Megaloblatta is a giant cockroach genus found in South and Central America. Scientists have been fascinated by these insects for than a century because of their incredible size, broad wings, and ...

Scientists from the Southwest University, Chongqing, China have found a new species and a new subspecies of cockroach. What makes these creepy crawlies distinctive from the cockroaches most of us know ...

The Turkestan cockroach (commonly known as the red runner roach or rusty red roach), which is popular as food for pet reptiles, has an interneuron extremely sensitive to sex pheromones emitted by ...

Cockroaches have been crawling on the planet since before the time of the dinosaurs, and today there are more than 4,500 species known to science. Researchers are adding three more to that list.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A team of researchers at Michigan State University have discovered a new species of cockroach. This is the first time a species from this family has been found in the western ...

A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the underbrush before gently scooping up a cockroach with his bare hands.

Darth Vader is the crustacean they were looking for. Scientists from Singapore and Indonesia confirmed a species they found in Indonesian waters off the coast of western Java in 2018 had never ...

Many nocturnal animals including insects use a species-specific smell, that is sex a pheromone, to locate and attract potential mates. For example, female American cockroaches emit sex pheromones ...