Scientific name: Germanic Blatella

BLONDE OR GERMAN COCKROACH

Morphology: measuring up to 2.5 cm. And it is light brown with two darker longitudinal stripes on pronotum. The nymphs are darker: . Females and males have wings but are unable to fly.

Habitat and diet: They live in dark environments with high levels of moisture and heat. They are omnivorous, preferring to waste fermented foods or beverages

Life cycle: 

The female carries her ootheca (egg sets) to 1 or 2 days before hatching, and then placed in a protected area. Each ootheca consists of between 30 and 50 eggs and an adult membrane generates up to one ootheca per month. Newborns reach sexual maturity in just 36 days so that the potential of the speciesreproduces annually (taking into account that they can live more than a year) is 20,000 descendants.