However, it was not known how the food consumed by the eternal pests in life shaped these decisions. To find out, Moore’s team picked young female cockroach nymphs, and divided them into two dietary groups

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Cockroaches, too, get fat eating unhealthy diet

Although I didn’t have any cockroaches in my apartment (except for one sole cockroach who met a swift demise at the end of a can of insect spray), I did get an infestation of maggots after I discovered that the person who’d lived there before me had … All my food got kept in sealed Tupperware containers and I had pest control in every week to spray the place. Seriously disgusting and not recommended.

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sarah_prineas: Little Creatures