SciShow: Female Cockroaches Hate Romance (And It’s Our Fault)

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com. Most people don't love cockroaches. And thanks to that lack of love, the females of one species of cockroach might not love their males looking for love. But lucky for both of them, evolution might be finding a way around it. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022191093900029 http://www.insecteco.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wadakatsumata2013.pdf https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2018.00281/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5390319/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ps.4295 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03415-8 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8003998/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2337 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cockroach-sex-is-evolving-in-response-to-pesticides-180981945/ Images: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/%D1%81olony-of-madagascan-cockroaches-pottering-about-in-a-stock-footage/501206421 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/cockroach-bait-royalty-free-image/1483987471?phrase=roach+trap&adppopup=true https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62518807 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179577677 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-german-cockroach-royalty-free-image/476825324?phrase=german+cockroach&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-german-cockroach-royalty-free-image/483579388?phrase=german+cockroach&adppopup=true https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71786267 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/group-of-german-cockroaches-of-different-ages-royalty-free-image/540380642?phrase=german+cockroach&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-little-cockroach-eating-small-piece-of-food-stock-footage/1204108486?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-german-cockroach-royalty-free-image/483579386?phrase=german%2Bcockroach https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/the-german-cockroach-royalty-free-image/484249772?phrase=german+cockroach&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/brussel-sprouts-in-a-box-royalty-free-image/1512779841?phrase=raw+brussels+sprouts&adppopup=true https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0271344 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/insect-love-royalty-free-image/483079847?phrase=two+cockroach&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha_glucose_views.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maltose2.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maltotriose.svg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/934123 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161051718 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58350323 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/german-cockroach-scavenging-outside-during-the-royalty-free-image/1480649017?phrase=+cockroach+leaf&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/large-madagascar-hissing-cockroach-crawling-on-tree-stock-footage/1526138475?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/many-red-hearts-particles-emotion-pop-up-on-white-screen-stock-footage/1298561275?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/valentins-day-chocolate-royalty-free-illustration/455435471?phrase=box+of+chocolates&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/red-no-sign-circle-frame-on-checkered-royalty-free-illustration/1408742178?phrase=red+circle+&adppopup=true


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