Australia.—Under decayed logs in coastal scrub. It burrows into the soft part of the log (Froggatt, 1906).
Parcoblatta bolliana
North Carolina.—Under pine straw on ground in pine woods (Brimley, 1908).
Texas.—Under dry cow dung in pine woods (Hebard, 1917).
Nebraska.—Under pile of old boards (Hauke, 1949).
Parcoblatta caudelli
North Carolina.—From under the bark of dead trees (Rehn and Hebard, 1910).
Virginia.—At night on shrubbery. In South Carolina, under sign on tree (Hebard, 1917).
Tennessee.—In traps baited with cornmeal, cantaloupe, or fish in a stand of oak on dry ridge, and in abandoned rocky field on a south-facing slope (Walker, 1957).