Termites = Cockroaches

It is true! Science and technology have come a long way and the latest development reveals that despite looking like ants, termites belong to the cockroach family. Here is a paragraph that more or less sums it up from LiveScience.com Animal Domain "Termites Are Actually Social Cockroaches":

After conducting the most exhaustive genetic analyses yet into the subject, studying 107 different species of termites, cockroaches and mantises from across the globe, entomologist Paul Eggleton at the Natural History Museum in London and his colleagues now conclude termites are indeed a family of cockroaches, findings detailed online April 5 in the journal Biology Letters.