Cockroach Appreciation Blog

Hello again- please look at my new son Shrek. I ‘rescued’ a pair of older hissing roaches over the weekend from a neighbor who was moving and needed to rehome them urgently.

They’re going from a substrate-free Critter Keeper with a paper towel tube hide to a 10-gallon semi-bioactive setup. It’s been really fun to watch the male explore dirt, leaves, rocks, and bark for the first time (the female remains in the paper towel tube so now I have a lovely little simulated forest floor with a big paper towel tube in the middle).

Thank you, that is all.

My babbeh giant peppered roaches. These little guys will grow to be around 4+ inches at adulthood! I hope to be able to breed them I love them so much.

I have six at the moment some are much younger than the others I couldn’t get a shot of the tiny ones because they were too flighty.

Excuse the dirt on my hands and fingernails I was kinda digging around in their enclosure to round them up.

Charlotte Collins 

Angry Crab! (2013) & This Portrait of My Cockroach (2013)

Mais bien sur!!

Panchlora regalis, family Blaberidae, found in Suriname and French Guiana

photographs: Maruyama-M. & Jérémie Lapèze

Eunyctibora bicolor, family Ectobiidae, Peru

photograph by Geoff Gallice

Mitchell’s Diurnal Cockroach (Polyzosteria mitchelli), family Blattidae, order Blattodea, Bunjil, Western Australia

photograph by v_winter

Emerald Cockroach (Pseudoglomeris magnifica), family Blaberidae, found in Viet Nam and Southern China

photograph by Richard’s Inverts

Blister Beetle Mimic Wood Roach (Melyroidea magnifica), family Polyphagidae, found in Peru and Ecuador

Claims have been made by researchers that this species is eusocial (at least partially, like honeybees, many ants, and termites).

However this assertion is not accepted by many entomologists. The original researchers that posited eusociality in this communal species made many dubious assumptions.

This species obviously mimics blister beetles that can blast caustic chemicals at predators. The cockroach cannot, however.

photograph from: Anton Sorokin & Adrian Tejedor

Ladybird Mimic Cockroach (Prosoplectasp.), family Ectobiidae, Los Baños, Luzon, Philippines

photograph by George Beccaloni

Eushelfordia pica, family Ectobiidae, Ecuador

photograph by Andreas Kay

Ball Cockroach (Perisphaerus spp.), family Blaberidae, Singapore

L - exuvia (shed exoskeleton) R - actual cockroach

Fun with Mr. Domino Roach! (Please excuse his appearance, he adopts a subterranean lifestyle during daylight hours.)