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Florida Woods Cockroach, Eurycotis floridana1
D. R. Suiter and P. G. Koehler2APPEARANCE
The Florida woods cockroach is large, dark brown to almost black, averaging 1.5 to 1.75 inches in length. The wings are short and barely extend beyond the mesonotum.
Florida woods cockroach. HABITAT
The Florida woods cockroach is found in the West Indies and Florida. It is found in almost any outdoor sheltered location and is often found in stacked lumber, firewood, leaf litter, and sometimes treeholes. It may occasionally enter houses.BIOLOGY AND HABITS
Florida woods cockroaches have only one generation per year. Adults may survive for several years.CONTROL
Because the Florida woods cockroach is found outdoors, applications of insecticides to foundation plantings, wood piles, mulch, and other infested locations are recommended. Treatments placed to intercept cockroaches are both environmentally- and entomologically-sound. Residual barrier sprays have been shown to provide substantial reductions of Florida woods cockroach populations around houses.
Footnotes
1. This document is ENY237, one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date October 1991. Reviewed May 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. D.R. Suiter, research assistant; Philip G. Koehler, professor, Entomology and Nematology Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611.
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