Pest Organisms / German Cockroach
Beneficial Notes
for German Cockroach
No university or extension publication we located credits the German cockroach with any beneficial role. It is a household pest that lives strictly indoors and is moved around entirely by people, so there is no ecological-service case for tolerating it inside. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN128 Source: https://schoolipm.tamu.edu/forms/pest-management-plans/ipm-action-plan-for-german-cockroaches/