Cardboard has small pockets of air, and these little spaces create the perfect place for German roaches to nest. "They love tight, dark spaces, and cardboard provides exactly that—like a perfect ...

These crawling (and sometimes flying) critters can quickly go from an occasional nuisance to a full-blown infestation in ...

Lured in by the food, the roaches ate the heady mix, then returned to their nests, only to die several hours later and spread the poison when their nest-mates devoured their faeces and bodies.

The ancestors of German cockroaches pestered people about 2,000 years ago far from Germany, a study found. Here’s how the critters achieved global domination.