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black/brown roach (American cockroach)

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wood eating cockroach
by: Anonymous

I have been finding the same slow moving beetle as well over the past year, I looked it up and best matched it to a cockroach that eats wood. its not the usual house cockroach because they feed off of wood. hope this helps
Cockroach
by: Moni

Jennifer
It is hard to ID to species without personally seeing the insect, but my guess is the American cockroach. It also looks a little like an Oriental cockroach.
Have you seen any with wings?

Usually cockroaches are active at night and move fast. If you came into the room and turned the light on perhaps that is why they are moving slow...not sure otherwise.
American cockroaches develop slowly...it can easily take well over 1yr to 1 1/2 yrs to go from egg to adult. The photo here looks like a nymph and from the size you say it is half grown.

Cockroaches like to eat all kinds of food, grease, garbage, cotton, wool, cardboard, glue and crumbs of all kinds. Sanitation is the first line of control. They live in sewer in big cities and move from house to house thru and cracks or crevices. Even clean homes can have a few come in. Next, there are baits and sticky traps to catch the roaches. These can be found at hardware or similar type stores.
If you know where they are coming from or where most of them live you can sprinkle diatomaceous earth which cuts into their skin and they dry up - follow label directions.

Here is info from Univ of Nebraska that covers cockroaches in the house very thoroughly -
http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/factsheets/120-94.htm
Since you are in Indy, you could call Insects Limited, Inc...and ask for recommendations...they work with indoor pests and are a company that I trust to guide you to safe control of cockroaches.
CockRoach
by: eyewatcher

It is best to KILL all now before they begin reproducing...then you will have a MAJOR cockroach problem. If u dont want to use the normal spray , they do have organic. I have found Bengal foggers are the BEST. Down here in Louisiana, we have HUGE tree roaches that scurry in the house .....just a normal process...but we have to spray around the perimeter of the yard and the house perimeter about every three weeks. We dont have to spray the interior as long as the exterior is clean.
harmless insect
by: Anonymous

A harmless little bug. Please don't use insecticide!

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