Pest cockroach species have fully earned their reputation as unkillable insect juggernauts. But this scary surface masks a diverse world of much more delicate insects that play vital roles in our ...

The world’s most widespread type of cockroach — a tiny, tan pest called the German cockroach — is at this moment crawling through countless buildings, hiding in the dark nooks of hotel rooms ...

Evolution has saved roach reproduction from an earlier mutation that interfered with how males court females. By Bethany Brookshire Cockroaches are changing up their sex lives, and it’s all our ...

Human attempts to kill cockroaches with sugary poison have had an unintended consequence: It has cramped the bugs' sex lives. But now, some roaches appear to have tweaked the recipe for the sweet ...

The pair had produced a substance, periplanone-B, that sends the male American cockroach into a thrashing, sexual frenzy. What if this were used to build a better trap—a cockroach honeypot that ...

Cockroaches are common sights to see in the Louisiana heat, and with a scorching summer ahead, these creepy crawlers are coming out to play. While roaches are a prevalent pest across the state ...