Megaloblatta falls under the kingdom Animalia and phylum Arthropoda. It is further placed under class Insecta and order Blattodea, which encompasses all cockroaches. Within this order, it falls under ...

1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Valie-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran 2 Center for Research and Education of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Kerman ...

In this important study, Li and others identified cell membrane receptors for juvenile hormone (JH), a terpenoid hormone in insects that regulates their development and reproduction. While ...

Until 2008, the spotted Mediterranean cockroach, Ectobius pallidus (Blattellidae), was only known to occur in the United States in Massachusetts and southeast Michigan. Then, it was found in Grand ...

ABSTRACT: In the present investigation, various bioassays were conducted to evaluate the alteration in levels of various enzymes i.e. alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, glutamate oxaloacetate ...

Insect metamorphosis is generally classified into two main types—hemimetaboly and holometaboly—while ametaboly refers to nonmetamorphosing species. Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) and Zygentoma ...

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The use of chemical insecticides is the main control method for Blattella germanica worldwide. The prolonged and frequent use of insecticides produced the selection of insecticide-resistant ...

Few creatures are as unpopular with people as cockroaches. We not only recoil at the sight of them, but often go out of our way to eradicate them, or at least reflexively kill any we see. But most of ...

Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China As sessile organisms, plants face ...