When a male cockroach wants to mate with a female cockroach very much, he will scoot his butt toward her, open his wings and offer her a homemade meal — sugars and fats squished out of his tergal ...

To speed up reproduction, there’s no substitute for the tender touch of a live roach. That’s the takeaway from a study examining whether artificial antennae can mimic a cockroach antenna’s capacity to ...

SAPPORO -- The ability of female American cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) to reproduce without males is boosted in groups of three or more females, experiments conducted by a team at Hokkaido ...

Reproduction is of great importance for the continuation of the species. In insects, the fat body is the major tissue for nutrient storage and involved in vitellogenesis, which is essential for female ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A male cockroach (right) secretes a solution to attract a female (left), who then climbs onto the male's back to drink the ...

Abstract: We report the faithful reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of the ...