Rockin' Roaches & More

A repository of personal anecdotal experience keeping cockroaches, tarantulas, and isopods, as well as the preservation and pinning of insects, as I get around to it. Welcome! Have An Appropriate Theme Song

Current Cast of Skitterers

Cockroaches

Hissing Cockroaches

• Tiger Hissers ("Black" cultivar, very numerous) - Gromphadorhina grandidieri
• Wide-Horned Hissers (few, but gaining in numbers... Slowly.) - Gromphadorhina oblongonota The only image on wikipedia
• Halloween Hissers (new, few, growing fast) - Elliptorhina javanica

Other Roaches

• Florida Skunk Roaches (“Silver Springs” cultivar, extremely numerous, ironically pleasant-smelling) - Eurycotis floridana
• Death's Head Roaches ("University of California, Riverside" cultivar, many and sneaky) - Blaberus craniifer
• Ivory-Head Roaches ("Ivory" cultivar, very polite but firm with their boundaries) - Eublaberus distanti
• Giant Lobster Roaches (banished from the bug room for stinky crimes, coping well) - Henschoutedenia flexivitta
• Simandoa Cave Roaches (my pride and joy, and a joy to have in class) - Simandoa conserfariam
• A Simandoa cave roach!

Isopods

• There's a lot. I'll get around to it sometime that isn't midnight.
• To tide you over

Arachnids

Tarantulas

• I'll get there. The spiders appreciate patience.

Other Arachnids

• Asian Forest Scorpion (Margaret, fan of having one cricket in each claw and a third in her mouth, an enigma) - Heterometrus spinifer
• Vinegaroon (Adelaide, very wee, very secretive) - Thelyphonus sp.

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