Cockroaches outsmarting sugar traps

Cockroaches outsmarting sugar traps, BBC News, May 23, 2013.
A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to eradicate them. US scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a “reorganised” sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as bitter. Coby Schal, entomology, featured.