{"id":54892,"date":"2024-05-20T20:43:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/how-the-cockroach-took-over-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:43:11","slug":"how-the-cockroach-took-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/how-the-cockroach-took-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Cockroach Took Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They come out of hiding at night and scuttle across the house in search of starchy crumbs on the floor, a sticky sugary stain on the counter and sometimes even a nibble of toothpaste or soap.<\/p>\n

Cockroaches.<\/p>\n

Yet out of the 4,500 species of cockroaches, the German cockroach is probably the primary source of your frustration. It has overpowered other cockroach species and is considered the world\u2019s most prevalent indoor pest. How exactly this wild insect became our personal problem \u2014 so well-adapted to living in places with humans it\u2019s barely found in nature \u2014 has eluded scientists for some time.<\/p>\n

A new study<\/a> describes the scavenger\u2019s origin story, and reveals the genetic variations that make the insect \u201cdifferent from other cockroaches,\u201d said Qian Tang<\/a>, an evolutionary biologist now at Harvard University and an author of the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. \u201cAnd then that helps us find a solution to control them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The German cockroach was given its name in the late 1700s in Central Europe. Scientists later concluded that the species, Blattella germanica, originated in northeastern Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n