A new study uses genetics to chart cockroaches' spread across the globe, from humble beginnings ... likely evolving from the Asian cockroach around 2,100 years ago. Scientists have long suspected ...

Oriental cockroaches and American cockroaches are both widely known as household pests around the world. They have a similar ...

The widespread species is the world’s most prevalent cockroach ... bugs to expand their territory. Later, around 390 years ago, the cockroaches spread east, likely due to European colonial ...

But despite its name, the cockroach was a newcomer to Germany ... the origins of the common pest species as well as its spread around the globe. Its geographical ascendancy seems to boil down ...

The world’s most widespread type of cockroach — a tiny ... which probably allowed the insect to spread around the continent by hitchhiking with soldiers. Europeans named the new bug after ...

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