Cockroaches or food critics?
Posted on June 10, 2010 with 1 Comment
AOL.com published an article that describes an England scientist who likes to experiment with cockroaches to examine their behavior. The scientist recently conducted an experiment where he wanted to see if cockroaches’ behavior is social or independent. He wanted to see if cockroaches ate by themselves or in groups. 
To conduct this experiment he put two slices of food on opposite sides of a 1 x 1 meter box and observed which piece the cockroaches went to. He then formed groups of 50 to 200 cockroaches. In the small groups, there seem to be no preference to which piece they ate but in the larger group, the number was not evenly distributed. In some cases 65% of the roaches would gather around one piece. These results show that somehow the cockroaches communicate between one another and signal to each other that the food is good and everyone should get fed. In his next experiment, he wants to conduct the same experiment but one of the pieces of food will have poison on it to see if the cockroaches would be able to communicate to each other that the food was bad and they should not eat it. Cockroaches travel in groups so if you see one cockroach, there are most likely others. If you have a cockroach problem, contact us by phone 800-479-8422, email, live chat, facebook, or twitter. JPMcHale is one of the leading pest control companies in Westchester, New York.
Tags: cockroach, Cockroaches
Category: Cockroaches, Kitchens
