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dognightmare4 · 6 months

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sorry i havent drawn anything in a while. have a roach in the nes color palette

#cw bug #tw bug #aseprite #pixel art #nes color palette #madagascar hissing cockroach #halloween madagascar hissing cockroach #im working on a new banner #i may be hyperfixating on MHCes

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foap-enjoyer · 7 months

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2023 Halloween funny moments.

Bit of a different kind of post than normal, but I just wanted to share with the world.

I answer my door each year on Halloween (In the UK) with my many, many animals (snakes, lizards, spiders, ect), and these are some of the best responses I've gotten to each animal this specific year:

With pictures!

So trigger warning for snakes/lizards/cockroaches/tarantulas.

Lizard (Bearded dragon) (adult) - Is that a gecko? - Oh mum look, it's a... it's... a dinosaur? - Oh wow, that's cool. It's a Komodo lizard thing, right? - Mum! Mum look! He has an armadillo-thingy! - Oh my teacher used to have one of those. It died, I think. - It licked me IT LICKED ME I'M GOING TO DIE - Oh my God it's ACE, HI ACE I KNOW YOU (People know my lizard more than me..)

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Snake (Royal 'ball' Python) (adult) - Holy SHIT - Get that thing away FROM MEEEE - Why would you own one of those. Respectfully, Mr.. snake.. owner, sir? - That's one wicked worm my guy - Is it a boa constrictor? I know snakes really well. - I WANNA HOLD IT MUM CAN I HOLD IT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - I like snakes. They like violence, like me. ("Oh, actually he's very shy and gentle...") I don't like this snake. - MUM IT'S THE SNAKE MAN! (I'm well known in these parts as the 'reptile man' haha)

~ Snake (Hognose snake) (adult) - Why can't I hold this snake? ("Because he's very mean. He eats children") *cries* ("Only bad children, I promise!") *cries harder* - He's ginger! Ewwww! - He's very small... But it's the personality that counts, hey mate? - It's a cornsnake! With a.. oh. It's nose is deformed. Was it inbred?

~ Tarantula (Nhandu Chromatus/Brazillian Red 'n' white) (adult) - FUCK NO. FUCK. NO. - PISS OF YA DAFT CUNT (To the spider, not me... I think?) - Is it fluffy? Like a dog, I mean. It looks spiky, like a hedgehog. - Can I hold it? ("No, I'm sorry, they're fragile) Wow I've been lied to I thought they were tough as hell. - You, yeah both of you, you've got issues. - It looks like a Tony or something. Is it called Tony? - That fuckers bigger than my face, you feed him fingers or something?

~ Tarantula (Brachypelma hamorii/Mexican red knee) (baby) - Oh my God... You know what? That's kind of cute. - Mum, can we get one? "Fuck no, Tyler." - It's... what exactly does it do ("Nothing?") well that's boring. - It at least looks cuter than the house-spider I let stay in the corner of my room. He's called Terry.

~ Madagascan hissing cockroaches (adults) - Why would you own these. - Oh these are those hissing ones... Why aren't they hissing? - It bit me ("It's just her legs holding on") damn gurl you got some daggers on your feet - Can I steal them - Can I eat them - Can I take a selfie with them? - What are their names? ("Oh they're named after Mario princesses-") DAMN where's Princess Peach? PEACH?? PEACH WHERE ARE YOU?! (Don't worry, he found Peach, Peach is the third one. Yes, I can tell them apart)

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Just a small reminder that I am an actual professional with these animals and I don't recommend doing this for Halloween unless you know what you're doing and, more importantly, know your animal (especially with tarantulas!). I did not let any child or adult hold my tarantulas nor my hognose (They're venomous, even if it's a small dose, allergic reactions may occur), and I know my python well enough to know he'll never strike, same with my beardie.

These are, also, not the only animals I have. I have thirteen in total :)

Just a lil notice! All fun though! Hope you enjoyed!

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unhingedlesbear · 3 months

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ROACH DUMP!!!

Putting every single one of my roaches in one post. Just to keep track of them and help me identify them, I'll be referring back to this post until I can recognize them off by heart.

MALES:

1: Kolchek

2: Salim

3: Eric

4: Kay

5: Zain

FEMALES:

1: Rachel

2: Kate

3: Tanya

4: Julia

#bugs #bugblr #madagascar hissing cockroach #halloween hissing cockroach #Kolchek Nestor Gregor #Rachel Riley Gregor #others don't have full names yet #Kate is so pretty omfg #and Tanya

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amethyst257 · 10 days

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did you guys know Echo (one of my madagascar hissing cockroaches) is actually female (yes I did name her after the Planes character) and she had babies recently

Baby cockroach warning, plus Echo and her husband (Floyd) in the background. Just lots of cockroaches

Also, my two halloween hissers!

#I have 20-50 of them somewhere in the tank #Only counted 3 so far #My plan is to keep a few of the babies (3 at most) and give the rest of them away because as much as I'd love to keep all of them #I don't have the space or resources for that many cockroaches #Then I'll separate Echo and probably get her a large bug carrier #I'd just get her her own tank but I don't have the space for that

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jonnysinsectcatalogue · 1 year

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Zophobas Darkling Beetle and Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Exhibits - Zophobas morio & Gromphadorhina portentosa

The showcase before you is my follow-up to my last visit to the ROM to see the insects (and the T. rex exhibition) and is the second double showcase to appear on this blog since Halloween’s autumnal insect post in the sunshine.

Since these insects have appeared on this blog several times before, there’s little new information to add to their respective pages, but the Zophobas Beetles and Hissing Cockroaches are certainly worth re-examining, and so they can share the spotlight together. Beginning with the latter, they continue to lounge along their habitat of wood chips and log pieces, most sitting at rest aside from the female individual helping herself to the vegetable plate and a large male occupying the water bottle. If you lead a Cockroach to water, can you make him drink? Yes, with the “cotton wick” method. The plug made of fluff is designed to optimize use of the Roaches’ mouthparts and drink water absorbed by the fluff, rather than lapping it up in droplet form. Water dishes seemingly would work too if all the specimens are large-sized. As these crunchy detritivores primarily obtain moisture from the plant matter they eat the water is supplementary, but definitely necessary as the bits of broccoli, apple and carrot dry out with provoked exposure to the terrarium lights above.

Onto the Darkling Beetles now! Unlike their lounging Roach neighbors, the Darklings were quite active during this visit! There were only a few individuals on the edges of the terrarium, including what appears to be a mating pair (find them on Pictures 2 and 4). Surprisingly, among all the dark, armored shells, there was an active Superworm! The larvae should get along with the adults and without other larvae nearby, it may pupate soon. On the off chance someone reads this and then visits the ROM’s insects, keep an eye out for a pale exoskeleton that is wide at the head and narrowing towards the abdomen. Upon emergence from the exuvia, the new adult begins pale and gradually darkens. With an average pupation time of 2 weeks, all eyes need to be on that Superworm! Meanwhile, looking at the active adults we see most of them moving around their vegetable plate and settling on the best spot to eat a bit of salad or apple. It’s very efficient that both Darklings and Hissing Roaches have a similar diet, and (humorously) neither have the wherewithal to consider what the scorpion next door eats. It looks peaceful during feeding, but even vegetarians can get territorial and aggressive under the right circumstances. Without horns, elaborate mandibles or carnivorous instincts, I wonder what happened to the Darkling Beetle in Picture 3 that would result in an exposed abdomen and open wingcase. Any suggestions?

Pictures were taken on May 16, 2023 with a Google Pixel 4. Please come and see the bugs if you can. The ROM doesn't pay me to say this. I just think their live insects (and natural history section) are worth exploring and learning about.

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katforll313 · 6 months

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Christmas Ornament Catalog

I had a friend over for Thanksgiving and we put up the tree on Black Friday. As we were decorating they kept having to ask us where each ornament went and interpret our frequently contradictory instructions, and my sister said "Ko I thought we had set rules but you've made me realize it is a weirdly specific case-by-case system." It made me think of all of the family stories and tradition and life that goes into the tree.

The Glass Hummingbird

Top of the tree

A gift from Grandmama Denise from the Greenbriar in West Virginia

Glittery Katie Ornament

Mid to low, side or front of the tree

Homemade by Katie in 2004

This is my favorite picture of me as a baby- my eyes look like blueberry colored pits in my head it’s terrifying.

Small White Owl

High on the tree

A gift from Grandma Harriet to Dad

Porcelain Cherub with Gold Accents, one of five

Mid to high on the tree, far from each other

A gift from Grandma Denise to Mom

For a few years there my grandmother would buy these inexpensive angel ornaments and give them to my mother and her sister every single Christmas. Mom sounded fondly annoyed when explaining this.

Glitter Spider Tree Ornament

Mid back of the tree

A gift from Dad to Abbi

It’s because she had a pet fishing spider named Daisy at the time. This is only the second most terrifying pet Abbi ever had placed in her room by my father. The first were the Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which were an actual horror story to have in the home.

Orange Peel Angels, one of a matching set

Mid on the tree, far from each other

Bought by Mom from Ten Thousand Villages, made by artisans in Colombia

These make everything in the box they get stored with smell like oranges to this day.

Wizard of Oz Rainbow Ornament, part of a set of two

Mid of front of the tree

Bought by Mom for Abbi

Nightmare Before Christmas Mayor

Mid to high on the back of the tree

A gift from Mom to Dad

Nightmare before Christmas is my Dad’s favorite Christmas and Halloween movie. One year we were at the Petco and he found chew-toys, like the ones for dogs, that had all of Boogie’s Boys’ faces and one of the Mayor’s and bought them as decor to go up on the mantle.

Silver Wizard

Low front of the tree

Bought by Mom for Abbi and Katie from Pier 1

Wooly Sheep

Bottom side of the tree

Bought by Mom for Abbi and Katie

By far the softest ornament we have. Mom bought it specifically to have ornaments that the cats couldn’t break that she could hang low on the tree.

Acorn, one of a set of five

Anywhere, spread out from one another

A gift from Abbi to Mom from an antique shop in 2021

Abbi's clay angel

Back middle of the tree

Handmade by Aunt Barbara

Purple Spirals

Cover, in any tall empty spots

Bought by Mom from the Cheshire Cat antique store

We went on a shopping trip with her around 2014 after she bought a purple tree skirt and wanted more ornaments to match it.

Dirty Sock Snowman

Bottom back of tree

Handmade by Grandma Harriet

“Mom, I know you did not just hang that dirty sock lookin’ snowman at the very front of tree like that’s where he belongs.”

“Don't say that about him Grandma Harriet made him for us!”

“Yeah out of the dirty sock off of her own foot!”

Dude-man's sand dollar, one of a set of two

Front low on the tree

A custom made gift from Ms. Laura to Mom from a Crabtree Valley Mall kiosk in 1989.

We have another that looks like my Dad’s old cat Simon that my Mom bought for him a different year.

The Apples

Cover, in any empty colorless or empty spaces

Antiques from Grandma Denise to Mom when she first moved out

The black airplane

Top of the front of the tree

A gift from Grandma Harriet to Dad

Aunt Sharon’s ugly-ass pink bear egg

Mid to bottom back of the tree

Handmade by Aunt Sharon in 1998

This is by far the most hideous ornament we own, undeniably one of the most memorable.

Gold-tipped lute-playing angel

Front, mid on tree

A gift from Grandma Denise (also during her angel kick)

Star square Abbi

Eye-level on the tree

A gift from Aunt Lisa to Mom, photo taken in a shoot from the daycare

Star Plush Santa

Bottom of the tree

A gift from Aunt Kimmy to Mom for Abbi's first Christmas

Bonus:

The Christmas Slug

❗NOT❗ allowed on the tree!

The Best Gift

Under the tree. Always. She’s difficult to reach. Bear please come out we have to put the lights on.

#mine #written #photography #cats #christmas

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genshinluvr · 2 years

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yup madagascar hissing cockroaches, i have the Halloween morph and normal ones X3 and yes they let out a hiss like a snake when scared or males fighting or attracting mates or mothers talking to the babies

Oh hell nah 😟 no thank you, I'd rather cuddle with a lion than deal with those monstrosities

#genshinluvr #genshinluvr answers

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cybermeep · 3 months

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person bedridden because of a black hole swirling inside of their stomach. this black hole will inevitably consume everything near and around it, but for now its concentrated into one singular area. this person (me, to make it more clear) will now recall niche & unimportant facts about themselves to anyone going out of their way to read these. hi there

1. they eat donuts in a weird way. essentially, they eat the entire perimeter before ripping the donut in half and eating one half & then the other. apparently this pattern was built because their mother would eat donuts this way; also bagels. they don’t eat bagels this way, which makes for an odd feeling.

2. when they were younger, there would be extended periods of time where they would have a small, somewhat high pitched squeak of sorts leave their throat. this was an interesting noise to make.. it was also peculiar. this pattern still pops up now and again. as to why, they’re unsure. what they do remember is that it felt like a compulsion to make the noise & they distinctly remember feeling as if when they were younger that if they didn’t make the noise something bad would happen. this is a rather telling sign of compulsive tendencies from childhood

3. as remembered from previous night ramblings aloud to themself and fits of awful irony, they remember being a young child and being given the opportunity by their 4th grade teacher to talk about the weather. this was the same teacher who had madagascar hissing cockroaches in their classroom, if they remember right. they remember having a blast of a time doing this. they still have a video on their google drive of one of these recordings..

4. more irony here, they remember liking a certain character mentioned on the dead meat podcast as a younger individual and distinctly remember finding them quote, interesting. they hadn’t watched the movie they were from until later on in life. this feels jarring to write.

5. when their old neighbors were still around, they remember asking their neighbors child named zee (college aged, should clarify) about their friends. zee was, and still is, extremely nice. they would hang out with this person often. they were like an older sibling they never had, in a way. because of this, items from adolescence and items zee would enjoy, like overwatch or fran bow, are seen as immensely nostalgic. markiplier is one of the content creators which was from this time they remember. dead by daylight is nostalgic as well. their original point with this story is that they once had a discussion with zee about sexuality. they were a child, then. zee asked them what they themselves thought they could be. they said pansexual, as they thought gender didn’t matter to them. they then proceeded to draw the huntress from dead by daylight, along with zee’s friends.

6. speaking of zee, there was another point during adolescence which they remember. they had a sleepover upstairs, and remembered zee playing overwatch with its halloween edition. they were playing reaper with a certain headless horseman inspired skin equipped. this person was a integral part of their childhood. they still have the rainbow alpaca zee gave them as they moved out of their parents house. they still cry when they see it. other trinkets have sadly been lost to time, but that alpaca is one thing which continues to exist as a memory of someone which shaped the person they became.

7. although it is truly hard to say, they remember being in middle school and finding a person they knew fascinating. they were both in the GSA club for their school. they thought this person had a very pretty face. they then proceeded to connect back with this person again in high school. they never forgot what they looked like.

thats all the emotional vulnerability i have at the moment. take these snapshots of my life and infer as you will!

#cybers tangents

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saturniidays · 4 years

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This is the greatest idea I’ve ever had

#blattodea #madagascar hissing cockroach #halloween hissing cockroach #elliptorhina javanica #pets #mine #insect #bug #bugblr #bubs

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ajaybird27 · 5 years

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When the squad is feeling spooky!

#madagascar hissing cockroach #zookeeper #cockroach #fall #halloween #personal #work

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wildliferehabstudent · 5 years

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I got three Halloween Hissing Cockroaches yesterday for my school to use as educational animals! I'm super excited about them. They are currently in a 2 g container with plenty of moss, bark, and a monkey grass plant. If anyone has any care tips, let me know!

#zoology #madagascar hissing roaches #hissing cockroaches #cockroach #cockroaches #roach #roaches #halloween hissing cockroaches #pets #insects #bugblr

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dognightmare4 · 4 months

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all taken from Mommy's Little Monsters - Creature Feature

ordering the name tag from here

#madagascar hissing cockroach #halloween hissing cockroach #creature feature band

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medevacreptiles · 3 years

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Hissing Cockroaches.

A few different types. These are more my partner’s specialty than mine;

#hissing cockroach #invertebrate #Madagascar hissing cockroach #Tiger hisser #halloween hisser

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unhingedlesbear · 3 months

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NEW COCKROACHES LETS GOOOO

Got a bunch of Halloween hissers! They're all pretty young so I was having a hard time sexing them (I'm not tryna breed them) but I think I've got it right. Anyway here's one of the males, Salim <3

SO pretty

#bugs #bugblr #Halloween hissing cockroach #halloween hisser #hissing cockroach #madagascar hissing cockroach

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amethyst257 · 10 days

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So happy rn my mom got me more cockroaches

I keep pet cockroaches, two madagascar hissing cockroaches named Floyd and Echo and my mom got me two Halloween hissing cockroaches today. Idk what I'm gonna name them, I'm probably going to try holding them a little bit and I'll think of a name then

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eagerbones · 6 years

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Phone quality pictures because life is busy.

Hissing cockroach molt! Or it’s a halloween hisser I’m not sure anymore.

#hissing cockroach #roaches are friends #roach #roaches #hissing roach #hissers #madagascar hissing cockroach #halloween hissing cockroach #halloween hissers #pet roach #katsaridaphobia #bug post #pet post #my pets

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