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What do wood roaches and woodpeckers have in common?

Research team identifies cockroach pheromone

12/19/2011

A joint project between Coby Schal's lab and colleagues at SUNY-Syracuse and UC-Davis identified the pheromone of the wood cockroach, Parcoblatta lata. This discovery has implications for both control of this sometimes urban pest as well as ecologically benefitting endangered woodpeckers.

Click HERE for the NCSU press release.

Click HERE to read the paper.