#blaberus

[rbade-art]

[neechiegeckos]

Come and meet some Discoid Cockroaches!

[hydrasaura]

I love how everyone calls them angels

i can be your angle................or yuor devil

[crevicedwelling]

cockroach appreciation time!

a big and beautiful Blaberus giganteus seen in Costa Rica. I removed it from someone else’s cabin, and it posed nicely on a palm (after prickling me with its leg spines), then fluttered off into the jungle

a cockroach this size makes an audible thump when landing, a wonderful presence to these beasts

look at those big eyes almost meeting on top of the head!

[vintagewildlife]

Giant cave cockroach (Blaberus giganteus) By: Fredric L. Frye From: Captive Invertebrates 1992

[strangefunangel]

I swear on my life if Paris Anderson suddenly somehow “rebirths” in Watch Me I’m GOING TO CRASH THE FRICK OUT. Is literally the cockroachiest cockroach known to man and has come back to life like a gazillion times. It’s time to GO and STAY GONE you freakish loser. You will find me red-eyed, sleep, deprived and sweaty if I find out that blaberus, roaching crotonbug found a way to crawl out of the pits of hell, survive and come out of his dingy hole to RUIN MY DAY

[little-island-writer]

I'd like to introduce everyone to some of my favourite roaches. ♡

1 - Dominio cockroach

Therea petiveriana

2 - Flower cockroach (these also come in sapphire!!)

Eucorydia dasytoides

3 - Emerald cockroach

Pseudoglomeris magnifica

4 - Centurion Porcelain Cockroach

Gyna centurio

5 - Halloween Hissing Cockroach

Elliptorhina javanica

6 - Death's Head Cockroach

Blaberus craniifer

That's all for now. These little guys are so misunderstood, so I hope I have convinced at least one person they can be beautiful. Personally the death's heads are my favourite. I have a small colony of them I'm hoping to grow. ♡

[bugging-u]

Temporary setup (I'll move them to a larger tank once they start molting into adults.) For my new Blaberus giganteus. I added the husk of an ancient one for them to worship use as a hide.

[dystopianroach]

female death’s head cockroach. black caped variant (Blaberus craniifer)

[durianemporium]

Say what you will about cockroaches, but they have some excellent genus names. Blaberus? Blaptica? Gromphadorhina!?! Just wonderful.

[foxcockrevolution]

i used to keep a colony of blaberus giganteus, they're so big that they can't fly

oh wait so they're just like me fr

[neechiegeckos]

Gravid female Discoid Roach

[cinnabarts]

blaberus | mus regis | columbae | mucere

a series of woodcut prints i made a few months ago and only just got to scan

[crevicedwelling]

I absolutely love cockroaches and it's so refreshing to see other people who like them too!! What are your favorite species? What kinds do you own/would you like to own? (Also I think about that picture of the roach pondering the orb every day lol)

I quite like any roach with fancy long wings, so stuff like Megaloblatta and some of the Blaberus. can’t go wrong with green stuff either like Panchlora and I recently found out there’s a green Asian genus as well, Sorineuchora! not to mention all the popular colorful ones… Rochaina and Gyna and Eucorydia… but even a good old Periplaneta has its charms! and of course “termites” is a quirky but valid answer… and this is why PLEASE never ask me my favorite species out of any classification higher than family or I’ll waste time writing this junk

my favorite I’ve kept is probably my tiny Neoblatella detersa. I’m not currently interested in culturing any more roaches since I have my hands full with isopods.

[jonnysinsectcatalogue]

Brazilian Giant Cockroach - Blaberus giganteus

Moving into week two of insect exhibits at the Toronto Zoo, we now come to explore species of a more tropical variety. It will begin with this post and then 2 more to follow over the next few days. And so, behold a Cockroach colony featuring giants among their world! The stature of these Roaches make them among of the largest of their order. For comparison to another tropical specie, a majority of the adult specimens here are around the same length as the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach (reportedly between 5-10cm), while some are even longer and certainly wider. Large as both species are, there are still larger Roaches out there such as those in the genus Megaloblatta (with 'mega' in the name, there's no contest), but today it's all about the Brazilian Giant Cockroaches. Some individuals here are likely to be longer than those I've seen in the ROM's insect exhibits. However, it's hard to judge without a ruler, and more importantly B. giganteus appears more dainty compared to its Madagascar relative, which appears more compact due to the lack of wings. On the subject of wings, the adults in the terrarium are all capable of flight. However, just because they can doesn't mean they have the inclination (it is a small, protected exhibit). Under most conditions, they are reported to be infrequent fliers, only doing so when necessary (for escape and dispersal potentially).

A quick judgment suggests that male Brazilian Giant Roaches are found to be airborne more as females are heavier. Regardless of age, weight or size, sprinting and scurrying is the best option for a Roach, and a flattened body allows an escape beneath a stone, log or into a crack in their environment. Young nymphs learn quickly how fast they can run and the only get better as they molt. I wished I could've glimpsed that among the individuals here, either from an adult or the wingless nymphs. There are many late instars of the latter affixed to their barky decorations, but if you examine closely there are smaller, trilobite-like nymphs hiding about. This begs the question on how many oothecas (egg cases, see the Mantis cases for reference) and fertilized females were and/or are around in this exhibit? Reason being that population dynamics and control are necessary in such a close environment, and once a B. giganteus female is fertilized by a male, she's set for life in terms of offspring! Looking at the undersides of the individuals here, there are likely to be more females in this exhibit (or maybe balanced, hard to tell) than males (males have additional styli appendages at the abdomen's tip), giving them something in common with the next insect I'll be sharing from the Toronto Zoo.

Since the insects belong to the Toronto Zoo, I’ve marked them with the Mantis icon. Pictures were taken August 27, 2023 at the Toronto Zoo with a Google Pixel 4. Please go and visit the animals (insects very much included).

[vintagewildlife]

Giant cave cockroach (Blaberus giganteus) By: Fredric L. Frye From: Captive Invertebrates 1992