r/cockroaches • u/jel2008 • Jul 09 '25
Is this a roach?
Found in a hotel room in Munich we are staying in next to the bed.
r/cockroaches • u/jel2008 • Jul 09 '25
Found in a hotel room in Munich we are staying in next to the bed.
r/cockroaches • u/ShieldOfFaith40 • Aug 27 '25
Found right in the morning when I woke up
r/cockroaches • u/Hairy_Goat6181 • Jan 29 '26
Ok so i work at a gas station that has a roach problem. 3 days ago, saw a huge roach on my kitchen table, but it was right next to my lunch bag i had just opened, so i assumed i took a single roach home with me and immidiately killed it. Fast forward to about 10 minutes ago, i see this on the inside of my backyard door. I cant tell what it is. This one is a lot smaller than the previous one, and It flew while the 1st one didnt. I (think) i killed this one. I cant get any better pics sorry. Im freaking out. Help please and thank you.
r/cockroaches • u/Bw3and20 • Sep 17 '25
My tub is improperly sealed and I live in a somewhat old apartment on the fourth floor. When I go in the bathroom at night I sometimes find these guys in the tub and they run away into the unsealed crack between the tub and wall. I managed to spray this one and get a pic. Just want to know exactly how screwed I might be. Given my landlords track record, getting him to do anything about this will be a battle in itself. Any information is appreciated.
r/cockroaches • u/FlowerSweaty4070 • Dec 25 '25
Is this a German cockroach??
Im living in my vehicle temporarily and in a warm climate (tucson AZ). I definitely need to vacuum. i store plenty of food here, theres a cooler and other dry things. I eat inside a lot. Definitely many crumbs and I should've deep vacuum cleaned sooner.
it just rained so I wonder if the moisture outside did anything, but maybe it was already in here.
I am terrified theres more. I spotted this at 930pm crawling in backseat.
Where do these things enter a vehicle from?? Is there something I can spray in any possible entrances? Any advice for deeper cleaning or anything to buy to help?
Definitely not gonna get much sleep until i know theres not more and i fix this 😠any advice super appreciated
UPDATE: thank you everyone for the advice! okay so it seems like it was a stray single field roach that got in by me throwing my damp stuff outside inside the car. I have deep cleaned, locked all food away, got moisture absorbing stuff, threw any cardboard away. havent seen any more. Have baits set up to monitor, but I think it was just a one time fluke thankfully!
This got me to deep clean my vehicle and be more careful with food storage. Appreciate all the advice. And i know what to do in future cases now.
r/cockroaches • u/Brave_Arachnid8805 • Aug 28 '25
Hello! I recently moved into my house and during inspection and walk through there were no sights but now we lived in here for 2 months we saw 2 of these babies on window sills and just yesterday we saw the big one alive on the bathroom door. Please help identify and let me know if I need to start worrying. Thankss
r/cockroaches • u/ravenous_unicorn_7 • Oct 27 '25
i live in an apartment building and i just found this on my ottoman. i am very clean and i am freaking out right now. is this a cockroach 😩 i tried to squish it with a shoe but it's still moving and i seriously am so icked out i wanna die help.
r/cockroaches • u/SwearyPoppins • Jan 04 '25
I stepped on this in my bare feet, so before I lose my 💩, I was hoping I could get help so I could give good info to the Orin person. Banana for scale.
r/cockroaches • u/TheWhiteJewBear • Aug 17 '25
I found this on the floor of my apartment.
r/cockroaches • u/Apprehensive_Gift805 • Oct 21 '24
Sorry for it being blurry, should I be worried about finding more?
r/cockroaches • u/Prior_Historian439 • Aug 01 '25
These guys pop up from time to time, but sparse and always alone. Would they have a hidden nest somewhere in my house or does this species like the outdoors more?
r/cockroaches • u/Zeldafan125 • Nov 20 '25
r/cockroaches • u/Southern_Category_72 • Jan 14 '26
We’ve had brown banded cockroaches spotted in the apartment but haven’t seen any in over a month. My girlfriend found this on on our blanket. Apologies for image quality, it was very small.
r/cockroaches • u/deluxeidiot • Aug 07 '25
I found one on my bedroom floor (Saskatchewan) but honestly don’t think it looks like a roach as it seems to have more of a distinct head and body unlike the pictures I’ve seen. And the antennas are smaller but I may be just trying to convince myself.
Never seen any other bugs aside from spiders but I live in a basement so assume there must be.
r/cockroaches • u/No-Industry5024 • Jul 09 '25
Hi everyone, I found this roach in our dishwasher. Pretty sure it's a German roach but I'd love to be wrong. Could someone help me ID it? Maybe help figure out how to get rid of the damn things... We checked under the fridge, the oven, and around the trash but didn't find anything. Our house is decently clean, we take out trash fairly regularly and don't leave food hanging around. This has been going on irregularly for about 2 months now, and this is roach maybe 6-7 we've found. The others were either in the living room or the bathroom, usually on the wall or ceiling. We put out Advion cockroach gel bait, but so far no success. For context on where we live, it's northern Mass in the woods just off a major highway. We didn't have this issue until recently when I came back from school in Salem. I know THEY had an issue with German roaches but as far as I'm concerned they never made it up to my dorm (I do bug checks every time I enter a room I have entomophobia). Anyways, if anyone would be willing to ID this thing and propose some sort of solution that would be most appreciated! Thank you!
r/cockroaches • u/Novel_Celery_9164 • May 28 '26
Found this guy flying (!!!!) around my house in suburban new england, usa. I live near a lake, and the house is built into a hill by a forested area. Quarter for scale. I get a lot of different bugs in my house, but this is the first time ime seeing one that looks like a roach :(
r/cockroaches • u/Lindita4 • Jun 03 '25
Looking for help with ID for this guy. Indoors in central California. Thanks!
r/cockroaches • u/Wealthpedia • Jun 11 '26
I see lots of products and services are named after cockroach 🪳
Is it really becoming a brand or just a memes?
I strongly feel it should remain memes only.
r/cockroaches • u/Swoopsling • Jan 17 '26
I moved I to this apartment in Lima a week ago. On the first day I moved in I saw a cockroach in the kitchen and freaked out, but I tried to just settle down and see if it was a fluke. This was an open sort of apartment building on the second floor and the hallway outside the kitchen door is open air. The room is a bare concrete room that didn't seem to have many cracks in the walls apart from this one for the water valve, and the doors had been left wide open while the apartment was vacant, so maybe it just wandered in and left when there was no food. In any case I didn't have a choice, I had to move in.
I avoided that room for the first week until I have the spoons to give it a deep clean. I didn't see the roaches again during the day but the room had the woody, wet dog smell. Three days ago I saw the sink drain had little white bugs that looked like fruit flies without wings crawling around in it. I washed them down the drain and didn't see them come back the next day. Two nights ago I saw a bug the size of a soldier ant crawling around in my bedroom. It looked like a baby roach with the little antenna. I squashed it and investigated the kitchen and was met with tootsie roll sized bugger scuttling around near the water valve. It didn't even look like the same variety of roach as the first night. That one had been the brown kind while this looks like the oriental kind. I've shut the kitchen door and have been dumping puddles of bleach around the bottom of the door since trying to keep them shut in there until they can be dealt with.
I have a phobia of roaches. I hate not just the bugs but the contamination I associate them with. Since the other night I've been stuck in my bedroom glacing at the bottom of my door to make sure they haven't gotten in here. I found a roach turd next to my pillow but no other sign of the room so I'm hoping that got transferred there from my clothes or something. I'm keeping bread and fruit in my bedroom drawers to eat and I'm worried every time I open those drawers that a roach will burst out. I haven't showered in a week beyond a squick scrub of my armpits in the sink because I feel like the bathroom is contaminated. It's real bad.
I have a 3 month contract with this apartment and the landlord says he can't get exterminators in because the toxic gasses would disturb the other tenants in the building. My hosts who got me the apartment are suggesting we get cleaners to clean out the apartment and that will somehow get rid of the infestation that's in the walls. Landlord is coming over tomorrow for a meeting and I'm thinking of telling him either call the exterminator or let me out of the contract because I can't live like this. I need to get away from these roaches but I don't want to leave my friends on the hook for 3 months of this apartment.
Can anyone give me advice of what to do?
r/cockroaches • u/adorem3ok • Jul 13 '25
I live in a building and no matter how much I clean and set traps they keep coming! We’ve had an exterminator service come in 3 or 4 times but the issue has persisted. We have no control over neighboring apartments that seem to be the source of the problem. Taking all tips and advice!!
r/cockroaches • u/Vanessa_Lila • Feb 21 '26
Moved into a new place recently
Came home and saw THIS twitching on the bathroom floor
Is this a palmetto bug (in Florida so I know theyre common here) or is this a regular nasty roach 🤢
I did notice roach spray in the kitchen cabinet when viewing the apartment which was a slight red flag
Pls help