Brown Banded Cockroach Facts & Information
Protect your home or business from brown banded cockroaches by learning techniques for identification and control.
Treatment
How do I get rid of brown banded cockroaches?
What Orkin Does
Orkin Pros are trained to help manage roaches. Since every home is different, the Orkin Pro will design a unique cockroach treatment program for your situation.
Keeping these roaches out of your home is an ongoing process, not a one-time treatment. Orkin’s exclusive A.I.M. solution is a continuing cycle of three critical steps—Assess, Implement and Monitor.
Orkin provide the right solution to keep brown-banded cockroaches in their place...out of your home.
Frequently Asked Questions
Behavior, Diet & Habits
Understanding Brown Banded Cockroaches
Appearance
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Size: one of the smallest of the invasive cockroaches, the adult brown-banded cockroach may reach 11 to 14.5 mm in length.
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Color: These colorful roaches received their name from the light brown or tan transverse bands that are present on the wings of the adult and across the body of the young, or nymphs.
More information about their colors.
Habitat
Brown-banded cockroaches prefer dry and warm locations and can be found inside cabinets, pantries and closets. They can also be found in electronic equipment or around refrigerator motor housings. Brown-banded cockroaches can also hide from humans in a variety of places such as clocks and picture frames. They tend to avoid water sources and are more commonly found near the ceilings of infested homes. Read more information about their habitat.
Nocturnal
Active primarily at night, the brown-banded cockroach may be seen wandering in search of food during the day.
Diet
Brown-banded cockroaches, like other cockroach species, are opportunistic feeders. However, when provided a choice, they have a preference for materials with a higher starch content, such as book bindings, wallpaper glue and stamps.
Life Cycle
An adult brown-banded cockroach can live anywhere from 130 to 315 days, with an average life span of 206 days. During that time, a female brown-banded cockroach will produce approximately 14 egg capsules, or oothecas, during the course of her life. She produces the ootheca, which contains an average of 10 to 18 eggs, carries it for approximately 24 to 36 hours, and then attaches it to the protected underside of a surface until the young hatch. Once the young hatch, the time needed to develop varies greatly depending upon the environmental conditions, ranging from as few as 90 days in ideal conditions or as many as 276 in more harsh environments.