The Entomological Society of America updates its database and includes termites in the same category as cockroaches. Termites are now under the order Blattodea. Based on its February 15 update, the ...

The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by ...

Termites live in a complex, marvelously intricate society made up of kings, queens, soldiers, and workers that use an elaborate chemical communication system to keep things running smoothly.

Termites may look like white ants, but new genetic research confirms they are really a social kind of cockroach. Given how relatively solitary regular cockroaches are compared with termites and their ...

Very quietly, and without any formal announcement, the Common Names Committee of the Entomological Society of America has decided to list termites in the same category as cockroaches. It seem weird to ...

Few things freak us out more than cockroaches in our homes. And it turns out that our homes may have more of these bugs than we thought. That's because researchers recently realized that termites are ...

Termites are social cockroaches that split from their sister cockroach group around 150 to 170 million years ago. A popular, yet previously untested, theory suggests that, after this split, they very ...

One of the last things home and business owners want to deal with is a pest infestation — and among pests, cockroaches might be the most ruthless. They have evolved to survive numerous individual and ...

Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life, according to the biggest DNA study yet of the two groups. The idea’s been “simmering,” says Paul Eggleton of the Natural History Museum in ...