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Cockroach
-Blattaria-
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

photograph © Alex Wild 2004

Cockroaches can be beautiful insects.  It is worth remembering that a vast majority of roach species are not pests and do not normally enter human habitations.  This nocturnal roach was photographed walking across the floor of a tropical Araucaria forest.

 
Australia, QLD: Mungkan Kandju National Park
28 km NNE Coen, McIlwraith range
24.viii.2004, 13º42.796'S 143º18.924'E, 420m
Araucaria cunninghami forest.

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This image was captured with a Canon EOS D60, with a Canon 65/2.8 MPE 1-5x Macro lens.