Are Madagascar hissing cockroaches social or solitary? When scientists Zuzana Varadinova, Daniel Frynta and Vaclav Stejskal undertook research focused on cockroaches, they proclaimed Blattaria to be universally gregarious insects, and some species are notably sociable critters. Not so Madagascar hissing cockroaches, despite the fact that they live in large colonies. Madagascar hissing cockroaches belonging to […]

Since hissing cockroaches are insects, they’re by definition invertebrates. It’s a little confusing considering that the word vertebrate would suggest that they have a strong back and it’s obvious that roaches have a pretty tough shell on the outside of their bodies, but vertebrates have an actual spine according to scientists. Most of the biologists

Hissing cockroaches are insects, so they’re not mammals. While they don’t have wings and might not look like other roaches, they’re still part of the same family that all cockroaches belong to. I didn’t remember everything from high school biology class, so I went to check up on a hard definition of the difference between