Urbanization is a product of human population growth and industrialization. In industrialized
as well as developing countries, urbanization has moved humans away from many …

Cockroaches are ubiquitous in most habitats where insects occur. Although most reports on
cockroaches are physiological in nature, sufficient information is available to indicate that …

During the last few decades, theories of the evolution of eusociality in insects have been
constructed primarily for the Hymenoptera, disregarding the fact that termites share few of …

Juvenile hormone (JH) exerts major pleiotropic effects on cockroach development and
reproduction. The production of JH by the corpora allata (CA) in the adult female German …

Although blattid cockroaches and termites share a common ancestor, their diets are
distinctly different. While termites consume a highly specialized diet of lignocellulose …

The relationships among the three main lineages in the Dictyoptera are uncertain. Here we
suggest that the tempo and mode of their evolution confound efforts to determine the …

Fifth instar nymphs of Oncopeltus fasciatus initiate a moulting cycle when they reach a
critical weight of 27.9±1.1 (±SD) mg for females or 23.7±1.2 mg for males. This critical weight …

Food and water consumption by adult female German cockroaches has been examined in
relation to the reproductive cycle. Daily consumption was recorded for individual insects and …

Foraging cockroaches ingest insecticide baits, translocate them, and can cause mortality in
untreated cockroaches that contact the foragers or ingest their excretions. Translocation of …

A possible adaptive benefit of coprophagy was investigated in nymphs of the German
cockroach Blattella germanica (L.). 2. Newly ecdysed first instars, given no source of food …