About 5/8-inch long. Light to medium brown with two dark longitudinal streaks on the thorax.
Nocturnal; primarily infests areas near to food, moisture and warmth. Most common cockroach found in and around apartments, homes, supermarkets and restaurants.
Diet:
Scavenger; eats almost anything.
Reproduction:
Females can produce one egg capsule every 20 to 25 days. Each capsule contains from 18 to 48 eggs. Newborns become adults in as little as 36 days. Adults can live up to one year.
Nocturnal; primarily infests areas near to food, moisture and warmth. Most common cockroach found in and around apartments, homes, supermarkets and restaurants.
Diet:
Scavenger; eats almost anything.
Reproduction:
Females can produce one egg capsule every 20 to 25 days. Each capsule contains from 18 to 48 eggs. Newborns become adults in as little as 36 days. Adults can live up to one year.
Dark reddish-brown to black and 1/10-inch long. Antennae have 12 segments.
Nests found in a great variety of situations. Inside buildings, they are often found nesting in walls or beneath the floor. They are likely to invade buildings during rainy weather. They travel in trails, foraging day and night.
Diet:
They prefer sweet items.
Reproduction:
Each female in the nest lays one egg a day; young reach adulthood in an average of 24 days; workers and females live for several years.
Nests found in a great variety of situations. Inside buildings, they are often found nesting in walls or beneath the floor. They are likely to invade buildings during rainy weather. They travel in trails, foraging day and night.
Diet:
They prefer sweet items.
Reproduction:
Each female in the nest lays one egg a day; young reach adulthood in an average of 24 days; workers and females live for several years.
Bed bugs are flat, reddish-brown, oval insects about 3/16-inch long or the size of an apple seed. Swollen and reddish after a blood meal.
Habit:
Cracks and crevices including mattress seams, sheets, furniture, behind baseboards, electrical outlet plates and picture frames. Often found in hotels, where they can travel from room to room and in visitors’ luggage.
Diet:
Feed on blood.
Reproduction:
Females can deposit one to five eggs a day, and may lay 200 to 500 eggs in a lifetime. Under normal room temperatures and with an adequate food supply, they can live over 300 days.
Habit:
Cracks and crevices including mattress seams, sheets, furniture, behind baseboards, electrical outlet plates and picture frames. Often found in hotels, where they can travel from room to room and in visitors’ luggage.
Diet:
Feed on blood.
Reproduction:
Females can deposit one to five eggs a day, and may lay 200 to 500 eggs in a lifetime. Under normal room temperatures and with an adequate food supply, they can live over 300 days.
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Small and slender, three to four inches long, with large ears, small eyes and pointed nose. Light brown or light gray. Droppings are rod-shaped.
Habit:
Nests within structures and burrows. Establish a "territory" near food sources that are generally 10 to 30 feet from nest. Inquisitive, but very wary. Excellent climbers.
Diet:
Omnivorous, but prefers cereal grains.
Reproduction:
Prolific breeders by two months of age. Can have litters as often as every 40 or 50 days, with four to seven young per litter. Live up to one year.
Habit:
Nests within structures and burrows. Establish a "territory" near food sources that are generally 10 to 30 feet from nest. Inquisitive, but very wary. Excellent climbers.
Diet:
Omnivorous, but prefers cereal grains.
Reproduction:
Prolific breeders by two months of age. Can have litters as often as every 40 or 50 days, with four to seven young per litter. Live up to one year.
There are so many different spiders that appear in Central Kentucky.
Please click here to go to the University of Kentucky's Entomology Department for a listing of all found spiders in the area.
Please click here to go to the University of Kentucky's Entomology Department for a listing of all found spiders in the area.
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