The Mississippi Gulf Coast is about to have a new claim to fame. A giant cockroach fishing reef. We’re talking a world record-sized cockroach. Go ahead and laugh. Everybody else did when Greg Cenac ...

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.

This squat concrete building was once a chicken coop, but now it's part of a farm with an entirely different kind of livestock — millions of cockroaches. Inside, squirming masses of the reddish-brown ...