My new plexiglas 5.5 gallon tank is working out so well for me and my cockroaches! They seem much "happier" than in the screened-in contraption I had them in before, and they are contentedly hanging out on the two upside down cardboard pint berry containers I put in. A nice peaceful scene ( Read more... )

Tonight I am moving all of my Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches out of their plastic cage into Lizzy's old hamster cage, which is an old glass fish tank with a screen mesh cover ( Read more... )

I first met them in an exhibit at the Liberty Science Center in NJ when my two girls were little. Frankly, they gave me a case of the skeeves ( Read more... )

I guess we are more related to the cockroach than I thought! ;) I got a kick out of this article in which scientists determined that in addition to just humans and dogs, cockroaches can learn a conditioned response to a stimulus associated with food, too! As in the classic Pavlovian experiment, the cockroaches eventually just responded to the ( Read more... )