Of all the creatures that have ever sent a person screaming out of a kitchen, the cockroach has probably earned the most ...

Video: Watch a jewel wasp sting a cockroach, turning it into a “zombie” There is a cure for zombies after all – if you are a cockroach. A new study has shown that cockroaches that turned into “zombies ...

Using genetics to identify the origin and the global path of the ubiquitous insect pest, the German cockroach, back to its wild origin could help us develop more effective pesticides to control them.

Earth boasts some 4,600 species of cockroach, but perhaps none is as widespread as the German cockroach (Blattella germanica), which is today found anywhere humans permanently inhabit. But despite its ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 1, 2022) A new evolutionary strategy spreading among German cockroaches is making them more difficult to kill than ever before. In a recent publication in Nature ...