They’re the roommates no one wants, and no one wants to see scurrying across the kitchen counter or floor when the lights are switched on: German cockroaches.

German cockroaches are small, but they are mighty. They are hard to get rid of without the help of a professional exterminator, and even then, their rapid reproductive cycle makes it a chore to ...

One of the most common species, German cockroaches are generally about 13 to 16 mm in length, light brown in color and identifiable by two stripes behind the head. Males and females have wings ...

German cockroaches are small, usually around half an inch long, and have two black parallel lines that run from their head to end of their wings, according to Orkin. An American cockroach is ...

German cockroaches spend most of their lives hiding and only come out to feed and mate. They take about 2 months to grow from egg to adult. Their complete lifecycle usually takes about 100 days.

To be clear, all these movements and migrations would have been unwittingly aided by people. (Read how cockroaches have neighborhoods, too.) “The German cockroach can’t even fly,” says Qian ...

One female German cockroach can lay around 40 egg cases at once and will lay around 200-250 during her lifetime. Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals.

A genomic analysis of 281 cockroaches collected from 17 countries around the world suggests that Blattella germanica, the German cockroach, originated in India or Myanmar around 2,100 years ago.

German cockroaches are small, usually around half an inch long, and have two black parallel lines that run from their head to end of their wings, according to Orkin. An American cockroach is ...