There are many examples of restaurants or bar owners finding American cockroaches in partially empty beer bottles. Bread soaked with beer can be used to attract them. Ongoing inspections, including trapping are very important because of the long life span of this cockroach. Behavior and Harborage. Wood cockroaches live in rotted logs, tree stumps, hollow trees, stopped-up rain gutters, and in piles of fire wood.
Males take flight during late spring in search of females.
Males are attracted to light and sometimes accidentally invade homes, where they soon die. The best control method is exclusion, by tightening around screens, doors and windows. No chemical control is necessary.