Introducing the good food guide for cockroaches
Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 10:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It is often striking how little we know about our closest neighbour. Until now, it was assumed that cockroaches forage on their own to find food and water. However, this work shows how groups of the insects seem to make a collective choice about the best food source, explaining why we so commonly find them feeding en masse in the kitchen late at night...