{"id":116637,"date":"2020-12-04T05:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cockroaches-are-rapidly-evolving-to-become-almost-impossible-to-kill"},"modified":"2020-12-04T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:23:56","slug":"cockroaches-are-rapidly-evolving-to-become-almost-impossible-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cockroaches-are-rapidly-evolving-to-become-almost-impossible-to-kill","title":{"rendered":"Cockroaches Are Rapidly Evolving To Become \u2018Almost Impossible\u2019 To Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cockroaches-are-rapidly-evolving-to-become-almost-impossible-to-kill.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, they aren\u2019t immune to a good slipper\u2026for now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The rise of the superbug cockroach is upon us. A new study has found that German cockroaches (<em>Blattella germanica<\/em>) are rapidly evolving to become resistant to many widely used bug sprays and insecticides, as well as chemicals they\u2019ve never been directly exposed to, making them near-impossible to eliminate and one step closer to taking over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, the study published in Scientific Reports revealed these scuttling pests could even develop resistance within a single generation. Others also developed cross-resistance, meaning they gained a tolerance to a usually toxic substance just through contact with a similar type of insecticide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t worry, they aren\u2019t immune to a good slipper\u2026for now. The rise of the superbug cockroach is upon us. A new study has found that German cockroaches (Blattella germanica) are rapidly evolving to become resistant to many widely used bug sprays and insecticides, as well as chemicals they\u2019ve never been directly exposed to, making them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}