How to prevent palmetto bugs from invading your home? In Florida, cockroaches are kind of like water, if there is a place for them to crawl into, you can bet they’ll find it.

If you’ve spotted some of these critters wandering around inside your home or just a bit too close for comfort, keep reading to learn how to get rid of them.

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

Palmetto bugs such as the Florida woods cockroach live in southeastern America in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. Typical outdoor palmetto bug habitats include: Palm trees ...

Palmetto bugs are a type of cockroach, but they have different traits than other kinds of cockroaches. Since they are typically found near palmetto trees in South Carolina and Florida, ...

ATHENS -- It’s summertime, and there are a few things residents of the Deep South can count on this time of year — heat, humidity and insects.

But a palmetto bug is just a cockroach.” Coming in close contact with cockroaches may lead to tetanus and tuberculosis infection, according to experts with the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Palmetto bugs (cockroaches) Palmetto bugs, water bugs, Florida wood cockroach, these are all different names for the same thing — the good ol’ American cockroach.

At the top of the list are cockroaches and palmetto bugs. ... “That name palmetto bug originated in Florida. That's where people saw these big critters on palm trees.

The term palmetto bug is a more polite nickname often used in states like South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida to describe larger species of cockroaches. According to Orkin , the two most ...

You may have Palmetto bugs around your South Carolina home. Here are five things to know about this SC pest. ... The nickname has also been applied to the Florida woods cockroach as well.