A female cockroach “Piniblattella yixianesis” center, with a long ootheca at the end of her abdomen, pauses on a tree trunk in an early Cretaceous forest. (Artwork by Dr Chen Wang) Very early on, ...

Spotting a cockroach scuttling across your kitchen floor is pretty disgusting, and most of us would instinctively try to stamp on it before it hides somewhere we cannot reach it. It is even more ...

Cockroaches are a very ancient group of insects. They have been around virtually unchanged in general appearance since the Carboniferous period, more than 300 million years ago. Technically speaking ...

ABC Home & Commercial Services has released a new identification guide helping Houston homeowners recognize roach eggs and ...

An incredible new video captures the skin-crawling moment dozens of translucent cockroach larvae burst from their leathery egg case. The footage shows a protective egg capsule called an ootheca ...

Tsukuba, Japan - Often associated with dirty living conditions and the spread of disease, cockroaches understandably have a bad reputation. But of the 4,600 cockroach species alive today, only a few ...

Terrance Zdunich’s portrait of a dysfunctional American family in the 90’s, The Molting, has just dropped Chapter 3 on an unassuming public. It’s called “Ootheca” after the hardened case in which ...

Researchers find that a 'lost' family of cockroaches may be the missing link in the evolution of insects from prehistoric times to the present day. Often associated with dirty living conditions and ...