German cockroaches
Small brown invaders
German cockroaches are a small, light-brown species of cockroach that thrives indoors, particularly in kitchens and bathrooms.
Despite the name, they likely originated in Southeast Asia.
They're the most common household cockroach worldwide, notorious for rapid reproduction and resistance to pesticides: The apartment had a German cockroach infestation.
- pestHarmful creature or nag
- invertebrateAnimal sans backbone
- infestationPest takeover situation
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- arthropodJointed-limb invertebrate phylum
pest control · water bugs · species · allergens · asthma triggers · insects · crevices · antennae · aggregation · pheromones · egg cases · bug bomb · spray can · traps · nocturnal · late night snack · habitat · food contamination
German cockroachesbeneficial insects
Arthropods aiding agriculture
honeybees · ladybugs · pollinators · butterflies · praying mantises
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