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Blatella asahinai looks very similar to B. germanica but behaves differently: it rarely invades homes and flies readily. It was introduced in the southeast in the 80s but is making its way west. I noticed an article a month or two ago about how it's benificial activity of feeding on certain...

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Happy Birthday! Nice photos (how's that review coming along? ;) )

This is my favorite all time rhinoceros beetle:

Never put your G. portentosa with your Tiger hissers Gromphadorhina grandidieri (listed in Europe as "Princisia vanwaerbeki black and white", etc.) Unfortunately it would appear that they can cross. (It should not be that great a surprise as they have the same male genitalia.)

http://www.catherinechalmers.com/cockroach.cfm I think I like the bee disguise best.

Here's a photo of the common hisser mites living on an E.laevigata female. Does anyone have an E.chopardi culture with mites?

Happy birthday! I hope you get some nice roaches for your birthday.

Congrats on the big 22! :D

I've been hearing more stories lately about people who had infestation troubles with this species. I'm not sure if calling them (Shelfordella tartara) made them sound like they weren't a very close relative of one of the worste pests, Blatta orientalis. I was surprised at how popular these...

American Cockroach Society approved common names for cockroach species. 1. Arenivaga bolliana = Boll's Sand Cockroach 2. Arenivaga floridensis = Florida Sand Cockroach 3. Archimandrita tessellata = Peppered Roach 4. Attaphila fungicola = Ant Cockroach 5. Blaberus atropos = Atropos Roach 6...

These are early instar C.B. S. coleoptrata:

Genetic deformities in roaches are rare and often once in a lifetime events, such as the hisser Gyandromorph depicted on the Allpet Roaches main page. While such deformities tend to be undesirable they usually can't be bred for anyway since the individual is incapable of reproducing. The...

Here are some nifty pill millipedes from the Philippines. They are the same size as the Tanzanian adventive Arthrosphaera brandti I've never seen photographs or information on this pill millipede on the net before.

Pseudomops septentrionalis is featured in the present issue of Invertebrates-Magazine.

For fun, for a nominal fee, I do bug exhibits a couple times a year for a botanical garden bug event and two northern Ohio metroparks bug events (the one last month had 5,800 visitors). For the last 10-12 years as part of the display I have included a "cockroach petting zoo" -along with the...

No matter how big the cage or imaginative the decorations healthy colonies eventually face trouble with overcrowding. Certainly the species and its habits determine the level where overcrowding causes serious issues. The problem is you usually can't just let the overcrowding weed out less...

My friend Frank Romboy used to make Hisser Huts that made it possible to keep much larger numbers of animals in a cage than normal. Far superior to egg carton and ideal for certain genera like Gromphadorhina and Opisthoplatia. Females of these species are less likely to abort or hold eggcases...

Molting/post molt pill millipede