The most common type of cockroach that you'll find in the United States is the German cockroach. Despite its name, these cockroaches are believed to have originated from either Asia or Africa.

The German cockroach is one well-adapted bug. All our attempts to wipe it out is only making it stronger. It's evolved to avoid poison bait laced with glucose — something few living things do.

The world’s most widespread type of cockroach — a tiny, tan pest called the German cockroach — is at this moment crawling ...

If you ever saw a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor or a restaurant wall, chances are it was a German cockroach. The German roach is the most common of the 70 different cockroach ...

The find, at the Makimuku ruins in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, caused a stir because it constitutes the world’s oldest known example of a German cockroach (Blattella germanica) and raises the ...