A new study confirms what bug haters and the Orkin man have always suspected: cockroaches and termites belong together. As Susan Milius at Science News reports, the Entomological Society of America ...

Why Are They Called Cockroaches? The name cockroach comes from the Spanish term cucaracha, which derives from the Latin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A headless cockroach isn’t fictional biology. Here’s how ...

Also identified as the water bug, the American cockroach is one of the most common pests infesting homes in the United States ...