Cockroaches are developing a resistance to insecticides used in exterminators' bug spray and may soon be "almost impossible" to control with chemicals alone, scientists warn. New research recently ...

Cockroaches have apparently begun to develop a cross-resistance to powerful insecticides.Scientists from Purdue exposed German cockroaches to different insecticides, and found that the cockroach ...

Annapolis, MD; August 14, 2024—A common variety of consumer insecticide sprays is mostly ineffective and of "little to no value" in eliminating cockroach infestations, a new study shows. Residual ...

One dose of an insecticide can kill three generations of cockroaches as they feed off of each other and transfer the poison, according to entomologists who tested the effectiveness of a specific gel ...

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