Water bugs, also known as Oriental cockroaches, can be a major nuisance. Learn where they hide to hopefully keep them away ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While cockroaches can seem like just a nuisance, their presence can pose some real health risks. Cockroaches carry bacteria that ...

Smokybrown cockroaches are often also called palmetto bugs and water bugs.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most of us aren't experts at bug identification—especially because most common house insects look alike.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.