Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach

Scientific Name: Parcoblatta pensylvanica (DeGreer)

A chestnut brown cockroach about, 7/8- 1 1/8 inch in length. It’s prototal shields and forwing have a pale white edge. The wings of the male cover the abdomen. Male are good fliers. The females has wings the do not extend to the bottom of the abdomen, and can not fly. This Cockroach is considered an outdoors roach living under wood piles , tree bark, tree holes or similar areas. They rarely invade structures.