Smoky brown cockroach
The smoky brown cockroach is a big, shiny cockroach, all one dark brown colour. It has wings and likes warm, damp places. It mostly comes out in the evening, when the air is moist.
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Fun facts
It dries out twice as fast as the American cockroach, so it needs damp places to live.
It does not like the cold. In chilly weather it may move inside houses to stay warm.
It lays its eggs in a hard brown case about as long as a fingernail.
A female can sometimes have babies even without a male.
It mostly lives around the outside walls of buildings.
Most asked questions about Smoky brown cockroach
?Can smoky brown cockroaches fly?
Yes, it has wings and is a good flier.
?Where do smoky brown cockroaches live?
Outside around buildings in warm, damp places, but it may come inside to find food or stay warm.
?How big is a smoky brown cockroach?
About 3 to 3.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Periplaneta fuliginosa
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Blattidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Blattidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Europe
- Also known as
- Smokybrown cockroach
Where the facts come from
- Smokybrown 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 Toby Hudson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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