The wood-feeding cockroach may be the only known example of a species that practices mutual sexual cannibalism – both male and female nibble each other’s wings after mating Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267476-cannibal-cockroaches-nibble-each-others-wings-after-they-have-mated/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Cockroach species found to live like ants with workers and a queen
Cockroaches were thought to be solitary insects, but a South American species bucks the trend – it lives in large groups and seems to have sterile workers led by a queen Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256067-cockroach-species-found-to-live-like-ants-with-workers-and-a-queen/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Scythelike jaws of Cretaceous ‘hell ant’ clutch a baby cockroach in an amber tomb
The death strike of a Cretaceous “hell ant” from 99 million years ago is preserved in amber, revealing how these demonic-looking ants hunted. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hell-ant-in-amber.html
Earliest known cave-dwelling animal is a 99-million-year-old cockroach
The earliest cave-dwelling animal identified from the dinosaur era is a ghostly white cockroach with tiny eyes and wings that was preserved in amber Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2234805-earliest-known-cave-dwelling-animal-is-a-99-million-year-old-cockroach/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…