Common name.—Japanese quail.
Natural prey.—Blattidae (unidentified) and Lobopterella dimidiatipes, Hawaii (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1949).
Domestic chicken
Natural and experimental prey.—Blaberus craniifer, U.S.A., Key West, Florida. J.A.G. Rehn in 1912 (personal communication) observed chickens feeding on nymphs of B. craniifer which had dropped to the ground from among stacked coffins in an undertaker's shack.
Blatta orientalis, U.S.A. (Rau, 1924): The chickens ate cockroaches that were caught in traps.
Hebardina concinna, Japan (Asano, 1937): Experimental feeding to white Leghorn chickens.
Periplaneta americana, Surinam (Stage, 1947): Several cockroaches ran off the floor of a house, which was being sprayed with DDT, and were eaten by chickens. Although some chickens had DDT tremors the next day, all appeared normal two days later.
Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Australia (Fielding, 1926); Formosa, experimental feeding (Kobayashi, 1927); Australia, experimental feeding (Fielding, 1927, 1928); U.S.A., Florida, experimental feeding (Sanders, 1928); Antigua (Hutson, 1943); Hawaii (Illingworth, 1931; Schwabe, 1949, 1950a, 1950b). This cockroach is the intermediate host of Oxyspirura mansoni, the chicken eye worm.
Cockroaches, Guadeloupe (Dutertre, 1654); Africa (Moiser, 1947): "Poultry" ate cockroaches which had been killed by DDT and sodium fluoride. Hawaii (Zimmerman, 1948).