Possible Wood Cockroach

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Copyright © 2012 Roy Cohutta Brown

Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, USA
April 18, 2012

This insect was still alive. I believe the Bluebird was waiting for it to stop kicking. The predator is a wild bird. I shot this image at 550mm focal length. It is very enlarged. I did what I could to keep the grain to a minimum.

I am thinking this may be a Wood Cockroach, possibly a nymph or a female, as it resembles Parcoblatta sp.:

Click to see larger image of this male Bluebird and this prey item on my Flickr page:

Contributed by Roy Cohutta Brown on 18 April, 2012 - 1:45pm
Last updated 16 June, 2020 - 11:54am

Frassed

Moved from Cockroaches and Termites.

… Blaine Mathison, 16 June, 2020 - 11:54am

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… John Carlson, 9 May, 2012 - 1:08am

Nice picture

I won't be able to help you with an identification- brown cockroach nymphs are difficult to nail down. But I would like to add one of the images to the cockroach info page. At the bottom there is a section on predators. The other two versions may end up in frass because they won't be identifiable, but I would like to keep this one for the depiction of predation.

… John Carlson, 9 May, 2012 - 1:05am

Nymph.

Cockroach *nymph* of some kind.

… Eric R. Eaton, 18 April, 2012 - 5:15pm

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