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Giant, winged and unbelievable: Meet the world’s largest cockroach and where it is found

World’s Largest Cockroach: Megaloblatta longipennis, a true marvel of the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, holds the record as the world’s largest winged cockroach. Scientists have ...

Both drought and rain draw cockroaches indoors in NC. How to keep them out

Smokybrown cockroaches are often also called palmetto bugs and water bugs.
The Conversation

A large cockroach thought extinct since the 1930s was just rediscovered on a small island in Australia

In 1887, Australian Museum scientists undertook a pioneering expedition to Lord Howe Island, a tiny patch of land off the east coast of Australia. Among their many discoveries, they recorded “a large ...
Business Insider

A cockroach on a plane is going viral for appearing to stay alive and twitching while lodged in a plane window next to one fascinated passenger

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A cockroach stowing away on a plane has gone viral after a passenger filmed it crawling inside a ...
New York Post

‘Big’ cockroach crashes State Department press briefing, alarms spokesman in awkward scene

He didn’t mean to bug. An unwanted cockroach encroached upon State Department spokesman Mathew Miller’s press briefing Thursday, prompting him to interrupt his remarks and plot a way to terminate the ...
Gizmodo

Large cockroach burrows into man’s ear — in Australia, of course

Hendrik Helmer awoke a few nights ago to find that his ear canal had been invaded by a rather large insect. The Australian man first tried to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner, then to flush it out ...
The Hill

Cockroach interrupts State Dept briefing: ‘It’s a rather large one’

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller momentarily interrupted a press briefing Thursday afternoon when he noticed a cockroach crawling on the wall near a reporter’s head. “I hate to interrupt, ...
AZFamily

School’s eclectic assortment of class pets, including a large cockroach

INDIANA (3TV/CBS 5) — Plenty of research shows that therapy dogs provide comfort and reduce stress. A classroom in Indiana just got a new four-legged friend to help students, but you might be ...