Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...

UC Davis' Bohart Museum of Entomology has television's "Fear Factor" to thank. Some 30-40 Madagascar hissing cockroaches, left over from one of the show's outrageous stunts, were passed on last year ...

The German cockroach is an indoor pest that is found across the world. Science has finally solved the mystery of its origin. The cockroach, contrary to popular belief, isn’t one species. There are ...

Pest Gnome mined data from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as climate info, to come up with the 25 US cities most prone to cockroaches. Cockroaches tend to scatter when ...

Using genetics to identify the origin and the global path of the ubiquitous insect pest, the German cockroach, back to its wild origin could help us develop more effective pesticides to control them.