How long is an American cockroach?
An American cockroach is about 4 cm (1.57 in) long.
Size source: edis.ifas.ufl.edu
Compared with things you know
- About 1.6 times the width of a US quarter coin (2.43 cm)
- About 47% of the width of a credit card (8.56 cm)
- About 17% of the width of a basketball (24 cm)
Did you know?
In one experiment an American cockroach ran at 5.4 km/h (3.4 mph), about 50 of its own body lengths per second.
