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Virginia Wood Cockroach

Parcoblatta virginica

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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26 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 5, February 6, March 6, April 10, May 10, June 6, July 5, August 4, September 6, October 6, November 4, December 5.
United States691
North Carolina72
South Carolina64
Georgia63
New Jersey51
Alabama50
New York46
Massachusetts44
Virginia43
Canada38

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderCockroaches and Termites · Blattodea
FamilyBlattellidae
GenusNorth American Wood Cockroaches · Parcoblatta

Sources

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Practise Virginia Wood Cockroach with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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