#roach science

When people think of cockroaches, some may think of the much-smarter-than-a-bug Gregor Samsa, but it takes a special kind of person—a social biologist, really—to think of them as “gregarious.” Yes, these unloved (by humans), trash-eating creatures have social lives too. A recent review in the journal Insectes Sociaux highlights the social behavior of two so-called gregarious cockroach …