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Ryan - I've seen hundreds of Am cockroaches on glueboards while crawling around museums and it definitely is not an Oriental cockroach. It's too reddish brown and the yellow margins give it away. Tom Parker Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2013, at 4:50 PM, "Jones, Robert (Ryan)" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > I have never seen an American that dark – the peripheral region of the > abdomen is black. It is a tough call….check out the third picture down (right > side) on this link. > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pestlist] What is it? > > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Leslie - > > I have to disagree with Ryan. It's not an Oriental nymph; it's an American > cockroach nymph. It has turned fairly dark as it has dried out on the glue > board. The telltale ID feature is it's reddish brown, at least in the > anterior portions; the posterior has turned dark as it mummified. More > importantly look at the yellow border at the edge of the pronotum. Now > Google Oriental cockroach photos and you'll see all sorts of photos of > Orientals and Americans (plus a few PA woods roaches thrown in to boot) and > you'll see the Oriental is totally black, even the nymphs, and the American > has that yellow border around the pronotum. > > Tom Parker > -----Original Message----- > From: Leslie Skibinski <[email protected]> > To: pestlist <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, May 8, 2013 2:32 pm > Subject: [pestlist] What is it? > > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > I think it might be an Oriental Cockroach (Blatta orientalis). Am I right? > Thanks. –Leslie > > > Leslie L. Skibinski > Collection Manager of Mollusks > > Delaware Museum of Natural History > P.O. Box 3937 > 4840 Kennett Pike > Wilmington, Delaware 19807 > > Phone (302) 658-9111 ext. 311 > Fax (302) 658-2610 > [email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and > in the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to [email protected] with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and > in the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to [email protected] with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and > in the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to [email protected] with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
