‘Unmistakable Boom In Cockroach Activity’ Around Malta

Taking to social media, Exterminator Arnold Sciberras shared a video showing a glimpse of what he termed an ’unmistakable boom in cockroach activity’.

The ‘explosion of Periplaneta americana’ has, according to Sciberras, led to constant calls for insect extermination around the island.

Here, viewers can see an ‘unusually intense mating display’, with a cluster of male cockroaches locked in a ‘feverish contest’, attempting to court two females.

‘It’s not every night that one sees such a display so clearly, but with P. americana, there’s always more going on than meets the eye’, wrote Sciberras.

Have you ever seen this behaviour?

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