How Pesticides Pushed Cockroaches Into Rapid Evolution
How Pesticides Pushed Cockroaches Into Rapid Evolution, io9, May 23, 2013.
In the 1980s, manufactures began making cockroach baits that combined sweet glucose with deadly insecticides. By 1993, many cockroach populations somehow developed an aversion to the bait. Now, 20 years later, scientists finally understand how the roaches beat these traps. Coby Schal, entomology, featured.
