# (Please) Identify this insect **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 12, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224 "2018-09-12T15:23:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/1 "2018-09-12T15:23:06Z")
Found in a dorm in Maine on the coast in the fall by my daughter. First picture is the bug. Sorry it’s blurry. Second is just for scale. The bug is the dot in the bag near the penny. [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180912/8727c68923b307459b0b827756af9090.jpeg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180912/8727c68923b307459b0b827756af9090.jpeg) [https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180912/7cad2bb6da781053f4bcd7b78b94593c.jpeg](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180912/7cad2bb6da781053f4bcd7b78b94593c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/2 "2018-09-12T15:28:41Z")
Looks like a cockroach nymph, but very hard to tell for sure. ETA: compare to: [Immature Cockroach - What's That Bug?](https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2016/12/28/immature-cockroach-6/) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/3 "2018-09-12T15:39:07Z")
Maby a baby aphid? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/4 "2018-09-12T15:44:39Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Looks like a cockroach nymph, but very hard to tell for sure. > > ETA: compare to: [https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2016/12/28/immature-cockroach-6/](https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2016/12/28/immature-cockroach-6/) Thanks, I’ll send that link to my daughter. I’ll bet Building Management will want to get right on it. (Or maybe not, I’ll bet it’s an endemic problem in dorms.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/5 "2018-09-12T16:49:20Z")
Yep. What ya got there is a cucaracha. They pack a very poisonous sting, actually. Handle with extreme caution. ---
**Author:** ![half-elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@half-elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/half-elf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/6 "2018-09-12T17:07:35Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Yep. What ya got there is a cucaracha. They pack a very poisonous sting, actually. Handle with extreme caution. I thought cucaracha was Mexican for cockroach in general. Are you saying it is actually one specific kind of poisonous cockroach? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/7 "2018-09-12T17:37:31Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Yep. What ya got there is a cucaracha. They pack a very poisonous sting, actually. Handle with extreme caution. This is false. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/8 "2018-09-12T17:38:44Z")
^ Yeah, there are no poisonous cockroaches and none of them sting. They can bite, but it’s not that common. Yes, you probably have one species of cockroach there. Possibly a cockroach nymph as beowulff suggested, a German cockroach or some other similar species. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-insect/821224/9 "2018-09-12T17:39:17Z")
Aw c’mon, I was ready to spin a really good yarn to back this up. You’re no fun. But it is too a cockroach baby.