Blatta

The roach was a Blatta orientalis, the oriental cockroach, about an inch long and shiny black, commonly found in all the swank houses of Palo Alto.

7th Heaven Patterson, James 2008

The roach was a Blatta orientalis, the oriental cockroach, about an inch long and shiny black, commonly found in all the swank houses of Palo Alto.

7th Heaven Patterson, James 2008

It was probably an oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis that were common in the houses in the town we lived in back then in Turkey.

Archive 2007-10-01 AYDIN 2007

It was probably an oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis that were common in the houses in the town we lived in back then in Turkey.

Interesting animal meme AYDIN 2007

A 1997 study by Dr. Jennifer Jacobs examining the use of potentized common cockroach, Blatta orientalis, for treating childhood asthma showed no difference in the group receiving homeopathy, compared with placebo.

The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

A 1997 study by Dr. Jennifer Jacobs examining the use of potentized common cockroach, Blatta orientalis, for treating childhood asthma showed no difference in the group receiving homeopathy, compared with placebo.

The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

_Phylloxera_, a few visitations of yellow fever, the _Blatta gigantea_, and, climate allowing, may perhaps throw in the Colorado beetle as a make-weight.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

Sprung from a distinguished family, he was the son of Blatta and Plato.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The thirteen species belong to the following orders: —In the Coleoptera, a minute Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta; Hemiptera, one species; Homoptera, two; Neuroptera, a Chrysopa; Hymenoptera, two ants; Lepidoptera nocturna, a Diopæa, and a Pterophorus (?); Diptera, two species.

Chapter XX 1909

There are grasshoppers and cockroaches in which the changes are even less than those just sketched, because the wings remain, even in the adult, in a rudimentary state (as for example in the female of the common kitchen cockroach, _Blatta orientalis_, see fig. 4 _a_), or are never developed at all.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902