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This interesting looking fella is a Pale Bordered Field Cockroach, or Pseudomops septentrionalis. It's also known as a firefly roach, for pretty obvious reasons!
I spotted this guy among the Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) in the rewilding section a few days back. These guys are rather fancy looking for a cockroach, and he caught my eye immediately! I thought I had spotted the worlds largest firefly, but quickly realized my mistake when I focused in.
Interesting thing I wanna point out; check out those spikes on his legs! They are known as tibial setae, and his are rather impressive. They remind me of my lynx spiders (Peucetia viridans) and their defenses.
This shot was captured at 1:! with my Vivitar (Komine) 90mm f2.8 Macro. This photo is uncropped. This fancy fella is around 16mm long.
Sony A7rii
Tamron 180mm @ 1.2x
1/2 sec exposure @ f8 ISO 100
Wemacro rail 175 exposures @ 200um increments
stacked with Snapfuse
Here is a cool, cute little bug from the Mojave Desert yesterday, spotted by a friend when he turned over a chunk of a fallen Joshua tree limb. It's a female sand cockroach (family Corydiidae). Females are wingless and roundish, kinda like an isopod (roly-poly/pillbug), and burrow in the sand. Males fly & look like small "regular" roaches. They don't bother people or try to enter homes. Like the vast majority of cockroach species, they stay outside and live their best bug life, nibbling detritus and minding their own business. This one was the size of a black bean. Love her fancy fringe.
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!
A Cockroach.
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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.
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.
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.....
Paratropes sp. Tentative ID based on www.inaturalist.org images. Found at Finca Las Piedras, near town of Monterrey in Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru.
Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.
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.....
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
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
Being the oldest underground system in the world, you can imagine there are tons of 'things' hiding in London Tube stations.
This was taken at midnight, after coming out from Chicago (the musical). Sitting down, tired, I saw 4 little black spots crawling out from the tunnel. I thought they were big cockroaches, but no they were tiny little mouse. Freaked a few people out.
Unidentified cockroach. Selangor, Malaysia.
More cool roaches of Malaysia: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2013/10/cockroaches-are-cool.html