Sex pheromones are vital in facilitating the chemical communication that underpins insect courtship and mating behavior. Among female American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana), two key volatile sex ...

Cockroaches have a reputation problem. Most people picture them scurrying across a kitchen floor, but that image only applies to a tiny fraction of the group. Earth is home to thousands of cockroach ...

There are very few creatures on Earth that human beings have agreed, almost universally, to despise. The cockroach is one of them. And yet for a creature so casually disliked, it has done ...