It's always unsettling when you spot a cockroach (or more) near your drain areas, and you’ll need to know how to get rid of roaches quickly and safely. Cockroaches are pests drawn to warm and humid ...

Cockroaches don't usually bite humans, but they can cause allergy symptoms and spread foodborne illnesses that can make you ...

German cockroaches are developing cross-resistance to insecticides. A common cockroach species is becoming essentially immune to pesticides, researchers said. A new study by researchers at Purdue ...

Why do cockroaches go inside homes? There is a common misconception that cockroaches usually go into homes that are dirty, but that isn’t always the case.

As if cockroaches weren't already hard enough to get rid of, a new study from Purdue University suggests the German cockroach – the most common in the world – is quickly evolving to resist ...

Doom May Be Approaching for the Common Cockroach This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such ...

The world's most common cockroach, Blattella germanica, has no wild populations, and a new study suggests it diverged from its closest living relative in southeast Asia more than 2,000 years ago.

Spotting roaches in of your home is less than desirable. Thankfully, pest experts say there are ways to prevent the bugs from making their way inside. What kinds of cockroaches are common in the US?

Large roach (around 10 inches, or 25 centimeters, in length or more) showed the same trend, but overall were more likely to get eaten than small fish -- they had a 40 percent chance of being ...

There's a good reason a cockroach elicits a feeling of disgust when we see one scuttle past. Cockroaches carry a wide range of diseases and pathogens including bubonic plague, dysentery, hepatitis ...