Scientists at UC Riverside have found a clever new way to outsmart termites—by turning their own instincts against them.

We compared the termite assemblages of different ecosystems in a humidity gradient. Three areas were sampled: (i) a humid montane forest; (ii) a hillside forest where shaded coffee (Coffea arabica ...

Megaloblatta falls under the kingdom Animalia and phylum Arthropoda. It is further placed under class Insecta and order Blattodea, which encompasses all cockroaches. Within this order, it falls under ...

Megaloblatta longipennis is the rainforest giant cockroach that amazes scientists with its size, wingspan and survival skills. Follow Us Trending Photos World’s Largest Cockroach: Megaloblatta ...

The scientific name of the largest cockroach in the world: Cockroaches are perhaps the most universally disliked insects, but beyond the common pests in our homes, the world of the Blattodea order ...

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As kids growing up in Houston, my neighborhood friends and I all had cockroach horror stories. Maybe one crawled across someone’s face at night or scuttled over their bare foot in the kitchen. I ...

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Coelacanth, a sea fish, has been considered to be extinct till it was seen again in 1938. It is a 400 million-year-old creature that lives up to 100 years. Horseshoe crabs, some 300 million years old, ...

A pair of paleontologists at The Open University, working with a colleague from the National Museum of Scotland, have identified a new species of ancient cockroach excavated from a site in ...

If you’ve seen a medium-sized insect scurrying about in your home, you may be wondering whether it’s a cockroach or a beetle. Though they’re both insects with similar appearances, beetles and ...