The German cockroach is the UK’s most common type of cockroach – it will eat almost anything, including leather, books, packaging and plastic. A pair of German cockroaches can produce 10,000 offspring in a year and infestations are often...
Food is so easily available in our developed, world that we take it for granted. We just expect that the food we buy in supermarkets and corner shops is safe to eat (even if it’s not always the healthiest...
Anyone associated with food will know, safety is vitally important when operating within the food industry, especially for food processing businesses. Adhering to the necessary food safety standards and regulations can help prevent outbreaks of food-borne illnesses such as...
One of the last things a hotel or restaurant needs is negative publicity in the media. Stories can appear in the local news because food hygiene inspectors found signs of mice or cockroaches in the kitchen, or disgruntled guests...
It seems cockroaches are quite adaptable creatures when it comes to climate change according to recent research. The widely loathed insects can hold their breath to save water, a new study has found – a trick that could help...
Cockroaches that we recognise today date back to the early Cretaceous Era, about 150 million years ago. There are about 3,000 known species of cockroach inhabiting the world, yet according to the World Health Organisation there are only 10...