do all cockroaches grow wings?

• D.E.M.O.N.S.W.O.R.D

  3 Dec 08, 00:09

  or some only?

• fatone

  3 Dec 08, 00:13

  Originally posted by D.E.M.O.N.S.W.O.R.D:

  or some only?

  

• MooKu

  3 Dec 08, 00:25

  All of them do.

  This should belong in your primary school Science syllabus. Or maybe now it belongs to a kindergarten textbook, since kids are all so smart these days. Well er, maybe not all.

   

  Wait. You made me doubt myself!

  So... do all cockroaches grow wings?

• gasband

  3 Dec 08, 00:25

  Only these who drink Red Bull

• skythewood

  3 Dec 08, 00:28

  

• purpledragon84

  3 Dec 08, 00:49

  actually i came in to find out the answer too.. lol..

• Shotgun

  3 Dec 08, 01:09

  Not all roaches have wings.  

  The roaches I saw in the jungles don't.  Madagascar hissing cockroaches don't have wings either.

• Ed11790

  3 Dec 08, 06:36

  cockroaches have wings?
• eagle

  3 Dec 08, 08:14

  Not all...

  A simple search in google using the search key cockroach which lead to wiki contains this statement

  All species studied so far carry the obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacterium Blattabacterium cuenoti, with the exception of Nocticola australiensise, an Australian cave dwelling species without eyes, pigment or wings, and which recent genetic testing indicates could be a missing link between cockroaches and mantises

  So there's at least one species without wings

   

   

  A second search with the search key cockroach wings lead to this statement

  Many adult cockroaches have fully developed wings, although few fly. Other cockroaches have short wings or lack wings altogether. Young, immature cockroaches resemble adults but are smaller and wingless.

  From http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/housingandclothing/DK1003.html

• dragg

  3 Dec 08, 09:06

  Originally posted by Ed11790:

  cockroaches have wings?

  
  walau, have you never seen a flying roach?

   

• Lorry`

  3 Dec 08, 10:13

  Not all.

   

  And i was told that only the pregnant ones have wings?

• vincentchean

  3 Dec 08, 23:20

  Originally posted by gasband:

  Only these who drink Red Bull

  
  nice.