Climate change blamed for cockroach migration
Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydney's cockroach population.
Researchers say the most common sub-species in city households was the german cockroach, until it disappeared about seven years ago.
Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum says the Australian house cockroach, methana marginalus, which likes warmer climates, has begun moving in.
"It's most likely to be the...warmer climate," he said.
"They certainly have appeared for many many years just on little spot occurrences
where somebody will find this funny little cockroach that's probably come in on
their suitcase from a trip up to Queensland."Quite likely these ones have also arrived down the same way but they are now breeding."
Brothers Grimm have brought us the global warming industrial complex in the form of cockroaches, rats and other ogreish creatures. It's not a fairey tale for the weak of heart, but for those that are weak of brains.
