Australia’s native cockroaches are a diverse group of animals.We have the vibrantly coloured Mardi Gras cockroach (Polyzosteria mitchelli), the finely patterned pretty balta (Balta verticalis) and the ...

Australia’s cockroach man. David Rentz, author of the Guide to Australian Cockroaches and former director for 25 years of the National Insect Collection at CSIRO, sees beauty in most, if not all, of ...

Australia's cockroach population is set to explode this summer, warns professional exterminator Luke Taylor. Picture: 7 News Unusual weather patterns have spawned a plague of cockroaches and ...

Oriental cockroaches and American cockroaches are both widely known as household pests around the world. They have a similar ...

Sydney has been given the unfortunate title of 'cockroach capital of Australia' while Perth is plagued with ants, new research has revealed.. Seventy per cent of Aussie homes have been bugged by ...

Tuck your pants into your shoes, because this is a race with one of Australia's most terrifying creepy crawlies. The Story Bridge Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland hosted their 35th annual "Cockroach ...

Art by Pahko Moreno. He was finally in so much pain that he went to the hospital, where doctors poured oil on the insect, a nearly inch-long cockroach, which pushed itself even deeper into Helmer ...

A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia's Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student.

An Australian man who went to the doctors ended up having a large cockroach removed from his ear. Before seeking the advice of medics, Hendrik Helmer had tried to remove the nearly inch-long pest ...

Doctors had to surgically remove a 0.8 inch cockroach from a man's ear after it crawled inside while he was asleep, according to Australian media reports Friday. Hendrik Helmer told the state ...

The Australian giant burrowing cockroach is the world’s heaviest, nearly the size of a cell phone and heavier than a silver dollar. Other, less terrifying species have their fans.