What if the creepiest critter in your house could teach your kids a lesson about love, loyalty and the scientific method? A new study reveals that a species of wood-eating cockroach may form lifelong ...

Most love stories don’t start with mutual wing consumption. But for one species of wood-eating cockroach found in Asia, devouring your partner’s wings is apparently the ultimate commitment ceremony - ...

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Pair bonding — two animals forming an exclusive, long-term partnership — is almost unheard of in insects. Now scientists say they may have found it in a cockroach, and the way these roaches seal the ...

The Madagascar hissing cockroach is all hiss and no sting. Its alarm hiss, which sounds like a loud snake hiss, is the cockroach's attempt to scare off intruders. The male cockroach also uses distinct ...