I love you animals that not many people like, I love you animals that are widely misunderstood, I love you animals that many think are "ugly" or "scary", I love you animals that are venomous and that bite and sting, I love you animals that express love in their own quiet, unique way, I love you animals with scary teeth and sharp claws, I love you animals that get a bad rap, I love you animals that are seen as "gross" or "weird", I love you animals that are rarely seen, I love you animals that are awake in the night and in the cold, I love you animals that look a little silly, I love you animals that are nearly extinct or were the endlings of their kind, I love you animals whose sorrow shows in ways humans can't understand, I love you animals-

My beloved Kala passed this past winter. Oh how one little bug could have such a big place in my heart.

Something else abt cockroaches is that they can also hold ur hand

Cyborg Cockroaches? What in the Creepy Crawlers is Going on?

Cyborg Cockroaches? What in the Creepy Crawlers is Going on? #Insects #Technology #Rescue #MadagascarHissingCockroaches #JapaneseResearch #RoboRoach

Image Source: The Indian Express OK, I think most of us are not too keen on cockroaches, waterbugs, or whatever you want to call those paraphyletic groups of insects. They give many of us the heebie-jeebies, especially when we turn on the lights and find one furiously scurrying to quickly locate a hiding spot away from the sole of a homicidal shoe. So when I was reading an article about cyborg…

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some hissing cockroach appreciation! it only takes three roaches to make a handful

this one was the largest (probably in the whole culture of them) at 13.5 grams!

(Gromphadorhina portentosa x mutts)

Going through a very bad artblock rn but for now have some smellies

hissing cockroach toe beans

madagascar hissing cockroaches

i just need to show this,,, i recently got some madagascar hissing roaches and look!!!!!! freshly peeled!!!!! im so proud of this little man,,,

Freshly peeled angel!!! Please tell him he's beautiful

the cutest little peeled guy in the world wtf

Making sure my kids have good taste.

golden pile of hissing roaches

Something about cockroaches is that u can pet them

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of Roachelle, everyone’s favorite cockroach. She was a good insect, even if she did make me a single grandmother of 30 with no warning.

Rest in peace little lady. 💚

this mysterious object is an ootheca, a cockroach egg case, but this one is special:

while females of many roaches, including household species, will run around with hard-skinned oothecae extruded before dumping them somewhere safe, cockroaches in the family Blaberidae extrude then withdraw a soft, membranous ootheca into their bodies again until the eggs are ready to hatch—they’re livebearing! it isn’t a true uterus, but the brood pouches of some blaberids supply the developing eggs with essential moisture.

this ootheca belongs to a hybrid stock Madagascan hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa x hybrid). roaches of this genus may produce a nutritious fluid from the brood sac which supplies the babies with a good meal before they part ways with their mother.

read about ovoviviparity in cockroaches here:

Random bug posting,, I wanna talk about my roaches,,

I love them sooo much and idk I just wanna share some cool things I like/notice about them

The way they look around with their antennas

How they stretch out when I pet them

They often extend/contract their body given their surroundings

They’ll angle themselves towards foreign contact to make it harder for them to be grabbed by the underside

The hisses lol

The way they sometimes move food from the food plate and take it elsewhere

Watching them feel around with their palps (and go “they’re tasting it”)