Just wondering. What species do you consider to be the least offensive of the roaches we culture?
By offensive I mean
-smell
-big leg spines
-fond of pooping on you when you pick them up.
-you get the idea.
for comparison I recently obtained B. dubia and E. prosticus. I like the dubia much more though I admit the prosticus are pretty nice looking. However, prosticus are pretty well armed with leg spines and will stick you pretty good when you try to pick them up(for adults, I found grabbing their wings works very well to avoid that), they have a distinct defensive odor(not really a bad odor but still), and the nymphs are fond of smearing you with droppings or regurgitating on you when picked up. The dubia, in contrast, have very small spines and can be picked up by putting fingers on opposite sides of them and picking them up without worry of your fingers getting pricked. They have no smell that I can detect, and are very nice roaches in general.
I've kept peppered roaches(big spines, but very clean), and hissers(spiny, nymphs will sometimes poop on you), and B. lateralis(no spines, not much smell, but squishy bodied and very fast...so not really what I'm looking for as a winner of this contest).
Or maybe another way of putting it. If a squeamish(not scared) person wanted to hold a roach in your collection...what would you give them?
By offensive I mean
-smell
-big leg spines
-fond of pooping on you when you pick them up.
-you get the idea.
for comparison I recently obtained B. dubia and E. prosticus. I like the dubia much more though I admit the prosticus are pretty nice looking. However, prosticus are pretty well armed with leg spines and will stick you pretty good when you try to pick them up(for adults, I found grabbing their wings works very well to avoid that), they have a distinct defensive odor(not really a bad odor but still), and the nymphs are fond of smearing you with droppings or regurgitating on you when picked up. The dubia, in contrast, have very small spines and can be picked up by putting fingers on opposite sides of them and picking them up without worry of your fingers getting pricked. They have no smell that I can detect, and are very nice roaches in general.
I've kept peppered roaches(big spines, but very clean), and hissers(spiny, nymphs will sometimes poop on you), and B. lateralis(no spines, not much smell, but squishy bodied and very fast...so not really what I'm looking for as a winner of this contest).
Or maybe another way of putting it. If a squeamish(not scared) person wanted to hold a roach in your collection...what would you give them?
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