They eat the leaves of almost all types of plants, including forest, shade, and orchard trees, shrubs, grasses, flowers, and many field and garden crops. Some are pests that cause serious crop damage. Some species remove excessive amounts of sap or chlorophyll, some plug the phloem and xylem vessels in the leaves, some are vectors for organisms that cause plant disease, and some cause stunting or leaf curling. Enlarged 24 times. They hide in cracks during the day and feed on a variety of foods at night.
All species are active, fast-running insects.
They have long hairlike antennae and an oval, flattened shape with the pronotum concealing their head. Cockroaches are primarily tropical insects that travel north in shipments of tropical fruits. Wood cockroaches can be found here outside under dead logs and stones.