"Frost-resistant" cockroaches

I carried periplanets in a jar in my jacket pocket in the cold. Upon arrival from the street, they lay stiff, then slowly thawed, began to twitch their paws and whiskers, came to life and lived for a long time.

At the source of the Lybed River in Kiev, I met a large colony of pereplanets.

I apologize for resuming the old topic, but I thought it appropriate to add here my cockroaches caught in June of this year in the Moscow region, near the PTZ.


Mowing and manual harvesting of flowering mixed grasses in the valley of the Sushka river, 5 km from the nearest settlement.



Only the top 4 rows. Sampling from crown traps (2.5 km ) from the village of Luzhki, oak crown, bait fruit braga, fixative vinegar, exposure 1 month). The rest, mowing and manual harvesting.

This post was edited by Seneka-08.07.2011 15: 23

I apologize for resuming the old topic, but I thought it appropriate to add here my cockroaches caught in June of this year in the Moscow region, near the PTZ.

Mowing and manual harvesting of flowering mixed grasses in the valley of the Sushka river, 5 km from the nearest settlement.

Only the top 4 rows. Sampling from crown traps (2.5 km ) from the village of Luzhki, oak crown, bait fruit braga, fixative vinegar, exposure 1 month). The rest, mowing and manual harvesting.

Well, this is banal Ectobius most likely lapponicus, female for sure. If you want, you can pick up all over the MO, and not just in the PTZ, he lives "in the forest" settlements he doesn't need nafig, males sometimes fly to the light.

Let me quote: "Among the large cockroach species that live everywhere, in warehouses, ships and mines, we should name the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), whose body length is up to 4.5 cm........In this species, females also have wings. "V. J. Stanek" Illustrated Encyclopedia of Insects "( 1977 Artia Publishing House, Prague). Perhaps you should understand that they were already in Europe at that time?

They appeared in the Russian Empire at the very beginning of the 20th century, the first finds from Odessa.