Cockroaches around spilled crumbs near kitchen refrigerator - Rhj/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Freezing temperatures could mean you see fewer pests around ...

Animals aren’t the only organisms with complex microbiomes. Like humans, insects house a variety of bacteria in their guts. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in the guts of termites, honey bees carry ...

Tiny mites living on the surface of Madagascar hissing cockroaches help decrease the presence of a variety of molds on the cockroaches’ bodies, potentially reducing allergic responses among humans who ...

Three cockroaches squeeze though a 3 mm crevice under a room door at different stages of traversal. (Photo courtesy Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings/ UC Berkeley) A recent study on how ...

Robert Full doesn’t like cockroaches. Probably for the same reasons as the rest of us: They’re slick and they skitter, they have those shiny exoskeletons, they’re practically impossible to kill.