The term "water bug" is often the nickname for an indoor roach called the Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis) but there's also a true water bug (infraorder Nepomorpha) that prefers to stay ...

Cockroaches. Cockroaches are usually reddish or brownish, although the oriental cockroaches (Blatta orientalis) are a lot darker. The main difference between a cockroach and a water bug is the ...

In the decades that followed, the bug simply out-bred and out-competed the more common Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), according to UC Riverside entomologist Michael K. Rust, author of a ...

Oriental cockroaches (Blatta orientalis) are the ones most likely to be mistaken for water bugs because they’re dark and live near water; sometimes they’re called water roaches.

Shedding its shell. In order to grow, cockroaches have to repeatedly shed the tough outer layer of their body. This moulting oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis) has outgrown its shell, split it ...

image: Adult males of the Turkestan cockroach, Blatta lateralis, (left) and the oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis (right) are shown. view more Credit: Entomological Society of America. The ...

The replacement is likely occurring because Turkestan roaches (Blatta lateralis) lay more eggs and mature more quickly than oriental roaches (Blatta orientalis), Rust said.

DURING experiments on the oxygen consumption of Blatella germanica, it was observed that one specimen which was used on the day of its last moult, when it was still pale in colour, had a ...

He added that the cough syrup contains "Blatta Orientalis" which is parts of a dead cockroach, mixed with ginger and alcohol. "Now Homeopaths would argue, there is no cockroach there because we ...