Meet the lodgers

• Autores: Rob Dunn
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2983, 2014, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The German cockroach lives in buildings, nowhere else; outdoors it dies. Exactly when Blatella germanica threw in its lot with humans is unknown, though it is generally thought to be African in origin and may initially have inhabited caves, as many modern roach species do. Wherever it arose, it spread around the world, following ancestors everywhere they went, being a pest, causing a nuisance. Then, in the early 1990s, it came to the attention of Jules Silverman, an entomologist by training whose job was to develop chemicals to kill German roaches, in the city of Raleigh NC. Here, Dunn examines how cockroach has evolved with humans for millennia, and now its fate is in their hands.