#hissing roaches

[dystopianroach]

very glad that my recent video of Medusa looking at the Minecraft roaches is making people happy. Unfortunately, Medusa passed away awhile ago at the age of two and a half due to age complications. This is a video of one of her many daughters chowing down on a strawberry - which interestingly was one of her favorite foods.

[the-vegan-muser]

their little antennae kill me 😂

[cartoonqtpie]

I wanted to draw Oscar with some hissing roaches and Slimey

[gothghostiiexo]

having hissing roached is all fun and games until its 5am and they shove something around so God damn loudly that it wakes you up but. when you go to check on them all of them are hidden and nothing is changed

[rayraywildkinhelp]

kin tips for hissing roaches? please and thank you <3

kin tips for hissing roaches :3

wear brown and black jackets and coats to feel like your exoskeleton!

eat lots of fruits and vegetables!

grow out or braid the front of your hair to look like your antennae!

listen to and imitate their hiss!

so sorry for the short list, bugs are hard to think of tips for >_< hope this helps!

[roachiezz]

ONE OF MY HISSING ROACHES

anyway this is kinda a big start for a first post (i dont know how to work this) but have this image of one of my hissers named Dr. Pepper, hes kinda small rn but he loves his bug jelly and cuddling up to his other cockroach buddy (his names Coca Cola)

[bug-kid-benny]

back when i was a kid like 12 years old or whatever i think i had a pet madagascan hissing cockroach and her name was Rema!!! i loved her so much and i kind of miss having her around, she was supposed to have a partner but he died in the mail sadly. i would let her out like every night into this big playzone i made on the carpet with a wall of little pebbles and it had a tiny sandpit and cardboard tubes and sticks and grass piles and she could climb all around the plantpots and i would hide her favorite snacks for her, she loved basically anything with corn in it, cornflakes and boiled sweetcorn on the cob! i probably could've taken care of her a lot better and made her shedding location a lot safer and she was probably really lonely. once i gave her a little plastic bug that vaguely resembled a roach but idk what it is tbh and she would always sleep right next to it or on top of it I've always been looking forward to getting a mischief of rats as my next pet but since its circumstantially probably not very possible yet i kind of want to try keeping some more hissers!! madagascan hissing roaches are so interesting and cute and chill and relatively low maintenance i love them a lot

[disturbedgent]

In the process of making my very first jar specimen today. I was rearranging my hissing roach enclosure today and I found one of them dead. I thought it was a molt at first. It's sad, but now I can finally make a jar specimen, so today is both somewhat sad AND exciting.

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

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

[onenicebugperday]

@synnesilentweb submitted: This is my adult female Madagascan Hissing Roach, Cinnamon :)

She is beautiful! Please tell her

[mlmxreader]

he fuckin loves jelly pots, didn't think it'd go down as well w the veg but I stand corrected.

[dystopianroach]

the true self lives in the false self

[the-vegan-muser]

family dinner

[tordoise-x3]

His job to protect the ladies…..

[gothghostiiexo]

googling something about your pet and reading the wild shit other people who have the same pet do is the weirdest thing ever like. what do you mean they eat each other

[attacus-atlas-moth]

Science Communication post for school part II: Madagascar hissing cockroaches

This time we looked at light preference and food preference in cockroaches

MHCs are nocturnal detritivores (meaning they eat decaying plant and animal matter). They produce a hissing sound by forcing air out of their spiracles.

The experiment was conducted using choice chambers to give the cockroaches the option to choose between a light and dark area, and later, choose to eat a carrot or slice of pepperoni. They were deprived of food but not moisture for 5 days leading up to the experiment.

The fact they are nocturnal may make it seem like they would prefer the dark. However, at least at time of experimentation (early afternoon) the cockroaches were about an even split on preference.

About half of the cockroaches didn't eat. It's unclear if the majority not eating is due to time of day or if they weren't hungry. Those that did eat seemed to have a preference for the carrot, although a few ate the pepperoni.

In order to record data for this experiment we used google sheets. Nearly everyone wrote down data despite working in small groups. The problem with this is that we did not use any tactics to make sure data wouldn't be repeated, perhaps group numbers would have been a good idea. So I ask you, dear random bug people on tumblr, don't do that! Make sure your data makes sense and is accurate. Even ignoring the small sample size this would not be a good study because I don't know if the data is accurate! Good data is important