A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia’s Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student. “For the ...

The wingless wood-eating cockroach specimen was found on Lord Howe Island in Australia, last having been seen more than 80 years ago. They were thought to have become extinct due to the ...

Brandon Green via Unsplash University of Sydney student Maxim Adams was scouring the leafy floor of Australia’s Lord ... to safety was a wingless wood-eating cockroach — an animal that hasn ...

Nathan Lo receives funding from The Australia and Pacific Science Foundation. This was later described as Panesthia lata, the Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach. P. lata was noted as being ...

Some cockroach species prefer indoor spaces during spring and summer, but others, like American and Australian roaches, can invade your home at any time of the year, Kristin Dodd, the manager of ...

A cockroach thought to have been extinct for more than 80 years has been rediscovered by a student in Australia. A large, wingless and wood-feeding cockroach native to Lord Howe Island ...