Roach

Yuck! Heard about them, never have seen one. Should I be doing something to kill them (Roach Motel sort of thing??)

I suspect that you have more than a few...they hate light. You need to treat..they are hard to get rid of.

It looks like a nymph Palmetto bug or Florida Woods Cockroach. They eat composting vegetation. They are icky but not the problem German Cockroaches are.

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/roaches/florida_woods_cockroach.htm

Cockroach, probably everybody's favorite American cockroach Periplaneta americana. It might be the closely related smoky brown, but...yeah. It's a halfgrown cockroach, of the kind that will happily settle in your home.

1980s roach motel story...at my husband's office connected to a warehouse, the roaches were driving him crazy so I placed multiple roach motels in his office. I was horrified when I checked to find the motels so full of roaches that the other roaches were eating their counterparts at leisure and not getting trapped.

Needless to say, NOTHING came into my house from that place except my husband! Even then, I worried about his clothing hiding a hitch-hiker.

Ugh, we had German cockroaches in a previous home. Terrible! Had multiple visits from the exterminator. What finally seemed to work was a regular treatment, followed by removing outlet covers and treating directly into the walls too. Good luck!

Wow, had no idea... I see a couple of them a year, mostly in the sink in the morning, but this is a vacation house so we aren't there that much. I'll set out a bunch of roach motels when we go there next, just to see how bad the problem is. Darn, I lived for a year in NYC and this was the first cockroach I've ever seen. :( . Thanks for all of your help, everyone!

Hard to believe you've not seen one before now. They are EVERYWHERE.

If it's a woodsy area you might just be getting strays. If there's no roach poop in your cupboards, that's probably the case.

Chess, I guess that I've been lucky...

Fori, roach poop? I've never seen anything in my cupboards that aren't supposed to be there. Because of (not wanting to attract) mice, I also clean the counters and floors thoroughly before we leave; I'm sure that I would notice anything out of the ordinary. And, yes, we are in a very woodsy area. I do still want to lay down a couple of roach motels, just to see. It's usually 4-6 weeks between visits there, so that should be enough time to accumulate a few generations...

Oh, lord; I'm glad we live in the dry side of the PNW. I haven't seen a roach since I lived in PA decades ago. Don't miss them.

I hate to say this, but they can live in your garbage disposal/sink drain. I had that problem in a NYC apartment. And in my experience roach poop doesn't look like mouse poop, it looks like dry coffee grounds.

There's some random spam! I love the runnels in this spam but without a lowered section between the two sinks, it's sort of fixing one problem while creating a second, worse problem.