Natural cockroach predators?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Natural cockroach predators?

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:17:27 PM EDT

I came home from a trip to find a cockroach upside down in my dining room, evidently bled out with black shit smeared all around him.

I flipped him over and it looked like he had a little bite taken out of his abdomen. Hardy little fucker was still trying to move.

What would do this to a cockroach?

We've got a lot of wolf spiders and geckos around here, too, but I didn't figure either one of those could or would do that to a roach.

Anyone with some entomological wisdom care to chime in on this?

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:18:08 PM EDT

[#1]

pussum

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:19:07 PM EDT

[#2]

A rat will eat a cockroach if hungry enough.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:19:42 PM EDT

[#3]

Are you married?

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:21:43 PM EDT

[#4]

Id guess small lizard

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:24:16 PM EDT

[#5]

They can survive a nuclear winter, but not these

Cockroaches have many natural predators, including toads, frogs,
beetles, geckos and iguanas. Some parasitic wasp species are safe for
humans but are effective exterminators of roach populations. These
species lay their eggs inside the egg cases of cockroaches; hatchlings
feed upon nearby cockroach eggs. Entomopathogenic fungi have also been
identified as effective means of roach control, as their spores attach
to insects and kill them within weeks. Cockroaches affected by fungi
then pass the parasite on to other cockroaches.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:26:22 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

They can survive a nuclear winter, but not these

Cockroaches have many natural predators, including toads, frogs, beetles, geckos and iguanas. Some parasitic wasp species are safe for humans but are effective exterminators of roach populations. These species lay their eggs inside the egg cases of cockroaches; hatchlings feed upon nearby cockroach eggs. Entomopathogenic fungi have also been identified as effective means of roach control, as their spores attach to insects and kill them within weeks. Cockroaches affected by fungi then pass the parasite on to other cockroaches.

In layman terms that means roach AIDS.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:27:01 PM EDT

[#7]

My pugs love roaches

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:28:43 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Id guess small lizard

I watched a small lizard take a roach in my back yard one day. But since I fired my bug guy and started doing my own pest control, roaches are a thing of the past.

Cyper WP® FTW.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:30:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Lizards just eat the fuckers, they don't gut them.

I'd guess a rodent.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:51:34 PM EDT

[#10]

Small chest burster.

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:59:21 PM EDT

[#11]

Andrew Zimmern

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:00:06 PM EDT

[#12]

Tokay Gecko

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:02:50 PM EDT

[#13]

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1086668

ETA:

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:05:56 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Andrew Zimmern

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:06:52 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1086668

ETA:
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/images/hsepede.jpg

this

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:52:27 PM EDT

[#16]

Mimics kill Roaches

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:05:43 PM EDT

[#17]

The black stuff is roach shit. When they get distressed, the drop their egg "coccoon" and dump their shit.

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:10:29 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Id guess small lizard

THis

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:11:31 PM EDT

[#19]

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:21:39 PM EDT

[#20]

I thought for a minute you were talking politics.

It would be a small-govt conservative.

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:32:20 PM EDT

[#21]

he's just waiting quietly somewhere for another.

Posted: 9/5/2010 5:33:18 PM EDT

[#22]

Liberal application of chemicals...

Nothing seems to eat them in Florida - I think they're top of the food chain.

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