Brown-banded cockroach
The brown-banded cockroach is a small, light brown cockroach with two pale stripes across its back. It likes warm homes and hides from the light. You might find it in a bedroom or living room rather than in the kitchen.
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Fun facts
The male's wings cover his whole body, but the female's wings are shorter and she looks wider.
It needs less water than many other cockroaches, so it can live in dry rooms like bedrooms.
It likes it warm, between about 25 and 33 degrees.
It is one of the newest cockroaches to settle in Britain and Ireland.
Scientists like to study it to learn how cockroaches find each other with smells.
Most asked questions about Brown-banded cockroach
?Where do brown-banded cockroaches live?
In warm homes and apartments, often in bedrooms and living rooms. They hide from the light during the day.
?How big is a brown-banded cockroach?
About 1 to 1.4 centimetres long.
?How can you recognise a brown-banded cockroach?
Look for two pale bands across its light brown back.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Supella longipalpa
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Ectobiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Ectobiidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Brown-banded cockroach (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 unknown author. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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