“I hate to interrupt, there’s a big cockroach on the wall, over your head there. We’ll defer that — no insecticide, no roach-icide in the briefing, Matt,” Miller said,… ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — A lowly hissing cockroach at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield is causing a stir in the global scientific community. Invertebrate Keeper Nicole Pruess found ...

Smokybrown cockroach. Adults are 1.5 inches and uniformly dark cherry to dark red colored. Males and females are visually indistinguishable, although females are a little wider than males.