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Originally Posted by ex34449
"Almost everything about this post is incorrect. Palmetto bugs are cockroaches and can, indeed, fly."
I'm pretty confident you aren't from Florida. lol
The Orkin site doesn't even show a picture of one. Here, let's use the UF link instead. Technically yes, they have wings but so do penguins... it doesn't mean they can take flight.
Show me the wings please??
Florida woods cockroach - Eurycotis floridana (Walker) |
From the link @ UF that you provided;
"However, palmettobug may also describe any large cockroach that may frequently be encountered as a peridomestic pest, and has included several members of Eurycotis and Periplaneta (Gurney & Walker 1976) such as the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus), and the smokybrown cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa"
Both of these species are capable of adult flight.