Humans might show commitment with a ring, penguins offer prospective mates rocks and some beetles gift a ball of dung. Wood-feeding cockroaches show commitment with a nibble of cannibalism — and then ...

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...

Most love stories don’t start with mutual wing consumption. But for one species of wood-eating cockroach found in Asia, devouring your partner’s wings is apparently the ultimate commitment ceremony — ...

When you think of two individuals coupling up to raise and protect a family together, you might think of people or birds. But probably not cockroaches. And yet, in a paper published in Royal Society ...

Pair bonding — two animals forming an exclusive, long-term partnership — is almost unheard of in insects. Now scientists say they may have found it in a cockroach, and the way these roaches seal the ...