They don’t just poop on surfaces, they also leave “fecal spots.” These brown, semi-liquid deposits from their rear end contain pheromones that attract other roaches to the site. You can find fecal spots in tight spaces and cracks and crevices where cockroaches hide such as behind pictures on walls or in the space along kitchen
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1. The most common cockroach living in homes in the Northeast is the American cockroach? TRUE or FALSE? FALSE. It’s the much smaller German cockroach. The large American cockroach is sometimes found in lower levels of commercial buildings such as office buildings or in sewers. 2. A German cockroach female gives live birth to an
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Is there a big black cockroach that lives outdoors? It doesn’t look like cockroaches I’ve seen inside. These bugs are mostly around the foundation but lately I’ve found a couple inside in our basement storage room. Will the same kind of cockroach sprays work on these guys? Can I use the spray outside? V. B.,
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My mother lives in an apartment that has cockroaches – bad! She has breathing problems and we just found out that she won’t complain to management about the roaches because she can’t tolerate the spray that the exterminator uses. If they do come around, she says she’s sick and can’t be treated. Trouble is she
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All of a sudden we have cockroaches in our house! At least they look like cockroaches. They’re bigger than the cockroaches that we used to see when we lived in an apartment in the city, and lighter-colored, and the worst thing is that they fly! How can we get rid of them? D. E., Malden,
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The community room of our condo building is on the lowest level near the parking garage. On more than one occasion when we’ve been having a board meeting there, we’ve seen really large reddish-brown cockroaches. I think they’re coming in from the parking garage but the others think they’re migrating from the bakery next door.
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For those in the Northeast who have entomophobia (fear of insects), winter is a welcome relief. Mosquitoes are gone, temporarily. Yellowjackets are gone, temporarily. Even the foraging ants are gone, fortunately. Unfortunately, what hasn’t gone are the indoor pests (What Happens to Indoor Insects in Winter?). Winter might slow them down a bit as average
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I live in a 12-floor apartment building that has trash chutes on each floor and a compactor in the basement garbage room. The trash chute rooms are always a mess, not just because people leave their garbage on the floor, but management never monitors the chute rooms or cleans them up. As a result, we
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All of a sudden we’re finding these big dark bugs in our basement. I thought they were black beetles but after looking on the Internet, I think they’re cockroaches! Isn’t it kind of late in the season for cockroaches to appear? D. W., Roslindale, MA If your pests are indeed cockroaches, they’re probably oriental cockroaches.
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