Cecil MORELLA AFP Mar 7, 2026 Mar 7, 2026 Updated Mar 8, 2026 A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the underbrush ...

A rare cockroach expert who names new species after Tolkien's fictional creatures, Philippines scientist Christian Lucanas says the disease-bearing bugs deserve more study – and credit – for the ...

BOHOL PROVINCE, Philippines -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was interrupted during a speech, but this was not your ordinary heckler. It was a giant cockroach that crawled onto his shirt at a ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was bugged by a huge “liberal” cockroach during a campaign rally on Wednesday. The insect ran up Duterte’s left shoulder as he was endorsing Senate candidates, ...

In this photo taken on February 18, 2026, Cristian Lucanas, an entomologist from the University of the Philippines Los Banos, looks for cockroaches on a bark of a fallen coconut tree at the tropical ...

A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the underbrush before gently scooping up a cockroach with his bare hands. As ...

As the Southeast Asian country's lone expert on the oft-misunderstood insect -- and discoverer of 15 species -- friends have dubbed the soft-spoken scientist "Ipis Lord", after the local name for the ...

The massively biodiverse Philippines has about 130 known species of cockroach, three-fourths of which are found nowhere else on earth It is not true, for instance, that cockroaches will inherit the ...