Oriental Cockroach

Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, 1758. This Cockroach had just moulted when I saw it, a few inches away from its exuvia on the bark of a Mango tree, down at the roots, near the ground. The exuvia, shown in the last photo, is dark brown in colour, as we expect of a cockroach. However, when newly moulted, a roach is almost white as you can see in the first five photos.