LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - University of Kentucky researchers have received nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a more effective and longer-lasting approach to cockroach control in affordable housing.

“It’s a pretty widespread problem that’s kind of gone under the radar,” said Zachary DeVries, Ph.D., the project’s principal investigator and an associate professor of entomology at UK.

The three-year study, led by UK’s Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and conducted in collaboration with Louisiana State University, aims to reduce cockroach allergens — a major asthma trigger for more than 25 million Americans, particularly in low-income and urban communities.

“Cockroaches are common in many communities, and they are n

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