As kids growing up in Houston, my neighborhood friends and I all had cockroach horror stories. Maybe one crawled across someone’s face at night or scuttled over their bare foot in the kitchen. I ...

These brown, 1 to ¼-inch long cockroaches often are politely called “palmetto bugs,” perhaps because smokybrowns are arboreal and climb trees, such as palmettos. That’s why you often see these ...

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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 ...

German cockroaches (Blattella Germanica) are one of the more common types of cockroaches. They were once believed to have originated in Europe, but this notion has since been debunked. In fact, they ...

Sarah Bradley is a writer with six years of experience creating personal essays, reported features, and content related to health and parenting topics. Cockroaches are common pests in homes, schools, ...

You’re minding your own business, cleaning your bathroom, when an unwelcome guest scuttles out of nowhere. Few among us wouldn’t recoil in disgust—or flat out run away—from the dreaded cockroach. And ...