An association of food sources with odors prominently guides foraging behavior in animals. To understand the interaction olfactory memory and preferences, we used glucose-averse (GA) German cockroaches. Multiple populations cockroaches evolved a gustatory polymorphism where glucose is perceived as deterrent enables GA to avoid eating glucose-containing toxic baits. Comparative behavioral analys...

background: considering to the high distribution of cockroaches as urban pests, the efficacy of different formula­tions of metarhizium anisopliae strain iran 437c were assessed against the brown-banded cockroach, supella longi­palpa f. under laboratory and field conditions. methods: metarhizium anisopliae isolates were screened with immersing adults of the brown-banded cockroachs in aqueous sus...