Cockroach Appreciation Blog

Babyroach eating oranges

critters i held recently :-D from left to right, madagascan hissing cockroach (male i think?) dragonfly nymph (very cute) and a crayfish

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my beautiful friend Burger

Sketches from today's trip to the zoo!

And it sounds so cool that I just say 'yes’ and figure out the 'how’s and 'how-much’s afterwards.

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 13TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Two photos of two cockroaches, one more brown and enshadowed on a window pane, while the other is more black and red and standing on a grey wooden board /End IDs.]

You could be forgiven for not recognising it from underneath!

I took this photo in January 2010 when one of my hissing cockroaches gave birth. These little guys were only seconds old… you can actually see the mother’s abdomen in the upper left, still releasing them. HERE is the video I took of their birth. These roaches give live birth and on average give birth to around 30 nymphs at a time.

Making sure all the roaches know eachother

Hygienic

[via Katherine Dey Art]

And that freaky little bug in the last picture (under the roach) is a species of isopod. I picked maybe 10 out of my backyard from under a piece of wood and added them to the roach colony. I’m so glad I did! Isopods eat fungus, rotting plant matter, etc. Essentially they’re a fantastic clean-up crew for my roach cage! The only problem with them is the fact that they reproduce so quickly and are a little large. I’m starting to get overcrowded with them…