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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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