Recent content by Chinese insect fans

A unknown Periplaneta species ootheca hatched several days ago. The ootheca was found in a restaurant. I really don't know whether the babies with black and white color are Periplaneta australasiae, Periplaneta brunnea or Periplaneta fuliginosa. Because the appearance of the young nymphs of the...

One of my friends said that his Macropanesthia rhinoceros ate up a moth pupa several days ago. I also read some articles on the Internet which said that cockroaches can control bedbugs by eating them. So I wonder whether cockroaches have hunting behavior or not. Or is that just because the...

My friend found this in a small stream of China. He said it lived in the water and got out of the water to breathe sometimes. I have never seen this kind of species before. Who can tell me what cockroach it is?

I collected 2 eggs of Chinese gecko in southern China about a month ago. They were hatched these days. When they were born, they were already about 5cm long in total. Their mother is about 18cm in length. Now I feed them mosquitos.

I have kept a Surinam cockroach for 2 months. But it just produce one nymph, why?

This funnel web spider was collected from China. It keeps burrowing all day. It also made the entrance of the hole it burrowed closed. I am very worried about it. Though I know it is in the soil, I can't see it everywhere.

One of my friends travelled to New Zealand last week. He found some roaches there. I don't know their's name.

What kind of cockroach can reproduce asexually like American roach and Surinam roach? Can Periplaneta australasiae do so?