What kind of roaches are these?
Telling a German from an Asian cockroach, or identifying fast black roaches, is difficult when the bugs do not match standard descriptions. The process gets especially confusing when behavior contradicts expected traits, such as a supposedly slow and sluggish Oriental roach moving like lightning.
Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found3 items attempted
Community agreement2 total upvotes
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Posting photos of found pests to online forums for community identification.Did this help you?
- 2doing the pesticide myselfDid this help you?
- 3treating the perimeter and any damp spots matters more than chasing them around insideDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Pestcontrol2 people · November 2026
“Just wanted to know if it was a German or Asian cockroach.”source ↗
lwood71 · r/Pestcontrol · 1 upvotes