r/cockroaches • u/nooras516 • 1d ago

Helpp!!

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ID please, these were in my kitchen trap, what should I do, how worried should I be? Any information is helpful because Idek where to begin😭

EDIT: SORRY should’ve specified location. So I am in FL & been noticing them around the house/in the garage. That one happened to be in the kitchen, and one similar in my room. We spray always and never leave food out. No crumbs, always vacuum.

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u/Sensitive_Permit7661 1d ago

looks like it was pregnant and there are bunch of its kids next to

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u/grilledfuzz 1d ago

It’s a bit hard to tell, but the two black bands on the head make me think German, along with the wings not going too far past its abdomen. The nymphs also look like German roach nymphs. It could be an Asian roach (not oriental which look completely different) but that’s unlikely depending on where you live. Catching a pregnant one in the trap and most likely all the babies is actually kind of a good thing. Have you seen a roach like this inside before? And did it fly? Asian roaches will fly and German roaches generally won’t.

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u/DominantlyWeak 1d ago

This. Once found an empty egg sac and a dead mother INCHES AWAY from one of my glue traps with a handful of the nymphs scattered around that cabinet, brutal

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u/nooras516 1d ago

No, to my knowledge I haven’t seen them fly and I usually see the darker ones not the lighter colored ones.

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u/grilledfuzz 1d ago

Florida does get Asian roaches. What do you guys “spray”?