Wood roaches are cockroaches that are like termites. They're also called brown-hooded cockroaches. Wood roaches closely resemble other cockroaches, like American cockroaches, which can make them ...

The name ‘woods cockroach’ is used to refer to a couple of roach species found outdoors. They eat rotting wood. This doesn’t mean that they won’t enter your house when they get the chance.

A Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach chills out on a human hand. Justin Gilligan/NSW DPE Here's a reason to be happy about cockroaches, even if you're not a fan of the insects.

A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia's Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student.