North Carolina summers bring the heat — and with it, an uptick in unwanted houseguests like cockroaches. According to ...

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In particular, the German cockroach (Blattella germanica) and the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) were brought from Africa to the Americas on slave ships.

Though there are over 4,000 species of cockroaches, Louisiana's roach roster includes the American, German, Oriental, Brown-banded and Pennsylvania Wood cockroach.

American cockroaches hang out in a small exhibit built of a doll's house at the Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in New Orleans on Thursday, July 2, 2015.

In Albuquerque, we tend to see mostly German and American cockroaches, says Curator of Entomology at the ABQ BioPark, Alex Miller.

One American cockroach female produces 200 to 300 offspring in a year, lays eggs weekly and matures her baby nymphs in six weeks.

Smokybrown and American cockroaches can be found pretty much anywhere. How to identify them (and keep them out).

Its closely related cousin, the American cockroach, can go further. If a single female American roach wants to start a new family, she can do so without waiting for any male cockroaches to turn up ...