Death's Head Cockroach Blaberus craniifer

The Death's Head Cockroach gets its name from the patterns on the adult's pronutum which occasionally resemble a human face (if you have good imagination).

It is native to Central America, including Cuba, West Indies and Mexico, and is invasive in southern Florida. About 7cm long, adults fly well but nymphs have no wings.

The Death's Head lives in leaf litter or rotting bark, eating/recycling plant matter, wood and fruit. Like other cockroaches, it is gregarious, nocturnal and uses pheromones to communicate.

The pronutum patterns are extremely variable.