#australian cockroach

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wingless native australian cockroach!

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Cockroaches and their control (1939) by E.A. Back

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Almost ran over this dude with my wheelchair while at the biodome yesterday but stopped in time and yoinked him to take a picture and put him up higher to not get squished. It was pretty cool to see him cleaning himself after I put him down (Which cockroaches do after touching humans) but part of me was a bit offended lol

For those curious, this is a (I believe) Australian cockroach who was probably destined to be eaten by some of the animals as a feeder insect

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Bugust Challenge Day 4 (Fan Character Friday): The Director and Assistant 8.4.23

Done in 30 minutes

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The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Lake Taupō

I didn't just go to Aotearoa for the animals and plants - I wanted to see the geology as well. Australia hasn't done much apart from erode for the last 99 million years, but New Zealand is on the tectonic boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates, so the geology is much more active. In fact, in some areas it's positively lively.

This is Lake Taupō, a very large lake in the middle of the North Island, and the most active supervolcano in the world. The last big eruption, about 230 CE, blew out over 100 cubic kilometers of rock, much of it over seven or eight minutes. The previous one, 25750 years ago, blasted out over 10 times that. Large parts of the island were buried in hundreds of meters of red-hot volcanic ash, travelling at just under the speed of sound, that settled still hot enough to fuse into ignimbrite rock. The very term ignimbrite was coined in New Zealand to describe this kind of pyroclastic deposit. Microscopic diatoms from the lake sediments have been found mixed with the ash that landed in the Chatham Islands over 800km away. It's also made a nice dating layer in the Antarctic ice cap.

And if all this ash and the volcanic domes and geothermal fields around the lake weren't enough, the fact that the lake has black beaches, with a strandline of fist-sized pumice, and steep cliffs around the periphery, should be a big clue that this is not a healthy place to be. At least over geological periods. In theory there should be a little warning the next time the supervolcano decides to blow out a crater the size of Singapore.

@purrdence and I stayed at two places around the caldera - Taupo township, and a much smaller place on the southern end of the lake with a name that translates as 'Sandfly and all his mates'. Both venues had geothermal hot tubs attached. We also visited the Craters of the Moon geothermal field, and the Huka Falls cascade.

Craters of the Moon was certainly pungent - the numerous fumeroles and mudpots percolate a lot of sulphur, arsenic and other elements. One of the now-collapsed fumeroles, the Devil's Trumpet, used to be nocturnal pyrotechnic display, after guides threw kerosene-soaked sackng in and got a 50-foot column of fire in responce.

Some of the species I've seen before - most from Purrdence's visit to the area a year earlier, but also some from Australia. And at least two from my carport here in Perth.

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I found a LOT of bug pictures while looking for pics of Momma. I'll share them now.

Here's my best pic of Momma.

Here's Momma and her babies

The biggest Roly Poly I ever found. Here in Texas, we call them Roly Polies

I found this cute little guy on the side of my friends' house

Here's Sticks, for some reason, he would always move from the bathroom to somewhere else. Reminds me of a time when he was walking on my ceiling so I literally stood on my bed and tried to grab him carefully but he fell from my ceiling and I called my mom into my room to get her to help me get him because I didn't want to accidentally kill him. Mom came in and grabbed him, yes, I was completely still before she grabbed him. He was fine after the whole ordeal and he went on to have babies with Momma.

Speaking of which, here is Sticks and Momma. Sticks is on the left, Momma on the right.

I found this little guy at my old school, I'm hoping it can be identified

Here's a spider I found in my bathroom that I named Goldie.

Here is Tiny. Idk if this was the dad of the first eggs Momma laid.

I found this thing in Florida. It looks like an American Cockroach but I know it can't be because of what appears to be stripes. My dad has told me Palmeto bugs look like American Cockroaches.

I would have posted the other photos as well but I'll do that in another submit since I can only post 10 photos which sucks. So consider this Part 1 of my creepy crawly album.

@symbi-that-one-parasite​ These are all delightful! Especially Momma and her babies. And also the very large woodlouse and wolf spider below it. Goldie is a lynx of some sort, probably a striped lynx though I can’t see him super clearly. The one you found at your school is also not very clear but perhaps a triangulate combfoot? Palmetto bugs are just another name for some cockroaches. That one is an Australian cockroach. I don’t know why it’s called that because it’s not originally from Australia and is fairly common in the Southern US!

Thanks for sharing all these pals, hopefully I didn’t forget any you wanted IDed. :)

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Australian Cockroach, species unknown. 25mm long. Kalbarri, Western Australia

Photographer: Robert Valentic  

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#3495 - Zonioploca medilinea - Desert Mid-lined Cockroach

A modestly sized and marked Blattid roach, found across much of the southern half of Australia, or at the very least the semi-arid bits.

There are at least nine species in the genus, which is endemic to Australia.

Foxes Lair, Narrogin