Dubia roach
The dubia roach is a dark brown to black cockroach with faint orange spots. The males have long wings, but the females only have tiny wing stubs. Many people keep it as food for their pet lizards, frogs and tarantulas.
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Fun facts
The mother keeps her eggs inside her body and gives birth to live babies. She can have 20 to 40 babies in a month.
It cannot climb smooth walls or glass, which makes it easy to keep in a box.
The males have big wings but almost never fly. They use them like a parachute to glide down safely.
It is much quieter than crickets and does not smell much.
It can live for up to two years.
Most asked questions about Dubia roach
?Can dubia roaches fly?
Hardly at all. The males can flutter and glide down, but they cannot fly upwards. The females cannot fly.
?Can dubia roaches climb?
No, they cannot climb smooth surfaces like glass or plastic.
?How big is a dubia roach?
A grown-up dubia roach is about 4 to 4.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Blaptica dubia
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Blaberidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Orange-spotted roach, Guyana spotted roach, Argentinian wood roach
Where the facts come from
- Blaptica dubia (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 Nicky.Animals. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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