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

Cockroach nymphs don’t have wings. They only develop wings in their adult stage. A female cockroach mates and carries around the eggs or ootheca, which is pillow-shaped and has up to 48 eggs, ...

Adult males have wings and can fly. Female wood roaches have shorter wings or small wing pads and can’t fly. Females are smaller, shinier, and darker in color than males.

Wings: Although adult American cockroaches do have wings, they rarely fly. On rare occasions, adults might fly a short distance. They prefer gliding and crawling to get from place to place.

Asian cockroaches are similar in shape, size, and color to German cockroaches, but have longer and more narrow wings. They’re originally from Japan, but are now common in the southern U.S. and ...

That cockroach living with you isn’t a stupid pest waiting to be slammed with ... Even though they are quite resilient, cockroaches’ wings, legs and antennae break off rather easily.

During a routine health inspection at a Touchdown Wings in Lawrenceville, a small live roach was inside a flour container, and the ice machine had a mold-like substance inside.

The German cockroach evolved to live only in human environments. This roach is very good at adapting to pest control methods — even if it means changing its mating rituals.

When a male roach wants to mate with a female roach, he will back up to her, secreting a solution called a nuptial gift from a gland under his wings. In this case, the gift was rejected. Credit ...