Pest Organisms / American Cockroach
Where Found
This is largely an outdoor and below-ground insect. UF reports its strongholds are damp and below-grade: drains, sewers, steam tunnels, and building basements, with outdoor populations in shady cover such as hollow trees, woodpiles, and mulch. Texas A&M adds that it slips inside through cracks around loose doors and windows and where pipes or wires pass through walls. By day it rests near water pipes, sinks, and baths, and it does best in warm, humid conditions above about 82 degrees F. In colder regions UF notes it concentrates in heated institutional buildings. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/in298 Source: https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/blattodea/american-cockroach/ Source: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/cockroaches/