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Photo by amsettine
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Field Notes

Description:

White/semi translucent insect (6 legs), antennae that were about the same length as it's body (.5"), two tails on its butt, black eyes.

Habitat:

I found this in my apartment in Brooklyn

Notes:

It may be a mother bug because it had weird sac like structures on its back?

Species ID Suggestions

German Cockroach

Blattella germanica

Reference Link
BugEric
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Comments (2)
BugEric
This is a freshly-molted adult, and the structures on its back are its wings, which have not yet unfolded, dried, and hardened. It literally shed (molted) minutes before you took this picture.
Scott Frazier
Hello. I moved your spotting to the Arthropods category. :-)
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PublishedDecember 17, 2014

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