It's the time of year when those big cockroaches some people call water bugs and others call palmetto bugs - but are really either the smoky brown or the American cockroach - come to call. If it's ...

Cockroaches are the houseguests that Tim Price and his wife, Diane, never wanted. Residents of Pasadena for 43 years, they thought they'd seen everything they were going to see on their property and ...

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 ...

Big cockroaches live beneath Price Hall at Virginia Tech University. The stately, gray, five-story building, built of stone over a century ago, houses the school's entomology department, whose ...

“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,… ...

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.