Habit of cockroach

Cockroach prefers to live in damp but warm places and generally found in kitchens, hotels, bakeries, restaurants, warehouses, sewage, ships, and public latrines, etc., where plenty of food is available. It is nocturnal animal hiding in holes and crevices during the day and coming out at night when it tastes diverse objects like clothes, shoes, books and human food to feed upon. Thus, it is omnivorous in diet. It is fast runner, i.e., cursorial in habit. It can also fly but it flies very rarely. It is dioecious and oviparous and exhibits parental care.