Pest Organisms / Oriental Cockroach
Where Found
This roach is wedded to cool, damp, dark places. Indoors it favors basements, cellars, crawl spaces, floor drains, and spaces under sinks and refrigerators; outdoors it shelters in moist, shaded litter, mulch, and along foundations. Source: https://extension.usu.edu/planthealth/ipm/notes_nuisance/oriental-cockroach Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN316
It is peridomestic — at home both indoors and out — and hardy enough to overwinter outdoors in milder climates. UF/IFAS calls it a major U.S. household pest in parts of the Northwest, Midwest, and South. Source: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g7384 Source: https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/environmental-health-protection/structural-pest-control/cockroaches.html Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN316