The Biotic Associations of CockroachesRoth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
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The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches
Roth, Louis M. (Louis Marcus)
Cockroaches; Insects -- Ecology
_Natural prey._--Blattidae, unidentified (below 1 percent of the diet),
_Cutila soror_ (below 1 percent of the diet), _Diploptera punctata_
(above 6 percent of the diet), and _Pycnoscelus surinamensis_ (6 percent
of the diet), Hawaii (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1949).
=Coturnix coturnix japonica= (Temminck and Schlegel)
_Common name._--Japanese quail.
_Natural prey._--Blattidae (unidentified) and _Lobopterella
dimidiatipes_, Hawaii (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1949).
=Domestic chicken=
_Natural and experimental prey._--_Blaberus craniifer_, U.S.A., Key
West, Florida. J.A.G. Rehn in 1912 (personal communication) observed
chickens feeding on nymphs of _B. craniifer_ which had dropped to the
ground from among stacked coffins in an undertaker's shack.
_Blatta orientalis_, U.S.A. (Rau, 1924): The chickens ate cockroaches
that were caught in traps.
_Hebardina concinna_, Japan (Asano, 1937): Experimental feeding to white
Leghorn chickens.
_Periplaneta americana_, Surinam (Stage, 1947): Several cockroaches ran
off the floor of a house, which was being sprayed with DDT, and were
eaten by chickens. Although some chickens had DDT tremors the next day,
all appeared normal two days later.
_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Australia (Fielding, 1926); Formosa,
experimental feeding (Kobayashi, 1927); Australia, experimental feeding
(Fielding, 1927, 1928); U.S.A., Florida, experimental feeding (Sanders,
1928); Antigua (Hutson, 1943); Hawaii (Illingworth, 1931; Schwabe, 1949,
1950a, 1950b). This cockroach is the intermediate host of _Oxyspirura
mansoni_, the chicken eye worm.
Cockroaches, Guadeloupe (Dutertre, 1654); Africa (Moiser, 1947):
"Poultry" ate cockroaches which had been killed by DDT and sodium
fluoride. Hawaii (Zimmerman, 1948).
=Partridge=
_Natural prey._--Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a): The food of
two small species of leaf-colored partridges that lived on the jungle
floor, consisted chiefly of cockroaches and beetles.
Family MELEAGRIDIDAE
=Meleagris gallopavo= (Linnaeus)
_Common name._--Turkey.
_Natural prey._--_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Antigua (Hutson, 1943):
Turkeys were found heavily infected with Manson's eye worm of which _P.
surinamensis_ is the only known intermediate host. These turkeys
therefore were presumed to have fed on this cockroach.
Order COLUMBIFORMES
Family COLUMBIDAE
=Streptopelia chinensis= (Scopoli)
_Common name._--Chinese dove.
_Natural prey._--_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Hawaii (Schwabe, 1950b).
=Pigeon=
_Experimental prey._--_Pycnoscelus surinamensis_, Australia (Fielding,
1927); U.S.A., Florida (Sanders, 1928).
Order STRIGIFORMES
Family STRIGIDAE
=Gymnasio nudipes= (Daudin)
_Common name._--Bare-legged owl.
_Natural prey._--_Epilampra_ sp., Puerto Rico (Wetmore, 1916): One
specimen identified in stomach of a wild-caught owl.
Cockroaches, Puerto Rico (Wetmore, 1916): These insects were found in
stomachs of five owls.
Order CORACIFORMES
Family TODIDAE
=Todus mexicanus= Lesson
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