Cockroaches, mosquitoes, ticks and stinging insects are more active during periods of heavy rain... and you might find some in or around your house.

If you are like most people, you will become determined to kill all of the roaches when you see them in your house. Despite such hatred towards them, how do cockroaches manage to thrive all around ...

As you may have realised, a dirty area usually results in more cockroaches. But dirty doesn't always mean mess. Try to keep your house as clutter-free as you can. Any small, dark hole or crevice ...

A woman has told of how she woke up to find cockroaches "crawling all over her" in bed - and images show pests "overrunning" her flat. Council tenant Karen Barrett, from Great Barr, Birmingham ...

For as long as humans have been around, the cockroach has been an uninvited house guest. But how much do you know about these resilient creatures? Britain has three native species of cockroach.

During the procedure, they discovered the uninvited intruder lurking in the man’s small intestine. "A live cockroach in the small intestine is a life-threatening situation," Dr Vatsya said ...