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More than 1500 species of the wild flora and fauna of Zihuatanejo.
All photographs were taken in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and the surrounding area.
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Cockroaches and Termites of Zihuatanejo
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Surinam Cockroach
Pycnoscelus surinamensis)
The Surinam cockroach or greenhouse cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis) It is a burrowing cockroach. Surinam cockroaches have dark brown or black bodies with shiny brown wings. Males have longer wings than the females, but regardless, neither gender can fly particularly well.
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