Researchers who synthesized an artificial sex pheromone have just discovered that it’s most useful application so far is . . . killing cockroaches? Female cockroaches, specifically the wood cockroach ...

A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia’s Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student. “For the first 10 ...

Roaches are more diverse, more complex, and less pestilent than we tend to think. The American cockroach is peridomestic, meaning it lives near people both indoors and out. Popular habitats include ...

Dear Heloise: Like a number of my friends who are large-breasted, we have a daily problem year-round of sweating onto the band of our bras. About a year ago, I used one of my 12-by-8-inch disposable ...

Floridians have a weird habit of renaming their bugs to something more pleasant. We call one of our most commonly found species of march flies love bugs or honeymoon flies. Cockroaches? Those are ...