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Domino Cockroach


Domino Cockroach
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Copyright: kv vral (vral) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 65 W: 1 N: 218] (1049)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-22
Categories: Insects
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/60 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-10-30 4:18
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Hello Friends,
this is a Domino Cockroach (Therea petiveriana),a ground dweller.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
family Polyphagidae
subfamily Polyphaginae
genus Therea (Billberg, 1820)
species petiveriana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific Name: Therea petiveriana
Common Name: Domino cockroach

Adults of these species mostly found in dry and scrub jungle of India burrow in soil, leaf litter and debris including garbage dump during their non-active period. The nymphs are subterranean and prefer zone between litter and underlying humus, but may descend up to 30cm during dry period.

Females of this species are reported to be monandrous. Once mated, females refrain from further insemination, rest of their lives.

They simply deposit their oothecae randomly in dry leaves. They deposit oothecae within a day of extrusion, but may retain it as long as 90 hrs if a suitably moist substance is not available

Some facts about cockroaches:
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The world's largest roach (which lives in South America) is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan.

For 40 minutes, cockroaches can hold their breath

75% of time, cockroaches spend just resting

5,000 -- Number of species of cockroaches worldwide

More than 280 millionYears ago that cockroaches are thought to have originated (during the Carboniferous era)
Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives
A cockroach can live a week without its head. The roach only dies because without a mouth, it can't drink water and dies of thirst.
Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an hour.
Young cockroaches need only a crack as thin as a dime (about .5mm wide) to crawl into. Adult males can squeeze into a space of 1.6mm or the thickness of a quarter. Pregnant females need the most space to hide: 4.5mm or a space as tall as two stacked nickels.
A cockroach heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards in the insect. The heart can even stop moving without harming the roach.
Roaches can live without food for a month, but will only survive a week without water.
Most species of roaches live in the tropics. But roaches live all over the world, including the North and South Poles. Pest cockroachs can withstand temperatures as cold as 32°F (0°C), but will die if the temperature goes much below that. In extremely cold places, however, they survive by moving in with humans.

Cockroaches can climb walls because they are equipped with a set of little claws on their feet designed for that very purpose.

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.
Roaches use their feelers, or antennae, as noses. Their sense of smell is so great, they recognize family and friends by their distinctive odors.

Female roaches attract male roaches by producing pheromones. Pheromones are chemicals that make the female roach smell REALLY good to the males roach.

Some female cockroaches incubate their egg cases in their bodies until they are ready to hatch. These babies stay with their mothers a day or two after they are born.

Male cockroaches transfer sperm to females in a "gift-wrapped" package called a spermatophore. Some males cover the package in a protein-rich wrapping that the female can eat to obtain nutrients to raise her young.
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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2068 W: 0 N: 5040] (20549)
  • [2008-10-30 5:53]

Hello,
Excellent posting with a very ineresting creature I almost never have seen until now on TN. Pleasant and sharp picture and excellent note. Females seem to have a very exemplary behaviour!
Thanks for this instructive posting
Anne

hi kv,
this is very good find and well captured, nice to see its design and shapes, lovely, can't believe its cockroach. tfs.
nagraj.v

nice close up, TFS Ori

Hi KV

Great shot of this most unusual cockroach. I really like teh pattern and the POV you have chosen to shoot it.
Great composition and sharpness.

Chris

Quite a strange roach from the ones we are familiar with Kv, looks likea a good pet material and your dorsal viewpoint shows its dorsal aspect in great detail and perfect colour. TFS this my friend.
Mehmet

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1010 W: 4 N: 3273] (14745)
  • [2008-10-31 3:36]
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Hello Vral, I have heard Domino pizza and Lotus Domino but this Domino hearing forat the first time. hehehe Nice shot and how did you spot this? WoW good composition. Ganesh

Hi Vral. Cocroach that I have never seen before. Beautiful white dots against the black color and contrasting well with the green leaf. Regards. Jusni

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