Just a cockroach
I am replying to the question concerning David Brown’s photograph of August 26 as to what the insect is. It is a periplaneta Australasiae or in plain English, an Australian cockroach. Unlike politicians, these creatures are quite harmless
JOHN WILSON (bugologist), York Road, Headington
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