Check if your German cockroaches are pests or just harmless occasional visitors from outdoors

Ironically that native German cockroaches are not pests and don't even live in apartments. And the so-called “German” cockroaches are, in fact, aliens from Asia, unable to survive in Germany outside of residential premises.
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0:00 The German cockroach, a well-known pest. Can it live outside of human habitation in Germany? Where is it found in the wild?
0:15 Another roach that lives in the wild in Germany does not live in houses and does not harm people or food. Photo from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
0:53 A similar cockroach, also caught in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in Dusseldorf.
0:59 Another cockroach from western Germany.
1:07 Paradox: no species of roach native to Germany is called German. But the name German got a species that comes from tropical Asia and does not live in the wild anywhere in Germany, or even near Germany. Even the latin name of this species is Blattela germanica, because Linnaeus, who gave it the name, believed that these cockroaches originated in Germany.
2:07 Why are wild native cockroaches of the genus Ectobius often confused with the German cockroach? Female German cockroach besides females of three species of Ectobiuses.
2:21 Are there household pests among wild German cockroaches?
2:38 Can native German roaches settle in human housing? Is it worth starting to remove them if they appear in the house?
3:08 How to distinguish a German cockroach from an Ectobius?
3:43 Example of identification of forest roaches from Germany, which the girl found in her apartment.
4:04 The most noticeable and unambiguous difference between the German cockroach and any deutsch representatives of the genus Ectobius is two noticeable longitudinal black stripes running down the pronotum.
4:50 The coloration of the pronotum in different species of forest cockroaches.
4:57 Pronotum coloration in tawny and amber wood cockroaches.
5:04 Peculiarities of coloration of females of dusky cockroaches.
5:13 Coloration of the pronotum in males of dusky and forest cockroaches.
5:33 In what other countries, except Germany, you can find such small brown cockroaches similar to croton bugs?
6:00 Here, for example, is a photo from New York City:
6:03 Here is a cockroach from New England, USA:
6:06 Here's roach from London:
6:08 Light brown cockroach from New Jersey:
6:09 German-like cockroach from Netherlands:
6:10 Exemplar from Switzerland:
6:12 Tawny cockroach in Balta, Ukraine:
6:14 Male dusky cockroach in Ukrainian Carpathians:
6:16 Forest cockroach from Kazan, Russia:
6:17 Tiny roaches from Sochi:
6:19 Ectobius representative from Omsk:
6:20 And another one from Belarus:
6:41 To identify your cockroaches, send photos and videos of them to [email protected]

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