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If you’re meandering around the UC Riverside campus and see a cockroach, it might have a connection to UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock.
This is a story of what might have been that never was and never will be and it all has to do with Hammock’s cockroaches.
Hammock, who holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis department of entomology and nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, remembers the scenario well.
While on the UC Riverside faculty, he worked on two cultures of very large roaches. One was the wingless Madagascar hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa, and the other, the South American cave cockroach, Blaberus giganteus with “lovely translucent wings.”