Practice smart sanitation in the kitchen. Keep food in sealed containers. Clean up all spills and crumbs as they occur.

Another type of cockroach you may hear people talk about in the South is a palmetto bug. Actually, that’s just a more “polite” name for large cockroaches such as Americans and smokybrowns.

Another type of cockroach you may hear people talk about in the South is a palmetto bug. Actually, that’s just a more “polite” name for large cockroaches such as Americans and smokybrowns. “It may ...

These crawling (and sometimes flying) critters can quickly go from an occasional nuisance to a full-blown infestation in ...

Palmetto bugs are a kind of roach, meaning they prefer to live outdoors, but they will enter homes in search of food, water or warmth, where they’ll often lay eggs.

Palmetto bugs are a kind of roach, meaning they prefer to live outdoors, but they will enter homes in search of food, water or warmth, where they’ll often lay eggs.

Palmetto bugs are a kind of roach, meaning they prefer to live outdoors, but they will enter homes in search of food, water or warmth, where they’ll often lay eggs.

Had cockroaches not been able to survive for the past 300 million years, Earth would not be as healthy as it is today.