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Cockroaches can be major pests in restaurants, hospitals, warehouses, offices and buildings with food-handling areas. They secrete a substance that can stain surfaces and produce bad odors. They can also destroy fabric and paper products.
How to identify cockroaches
Four kinds of cockroaches can infest homes:
- German cockroach
- Brown-banded cockroach
- American cockroach
- Oriental cockroach
Submit a sample to an insect specialist or a pest management expert if you have trouble identifying the type of cockroach you have.
Cockroach egg cases
- A cockroach has a flattened, oval body and long antennae (about the length of their body).
- When looking at a cockroach from above, its head is hidden from view.
- It has six strong legs covered with spines.
- Many adult cockroaches have fully developed wings, but only few fly.
- Young, immature cockroaches resemble adults but are smaller and do not have wings.
Life cycle of cockroaches
- A cockroach has three stages during its life cycle: egg, nymph and adult.
- Adults lay eggs contained within dark-colored egg cases (size and shape of a dry kidney bean).
- Depending on the species, an egg case contains 16 – 50 eggs.
- Eggs hatch into young cockroaches called nymphs, which are more numerous than adults.
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