964@N05/16036547980/in/faves-...
Madagascar hissing cockroach
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_hissing_cockroach
Nikon 200mm f/4 ED-IF AF Micro-NIKKOR
This cockroach was in full sun on the steps to our apartment complex in Olhão - possibly the most cockroach-unfriendly conditions one could find. I've no idea how in got there - possibly fell out of one of the cleaners' trollies that were bounced up and down the steps at frequent intervals. Needless to say I kept a careful eye inside the apartment in case it had friends.
This pretty cockroach was wandering around on the ground.
Possibly a Desmozosteria elongata. It is similar to several Anamesia species.
Photo: Jean