German cockroach gaining rapid resistance to insecticides
By DW
07 July 2019 |
9:17 am
Researchers say the findings mean it will become impossible to exterminate the common cockroach with chemicals alone. Female cockroaches have dozens of offspring in a three-month reproductive cycle.
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