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Do cockroaches chatter?

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Alex KNZ, 22.04.2009 18:21

smile.gif Please tell me, I have been concerned about this question for a long time. Do cockroaches chirp? Several times in my childhood I came across chirping sounds coming from under the asphalt near manholes in the yard, near houses (the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, 48 n. s.). The sounds resemble the song of the Gryllus Campestris cricket, only more muffled. But the field cricket chirps in June and early July, and I've heard this in late July and August. A couple of times I looked for what it is chirping, I thought a cricket of some kind. And I came across a bunch of cockroaches, black in color, sizes 30-35 mm.(Similar in appearance to Blatta orientalis). And there must have been some kind of sewer nearby. And last summer, on a warm night, I crossed the road at an intersection, and right on the road there was a hatch with a hole in the asphalt and those very sounds came from there. Tell me, what kind of cockroaches could it be? I haven't found anything in the literature about our singing cockroaches, except for tropical species!=)

This post was edited by Alex KNZ - 04/22/2009 18: 30

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22.04.2009 19:30, PVOzerski

It seems that the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) sings, and cockroaches are so simply present, for the company smile.gifof House crickets in the summer they often sing in St. Petersburg.
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22.04.2009 19:36, Vabrus

Yes, it's definitely a house cricket. We sing in every sewer collectorsmile.gif
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22.04.2009 21:09, Tigran Oganesov

Yeah, that's them (crickets, I mean). In Moscow, even in winter, I once heard from the ventilation hole of the metro.
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22.04.2009 21:34, Alex KNZ

3 years ago in August mo. I heard these sounds near the entrance to the wall of a neighboring house. Next to it was a manhole and a corresponding smell. It was a hot evening and dark. I took a flashlight and decided to check it out. In the place where the sounds came from, there were about 10 cockroaches sitting, there was a crack in the basement on the side about a meter from this place, I looked at all this from a distance of 20 cm, i.e. close.(A year earlier, I had seen a similar sight, in another area of the city) Under the lantern, I noticed the very short elytra of one black cockroach, it seemed to me that they were shaking (from this place there was a sound). I couldn't believe my eyes. Suddenly I saw something small black, very similar in size to an adult cricket a few cm away from this sight. I thought this was what I was looking for. I shone my flashlight: a small black cockroach!!!
But thank you all the same, it was probably a house cricket, the chirping is very similar to it, I just didn't see it, it was still dark around! This summer I will go again, check smile.gif

22.04.2009 21:36, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Cockroaches can make a variety of sounds, but just Blatta orientalis is not noticed in this.

22.04.2009 21:37, Liparus

Yeah, that's them. In Moscow, even in winter, I once heard from the ventilation hole of the metro.


At my house on the third floor for the second month as something toli under the parquet floor, toli under the sofa, then at night under the wardrobe strange creaking sounds (both day and night) zadolbali very much...I don't wake up sleep is interrupted even in the morning wake up

a creak..a creak..a creak..a creak...creaking..... silence.....a creak...and so
on Can big sawyere!so in March and April, where is it from?yes, and two months in a row is not it time to die...But cockroaches in the eyes of tfutfutfu did not see at home

22.04.2009 21:41, Liparus

. I'll go again this summer and check it out smile.gif


Quite interesting, maybe some kind of cockroaches and creaks like their Madagascar or some African relatives, those who are kept in the terrarium, when you take it in your hand, they hiss

22.04.2009 21:42, Liparus

It was just creaking under the parquet floor again...blya I'll start matyukatsya
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22.04.2009 23:03, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

It was just creaking under the parquet floor again...Blya soon I'll start matyukatsya


Have you ever tried to spray it with holy water?
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23.04.2009 6:13, Raptor

I can confirm it!A big black cockroach makes chirping sounds!males, surrounded by birds, strike their wings, and females have a white liquid at the end of the abdomen!
I have repeatedly observed such discos in my pantry.half the night with phanar looking at the party.Gather a bunch of 1-3 males and 5-9 females and begins.toko sound is of course much quieter and less frequent than that of a cricket.but in the stillness of the night, hearing is not a problem.
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23.04.2009 6:18, Raptor

It's a pity that cockroaches have not been seen at home for more than 5 years.For the sake of this discovery, I wrote it down.As a child, I remember there were a lot of them,I used to play soldiers with them,I built whole botalenas.

23.04.2009 8:36, PVOzerski

Raptor, is your" big black cockroach " Blatta, Shelfordella or someone else?

23.04.2009 12:23, Alex KNZ

Well, now everything is clear! Just what kind of view and why is there no word in the literature?...

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25.04.2009 10:10, Raptor

Well like our usual Blatta

25.04.2009 17:16, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Well, now everything is clear! Just what kind of view and why is there no word in the literature?...


Why not? Roth L.M., Hartman H.B. Sound Production and Its Evolutionary significance in the Blattaria. Annals of the Entomological society of America, 1967 60 (4): 740-752. That's what I immediately remembered. there are also more recent works.
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