The invasive Turkestan cockroach is displacing the oriental cockroach in the southwestern US
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 00:00
in Biology & Nature
The Turkestan cockroach, Blatta lateralis (Walker), has become an important invasive species throughout the southwestern United States and has been reported in the southern United States. It is rapidly replacing the oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis (L.), in urban areas of the southwestern United States as the most important peri-domestic species.