Turkestan Cockroach

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Adults are around 1.2 inches (3 cm) long. The thin, brownish orange or red adult males have long, yellowish wings that help them glide and attract females. Compared to males, adult females are larger and have short vestigial wings. They are dark brown to black, with cream-colored patterns on the shield and a cream-colored stripe edging the wings. Nymphs have no wings and are black on the back and brown on the front.

The same skills as non-pest and non-invasive cockroaches. They have wings and can fly well. Since it can transport organisms that cause disease, the Turkestan cockroach, like all outdoor pest cockroaches, is considered a major nuisance as well as a possible public health hazard.

• Baking Soda and Sugar Mixture: All cockroach species will consume the poison (baking soda) and perish after being drawn to the food source (sugar).

Due in part to their inability to burrow and their inability to climb smooth surfaces, Turkestan cockroaches are occasionally maintained as pets for reptiles and other insectivores in the United States. The most common feeder insect for decades has been cockroaches since crickets are noisy, smelly, expensive, and have a limited lifespan. Turkestan cockroaches are a popular species and may be easily purchased online, which could accelerate their spread to new areas.

Despite the lack of trustworthy data regarding the precise nutritional needs of insectivores, Turkestan cockroaches offer a low-fat, high-protein diet that is more comparable to that of crickets than that of mealworm or superworm larvae. Depending on its diet, the cockroach's stomach contents may offer vital nutrients that an empty gut would not be able to supply.

Although they prefer the outdoors, Turkestan cockroaches can enter buildings in quest of water. They are unable to thrive indoors and breed and live outdoors. Even if you may discover them dead and upside-down in indoor areas like garages or next to entrances, you can be sure that Turkestan cockroaches won't establish and flourish there, despite how repulsive and shocking they may seem to you when you see them. 

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Even if these cockroaches won't flourish indoors, you can still feel considerably more at rest if you keep them out of your house. They are friendly to us.

The species can be found in northeastern Africa, the Caucasus Mountains, and central Asia. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kashmir, Libya, Palestine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Russia (adventive), and the United States (adventive) are all covered by it. Although it will live in the areas surrounding homes when shelter is available, the Turkestan cockroach is largely an outdoor insect and is not considered an aggressive inside pest like some other cockroach species, such as the German and brown-banded cockroaches.

However, in specific localities or tropical locations, it can become a significant indoor pest. Of occasional indoor interlopers, males are more commonly encountered than females, due to their ability to fly and an attraction to lights. In Arabia, it lives beneath stones in damp hollows, desert farms, and wadis, feeding primarily at night

• Movement Pattern: Not a Migrant

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Airborne

• Habitat: Taiga; Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Coniferous Forests; Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests; Temperate Deciduous Forests, Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Coniferous Forests; Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Stone Forest; Tropical Coniferous Forests; Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests; Tropical Grasslands; Tropical Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Mushroom Forests; Mushroom Fields; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands; Flooded Grasslands and Savannas; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland; Mangrove Forest; Cold Bamboo Forests; Tropical Bamboo Forests; Air-breathing Coral Reefs; Graveyard Vale; Karst Cave; Karst Spring.

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  • Extant (Resident): Afghanistan; Azerbaijan; Egypt; India; Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kashmir, Libya, Palestine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, North Sudan; South Sudan; Turkmenistan; United Arab Emirates

  • Extant & Introduced: Russia; United States

• Reinachos: 

  • Extant & Introduced: widespread

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan_cockroach

• https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/249675-Shelfordella-lateralis

• https://ipm.ucanr.edu/Invasive-and-Exotic-Pests/Turkestan-Cockroach/

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Turkestan-Cockroach-1116111514