Dr. Dominic Evangelista

My name is Dominic Evangelista and I use he, him pronouns.

Yeah, I registered the email blattodiology at gmail.com like 10 years ago, but I've never used it.

Nice.

No, you're like, don't.

I know what most of them will be, so I don't want those questions, but sure.

Yes, pretty much.

That's like 70% of them.

That's about right, yeah.

I don't know, somewhere between 10 and 20, maybe.

So the vast majority of cockroach species you will never come into contact with.

They live out in the forests and the deserts and the grasslands of our planet, and they do not want to come into contact with humans.

Those like kind of 10 species that we might come across in our homes give a bad reputation to all of them.

My sense is that when people hear the word cockroach, they have an image in their head of one, maybe two species, either Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach, or Latella germanica, the German cockroach.

By the way, those cockroaches are not originally from America or Germany.

Yeah.

So like for Periplanet Americana, that's like the Wally Roach.

That's the big brown one that most people are probably familiar with.

And Botella Germanica is the tiny little amber light colored one with black stripes.

Those are just two species.

Cockroaches, we know of about 7,000 species of cockroaches.