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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blaberoidea » Ectobiidae » Blattellinae » Wood Cockroaches (Parcoblatta) » Virginia Wood Cockroach (Parcoblatta virginica)
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Adult female with ootheca - Parcoblatta virginica - female
Copyright © 2010 Vespula Vulgaris

Adult female with ootheca - Parcoblatta virginica - Female
Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
Size: 13 mm
What's going on here? How could she be reproducing without a male?

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Contributed by Vespula Vulgaris on 10 March, 2010 - 5:58am
Last updated 1 October, 2014 - 7:58am

Moved
Moved from Virginia Wood Cockroach.
… Alan Jeon, 1 October, 2014 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Virginia Wood Cockroach.
… Alan Jeon, 1 October, 2014 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Wood Cockroaches.
… Alan Jeon, 1 October, 2014 - 7:58am login or register to post comments

Ootheca
Either this species can reproduce through parthenogenesis (not uncommon) or the eggs will not hatch because the eggs were not fertilized. As usual, I am interested to see what happens. Sooner or later we'll figure out what species this is for sure, and these images will be very useful for documenting behavior and life history. Make a note of how long the ootheca is carried, and how long it takes to hatch once it is deposited. Keep up the good work!
… John Carlson, 10 March, 2010 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

 
I think they are Parcoblatta
I think they are Parcoblatta virginica. I am breeding Parcoblatta I caught in the NC right now. I have P. bolliana, P. uhleriana and an unidentified species of Parcoblatta kind of like P. fulvescens. Also I have caught a Parcoblatta similar in size to P. bolliana that I guess are P. virginica.

Nathaniel Long
… Walter Nathaniel Long, 23 January, 2014 - 9:39pm login or register to post comments

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