Observations in the SuperFamily: Blattoidea
English Name: Valvular Cockroaches
This taxon contains:
By: Charles Stirton
Observed on: 26th February 2011
Added to iSpot: 21st September 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 18th September 2013
Added to iSpot: 21st September 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 23rd August 2013
Added to iSpot: 14th September 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 7th December 2009
Added to iSpot: 5th August 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Roughly 30mm in length
Observed on: 31st July 2013
Added to iSpot: 31st July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 2
Description: Female.
Observed on: 13th July 2013
Added to iSpot: 30th July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 3
Observed on: 14th July 2013
Added to iSpot: 18th July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 1
Description: Termite with a rounded head with antennae with 23-31 segments. The underground nest consists of several hives made of faecal carton interconnected with wide passages. Workers pursue any non-woody material containing cellulose so crops,lawns, sports fields are prone to attack and they also can infest buildings, especially those made of material like clay mortar.
Observed on: 30th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 16th July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 23rd June 2013
Added to iSpot: 4th July 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 1
Description: Came from Dirk Miller's garden on a bouquet of Camelias. After reassuring the wife that it was purely a natural roach and nothing to worry about, it turned up in the bread bin the next day, and "had to be" dispatched.
Observed on: 17th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 2nd July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 4
Description: A very unstable slope. Lots of loose scree despite a very good cover of vegetation. This mound appears to have rollen over: the basal rocks are now on top, the cone-shaped base is pointing about 40* off vertical. Whatever the cause, it has not bothered the 'mites and they have just grown and new base and life goes on.
Observed on: 16th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 1st July 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 30th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 30th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 5
Description: Abandoned colony.
Observed on: 16th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 30th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 26th October 2009
Added to iSpot: 25th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: photo 1 is of the dead beastie propped up on a twig to show its "face"
Observed on: 15th June 2013
Added to iSpot: 24th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Busy pulling large pieces of grass into a tiny hole.
Observed on: 30th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 20th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 29th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 11th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
Description: Am guessing, but the large number of large white nymphs suggest that these are future kings and queens in production for the rainy season ...
Observed on: 3rd March 2013
Added to iSpot: 5th June 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 24th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 27th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 2
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Observed on: 20th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 24th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 27th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
Description: An attempt at rock science (sorry, you dont expect termites to get rocket science do you?). But constrained by a crack, the beasts have to construct runnels to get any food, which they do along the joints.
Observed on: 27th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
Description: Looks like it is also being used as a grazing lawn!
Observed on: 12th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 19th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 6th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 17th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 16th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 13th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 5th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 5th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Saw her lying dead in the bathroom over a day ago. Today decided to take a photo to sex her, and she kicked! She had been lying in the same place, too weak to move, for ages. What a cruel way to die. The effects of insecticide perhaps?
Observed on: 27th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 3rd May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 24th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 2nd May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 11
By: Jeltje
Location: Ottery
Lat/Lng: -34.0182472, 18.5034361
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Observed on: 20th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 28th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Flattened medium sized insect about 3cm long.Round shape.Segmented body pointed at end of abdomen.Dark brown with orange-brown legs and black antenna. Wingless.Found among leave matter in garden.Slow-moving,did not scuttle away.Only one specimen seen.
Observed on: 20th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 22nd April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Description: Tiny, 5mm soldier termites (now under the Order
Blattodea . These are the soldiers guarding the hole I made in it. They have no eyes and their heads are modified to spit a chemicals at any threat.
By: Lynette Rudman
Observed on: 1st April 2013
Added to iSpot: 1st April 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 6
Observed on: 31st March 2013
Added to iSpot: 31st March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 4
Description: 30mm cockroach inspecting hole in the bark of a Cabbage Tree (Cussonia). Scuttled away fast when I attempted to get a facial shot.
Observed on: 21st March 2013
Added to iSpot: 25th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 18th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 12th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 7
Comments: 2
Description: On the gate of our B+B in Knysna
Observed on: 7th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 2
Description: I would not have noticed these guys if I had not heard them cutting and slicing.
Observed on: 6th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 6th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Thought I would post a picture. There are so many of these termite mounds in various states. The dead ones are alive in other ways.
By: Charles Stirton
Observed on: 2nd September 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th March 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 1
Observed on: 1st December 2012
Added to iSpot: 27th February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 5
By: Charles Stirton
Observed on: 25th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 23rd February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 10th June 2012
Added to iSpot: 23rd February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Fire did not seem to damage any mounds. Cattle, on the other hand, dug them up and used them as scratching posts.
Location: Rondevlei
Lat/Lng: -34.057678805556, 18.502311638889
Rondevlei Nature Reserve
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Observed on: 27th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 28th April 2011
Added to iSpot: 15th February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Location: Romansrivier
Lat/Lng: -33.478328138889, 19.200947277778
Romansriver Nature Reserve
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Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 8th February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
By: Georg Fritz
Observed on: 9th July 2011
Added to iSpot: 31st January 2013
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: About 3m high.
Observed on: 23rd January 2013
Added to iSpot: 24th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: About 10mm Cemented cover over twigs that they're breaking down.
Observed on: 28th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 24th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 28th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 24th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 5
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 6th November 2005
Added to iSpot: 17th January 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Alates attracted to light before te irst rains of the season. Body length about 18mm
