nymph of a cockroach

5851   I discovered these bugs on a shelf in my cupboard . It happened at the beginning of September when I found cockroaches and started cleaning my food cupboards out. I had inadvertently left banana skins In a plastic bag and they somehow got pushed into a cupboard. There were these beetles quite different from the cockroaches. After I cleaned the cupboard out and disposed of the rotting skins. I started to see the running round my kitchen.  I had my condo sprayed. This remedy the beetle problem but not the cockroaches. I have subsequently had it resprayed recently. I saved this specimen because it was nothing like anything I had ever seen. BTW I had tried to use natural remedies like borax and baking soda.  I think I see some powder on the beetle., when I magnify it.  I am totally grossed out.  Naomi

This is a nymph of a cockroach; it resembles one of a German cockroach, Blattella germanica (see http://tinyurl.com/hary6ge for an image), but I am not 100 percent certain. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.