N.C. State Research: Sugar Aversion Hampers Cockroach Coupling
Pest Control Technology,
Female cockroaches snack on a roach version of chocolate in a pre-mating ritual.
Female cockroaches snack on a roach version of chocolate in a pre-mating ritual.
For decades, humans have set traps for cockroaches and laced them with sugar to attract the insects to their doom.
The insects’ sweet tooth should have made them easy to kill. But they outsmarted us with warp-speed evolution.
NEW YORK: Cockroaches are changing up their sex lives, and it is all our fault.