Croton bug

noun

C19: named after the Croton river, whose water was piped to New York City in 1842

It is a small black-beetle or cockroach, called by scientists "Blatta germanica" and by others the "Croton Bug."

If you dislike to touch the cockroach so much, perhaps you will look at this picture of a croton bug.

The Croton bug (Ectobia germanica) as a factor in bacterial dissemination.

We call it the croton bug, but it is not a bug at all, it is a cockroach.

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