#eurycotis floridana

[colfy-in-a-jet]

and why u so red even 😂😂🤔

Florida woods cockroach (Eurycotis floridana) that glows under the sun... very pretty!! She was quite the angry hisser though. Cutie!!

[platycryptus]

Florida skunk roach (Eurycotis floridana) grazing on wheat bran

[overdoso]

A barata da floresta da Flórida (Florida woods cockroach - Florida skunk roach - Eurycotis floridana) é uma espécie de barata grande que normalmente cresce até um comprimento de 30–40 mm. Essa está se refastelando em farelos de trigo.

[colfy-in-a-jet]

Florida wood roach aka palmetto bug (Eurycotis floridana). it was running around my dad's shed where he makes calcium powder, hence the white dust.

Cute roach... It was considerably heavy, loved feeling it's little tarsal claws on me. Lovely lovely... 🪳🪳🪳 Adorable roachy

[keithcurrypochy]

Florida Woods Cockroach aka Palmetto Bug (Eurycotis floridana)

Florida Woods Cockroach is often found in Southeastern US, often living in the boots of palmettos, giving it the nickname palmetto bug here in Florida. When threaten they can emit a foul oder that I think smells kind of like black licorice. They have short wings on the thorax but cannot fly. Winged cockroaches are typically American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana).

Gainesville, FL

[keithcurrypochy]

Palmetto Bug aka Florida Woods Cockroach (Eurycotis floridana)

Prairie Creek Conservation Area

Gainesville, FL

[penanggalan]

Roaches are beautiful, delicate little treasures.

Skunk roach, e. floridana.

[penanggalan]

Eurycotis Floridana, aka the Florida Skunk Roach or Wood Cockroach, is and always has been one of my all-time favorite cockroaches. I've kept these for 2+ years now after capturing them in Florida, where they are often called Palmetto bugs (as well as a variety of other roaches including brown, American, Australian etc) by Florida natives. The old-timers called them "darn stinkin palmetto bugs" when they would hide out in their swamp cabbage.

Perhaps the most distinguishable characteristic of these roaches besides their beautiful, solid deep maroon color (of which they have all throughout their life, except for a nymph phase where their thorax has two clear, white streaks on either side) is their defensive odor. Some say it smells like amaretto or rotten cherries, or the rotten palmetto berries from the saw palmetto fan palms where they prefer to live. When they expel this defensive odor, you can hear a faint rattling/hissing sound. I happen to be quite fond of the smell!

These beauties can also be found in coatal areas of Alabama and in the Caribbean, and are a tropical or sub-tropical species. They lay a rather large eggsac which may contain 40-50 eggs. They are climbers, but do not fly.