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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.