in denmark we now have so many so they warn people about not opening a packet in the home. 25% of all packets from a danish internetshop have eggs from this bastards or this bastards in them. I have read they can live 9 months without eating and they can live for 8 years and lay 200 eggs so one can be to 200 if you do not kill it and 200 can be to 200 x 200. So far I have only seen 12 this year, I spray poison now every 5 week in all rooms, I guess I have to do that up to maybe 1 year after I have seen that last one just to be sure. I think they are in all of europe or maybe in every country all over the world. I have not been opening a packet in my home since last year.