Talk:Blattella asahinai

Cleaning Up

I reorganized this article to group topics together, updated distribution and other information (provided references), and somewhat qualified its diet.

Someone added the information that this species eats lepidopteran eggs and provided the reference. However, the sentence gave the impression that this is the roaches only food, when actually it is omnivorous. Under certain conditions it does eat certain lepidopteran eggs. We had a seminar at my entomology department at UF where this finding was discussed by the investigators. Apparently, this cockroach is "beneficial" depending on existing pest-predator relationship in a field. I remember that if the red imported fire ant (RIFA) is present, the Asian cockroach does not do well in that field. This is because RIFA will defend aphid colonies it obtains honeydew from and thus attacks Asian cockroaches searching the foliage for food. The cockroaches will then not search the foliage and seek food on the soil surface. Trfasulo (talk) 00:43, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing Reference

Whoever originally added the "(Snoddy and Appel 2007)" reference to the article should link to it or provide the journal source. Trfasulo (talk) 00:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: General Entomology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 August 2022 and 5 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Awh33 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Awh33 (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Removed a sentence

I removed this sentence because it contradicts this article and several others that say the two are nearly identical and that they can be distinguished visually:

The Asian and German look identical to the naked eye as they both have tan and dark features as well as two parallel stripes behind the head.

Atkinson (talk) 00:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)