bugss - Blatta orientalis

Yes it is clearly the Oreinta

Yes it is clearly the Oriental roach and you should do something against them. Even if you keep your apartment clean, they will invade your place from time to time (has nothing to do with the renovation at your neighbors). If you have a lot of open food laying around or the garbage is in your house for a long time, these critters have a good time. And for every roach you see there might be 10 to 100 you do not see in your place, because they live very secretive. So call your Pest control guy and ask for help, or surf the web, at least you know now the species

… Martin Hauser, 9 August, 2006 - 12:55pm

Thank you all

I don't want it to be a roach but I believe you all now. But I am going to give you more history. I live in this house 40 years and it is a free standing house. Are these guy as bad as the german roaches I am familar with?????

Can we ever get rid of them. gross.

… Debra, 9 August, 2006 - 4:53pm

These roaches walk towards yo

These roaches walk towards your house and they are always trying to find new places to live (The females do not have wings and never fly). The bad thing is that they nearly eat everything, like wallpaper, catfood, the crumbs beneath your stove etc. So there is plenty of food for them. They need high humidity and love damp basements and crawlspaces, especially when a waterpipe leaks... So try to make your home a dry, put a dehumidifier in the basement , look for waterleaks. The ones in your pic look like larvae, so maybe you had a female invading you home and dropping its egg case there.
They are not so skilled in running up walls like the German roach. Do not confuse them with the Asian Roach, which looks lilke the German one and is mainly found in Florida.

… Martin Hauser, 9 August, 2006 - 6:14pm

Are they pennsylvania wood ro

Are they pennsylvania wood roaches????? Someone said oriental roaches??

Do they infest like german roaches????

… Debra, 9 August, 2006 - 6:49pm

No, the woodroach is more bro

No, the woodroach is more brownish, winged also only in males and has a light yellow band around the body and the scientific name is Parcoblatta pennsylvanica. They are ahrmless outdoor roaches which only accidentally come into homes and never live there. Your roach is nearly black and has no yellow margin around the body, it is the Oriental Roach, Blatta orientalis, also called "Waterbug" (which is very wrong cause it is not a true bug, nor do they live in water). The females are very hard to distinguish from the pictures alone. But it looks like a Oriental roach, but only from pics I can not bee 100% sure.

… Martin Hauser, 9 August, 2006 - 7:05pm

martin

how do you know it is larval?

Are they as hard to deal with as a german roach?

debra

… Debra, 9 August, 2006 - 8:15pm

Just a guess, they get adult

Just a guess, they get adult when they are 1 inch, so all the smaller ones are larvae and the males have wings when they are adult. The females should have visible wing veneition when they are adult. Here some links which might help you:
http://www.exosect.com/solutions/pests/cockroach.asp
http://www.a-1pest.com/roaches.htm
http://pested.unl.edu/roachind.htm
http://pested.unl.edu/cockcom.htm
http://pested.unl.edu/appenxd.htm

… Martin Hauser, 9 August, 2006 - 9:02pm

Blatta orientalis?

(maybe?)

… brian reily, 9 August, 2006 - 11:27am

Cockroach of some type(not th

Cockroach of some type(not the German). Very secretive. Probably been there always. You ought to see the size of them down here in coastal South Carolina. They try to pretty up the name by calling it a "Palmetto Bug", but they are just a Roach on steroids.

… Richard Lareau, 9 August, 2006 - 9:25am