The Firebrat is 9-13mm long; which is about 1/2 and inch. It has 3 tail filaments and it has 6 segments. It lives in houses in furnaces and by ovens , heating pipes. It also lives about 3 years long and lays 50 eggs or more.  The eggs have a soft shell around it.   The nymphs take up to 2yrs and 40 molts just to get to full size.

It likes to eat dry crumbs and scraps that drop when you are cooking.  It is gold with black stripes.