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Wood Roach? - Pycnoscelus surinamensis

Wood Roach? - Pycnoscelus surinamensis
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
July 7, 2008
Size: inch
Found on side of church where we were making repairs. What's with the thing on the posterior?

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This is an adult Surinam cockroach. Looks like debris stuck to the posterior, not part of the insect, certainly.

 
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Thanks a lot Eric.

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