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Huge black bug with brown stripes (Wingless wood roach)

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Wingless wood roach
by: Moni

Anonymous
Assuming you do have the same wood roach as the photo, then yes, the mulch can be the reason there are more wood roaches around.
You can send us a photo for Id if you want to make sure that is what you have.
mulch bugs?
by: Anonymous

I believe I found one in my bath room. Nearly gave me a heart attack when I got out of the bath. You said it is a wood bug, because the neighborhood I live in had mulch everywhere. Would that be the cause of them.
Thank Moni
by: Jessica

Thanks for the identification Moni. I think we saw another one in a pallet of bricks that we had delivered.
Wingless wood roach
by: Moni

Jessica
This is a cockroach...not sure which one from your photo. It is probably in the Family Cryptocercidae. These species are wood roaches and feed on rotting logs, and are not a house pest like many other roaches, in fact it might be considered an important recycler of nutrients in decomposing wood.
It may have been attracted to porch lights and inadvertently got in when a door was opened, or come in on fire wood or something like that.
Put it back outside and you will both be happier!

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