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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

I was originally sent these for possible identification. They are species found in the Grenadines (micro islands located between St. Vincent and Grenada in the southern Caribbean). At the time I thought the requirement was species identifications which could be rather difficult but the following...

This spider is commonly found close to rivers and prefers medium to high humidity. Adults build large orb webs similar to garden orb weavers. The orbs are generally two feet across, up to three, though the anchor lines can extend more than six feet. It is one of the only orb weavers that can...

Female GBB immature S. h. arizonensis

The posts in this section have been reposted from the last two message boards. A number of interesting, impressive, landmark, unique and even hilarious issues have been reported or discussed. The for sale and wanted posts provide interesting insight into the availability of species in the past...

This was a somewhat popular species a few years back. Anyone still have them/have any available?

A significant aspect of housing for many of the roaches is the barriers that prevent animals from being all over the lid when opened for feeding and watering. Of course there are various nonclimbing roaches like Blaberus that require no barrier. Vaseline has proven very successful in keeping...

It's interesting that even after sites have been removed and messages have been deleted there are web archives that catch a lot of the information and store it (forever?). One problem with the old Allpet Roaches message board was that messages were deleted after 500 (years ago after 300) and...

Allpet Roaches began in 1980 with a gift of three adult pairs of giant cockroaches. My father worked at the Cleveland Aquarium for a short time that year and the director kept two types of giant roaches as pets, of course he knew his son had a special interest in insects so he brought me them as...