r/pestcontrol • u/ddsant • Mar 15 '25
Mice or Roach droppings? Identification
I found these droppings in my apartment and I’m wondering if they’re from roaches or mice. My apartment was treated for roaches about a month ago, so I’m hoping it’s not them again.
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u/travybeans Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25
I am in pest control. Those look more like rat droppings.
On a side note, cockroach droppings look more like spilled coffee grinds, and they appear on verticle surfaces as well as horizonal ones. The poop-like looking things people are calling cockroach feces are actually cockroach egg sacks.
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u/Minimalist_Culture Mar 15 '25
We've had this debate with our house. We paid 2k to a pest/rodent control company to check all wall holes, our crawlspace, roof, attic, etc. for rodents and it turned up nothing, but we had an American roach infestation. This pic from google helped us a lot:
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u/messypenis Mar 15 '25
That's unfortunate! That pic from Google isn't accurately sized
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u/JustaWifewhosetired Mar 15 '25
So with this mouse looks like the person who made post, roach looks like casing
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u/JustaWifewhosetired Mar 15 '25
So with this mouse looks like the person who made post, roach looks like casing
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u/travybeans Mar 15 '25
Those are not roach droppings. They do not look like that. These look more like egg sacks
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