Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...
Salganea taiwanensis, a kind of wood-feeding cockroach, may engage in what's known as pair bonding, a new study finds. These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating each other's ...
Pair bonding — two animals forming an exclusive, long-term partnership — is almost unheard of in insects. Now scientists say they may have found it in a cockroach, and the way these roaches seal the ...
Humans might show commitment with a ring, penguins offer prospective mates rocks and some beetles gift a ball of dung. Wood-feeding cockroaches show commitment with a nibble of cannibalism — and then ...