“A cockroach, no matter how big it may be, does not make the cut,” an official said. (Representational Photo)“A cockroach, no matter how big it may be, does not make the cut,” an official said. (Representational Photo)
Cockroaches are one of human’s enemies and no one wants them to be crawling in their house. One of their species “German Cockroach” is seen all over the world.
The study says that the German Cockroach evolved from the Asian Cockroach, which is most likely from India and Myanmar. For more than 250 years scientists were not able to solve the mystery of how the German cockroach spread throughout the world.
If a cockroach is crawling in your kitchen or on the floor, you might have seen the German Cockroach.
Roaches are present in all the continents except Antarctica. Cockroaches do not prefer cold temperatures but they like to be in warm and moist conditions. They feed on human or animal foods.
German Cockroaches’ ability to resist insecticides and also their ability to rapidly breed make them easily spread.
The scientists believe that cockroaches might have spread through two routes. one older, westward route to the Middle East coinciding with various Islamic dynasties, and another younger eastward route coinciding with the European colonial period.
