A cockroach seen here where else? At the Olive Garden.

Unlike Americans even a cockroach knows when it’s time to stop eating sugar. From the BBC…

A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to eradicate them.

Wow. Evolution. We should try that…

American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a “reorganised” sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as bitter.

A North Carolina State University team tested the theory by giving cockroaches a choice of jam or peanut butter.

They then analysed the insects’ taste receptors, similar to our taste buds.

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BBC News – Cockroaches lose their ‘sweet tooth’ to evade traps.