Oriental cockroaches and American cockroaches are both widely known as household pests around the world. They have a similar ...

Practice smart sanitation in the kitchen. Keep food in sealed containers. Clean up all spills and crumbs as they occur.

After a stretch of heavy rain and humidity, New Orleans residents are dealing with a different kind of storm: giant flying ...

Had cockroaches not been able to survive for the past 300 million years, Earth would not be as healthy as it is today.

The smokybrown cockroach is also referred to as a palmetto bug, and this species looks slightly different than the average American cockroach. Adult smokybrown cockroaches are dark mahogany in ...

Wood roaches are cockroaches that are like termites. They're also called brown-hooded cockroaches. Wood roaches closely resemble other cockroaches, like American cockroaches, which can make them ...

Its closely related cousin, the American cockroach, can go further. If a single female American roach wants to start a new family, she can do so without waiting for any male cockroaches to turn up.

American cockroaches hang out in a small exhibit built of a doll's house at the Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in New Orleans on Thursday, July 2, 2015.

German cockroaches are small, usually around half an inch long, and have two black parallel lines that run from their head to end of their wings, according to Orkin.An American cockroach is larger ...

American cockroaches usually measure about 1 1/2 to 2 inches long and are reddish-brown with a yellow thorax. German, on the other hand, ...