Roaches that have been hard to trap may be a variety that find sugar doesn't taste quite so sweet as bait anymore, a study suggests. Most cockroach baits cover poison in a layer of glucose, a sugar.

Suburbanites may be blissfully unaware, but for city dwellers it’s one of nature’s ultimate truths: cockroaches love sweets. Sure, the repulsive, disease-carrying insects eat anything at all, from ...

NEW YORK - For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A ...

They’re not looking for sugar daddies! German cockroaches are evolving to dislike sugar and female cockroaches are avoiding mating with their sugar-loving male peers, according to a study from North ...

A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to eradicate them. American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a "reorganised" sense of taste, making them ...

A Japanese company called Earth Chemical has developed a cockroach trap that will work against a mega-sized mutant cockroach the size of a sumo wrestler. They know this because they got a sumo ...

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 ...

In Other News: Mutant cockroaches; how long it takes to choose what to watch; & calling all cookie masters Here's something to make your skin crawl this morning: cockroaches are evolving to become ...