Orange Headed Cockroach

 

                   

                Orange Headed Cockroach

 

 

SPECIES: Eublaberus posticus

 

STATUS: Least Concern

 

HABITAT: Caves

 

DIET: Since these cockroaches live in caves occupied by bats, they will eat anything that lands on the cave floor including bats.

 

GENERAL: The Orange Headed Cockroach lives only in caves occupied by bats and since living in caves create an unusual challenge to the Orange Headed Cockroach when obtaining food; they wait for a bat to fall to the floor and get stuck in the guano, and when the bat dies they begin to feed.

 

This cockroach can attain a length of 2 inches, they also have wings but are unable to fly.

 

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