A North Carolina pest control company is offering homeowners $2,000 for it to release about 100 cockroaches in their homes in an effort to study a treatment method. "As technology advances, we’re ...

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, ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - University of Kentucky researchers have received nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a more effective and longer-lasting ...

The German cockroach evolved to live only in human environments. This means it's very good at adapting to pest control methods — even if it means changing its mating rituals. And now we turn to ...

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People buying insecticide sprays to battle cockroaches are wasting their money as the insects have grown resistant to a key ingredient, sparking a call for US regulators to toughen up product testing ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Cockroaches top the list of creepy-crawly things no one wants in their home. After all, they’re big, ...

Texas exterminators say they’ve received a lot of roach calls in the last couple of months, as spring and early summer are when the pests are generally the most active. “In other states that have a ...