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Cockroaches: the thread; All things cockroach!
Topic Started: Oct 23 2015, 11:01 AM (641 Views)
DINOCARID
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Yay, cockroaches! I'm sure you all know that cockroaches are a lot more than household pests, but i was astounded when i learned of their truly mind-boggling diversity from the online version of cockroaches: ecology, behavior, and natural history, and i highly recommend it for anyone that wants to learn more about them. And cockroaches don't get enough love around her, so here is a thread for all things cockroach, from news about new discoveries, to general discussion, to roach-keeper to roach-keeper conversation. I personally have a bunch of Madagascar hissers, adults and multiple litters of nymphs, and a few dubias which currently don't have adult males to build their population up, so i'm waiting for the male nymphs to grow.



Now go, spread the knowledge, cockroaches are the rightful rulers of the earth. :evilsmile:

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Cockroaches are pretty neat critters, I have tons of them in my Novazoic project, though that has been temporarily put on hold so that I can focus on some other ideas I have.
At one point I had quite a collection of cockroaches, with banana, domino, and headlight cockroaches. I have fond memories of sitting in bed at night, trying to get to sleep as my cockroaches attempted to push the lid off the tank.
If you like cockroaches then try the book 'Relics', which is full of beautiful photography. It has quite a few unusual cockroaches, including a fly mimic and a 'pill' cockroach, which can roll itself into a ball.
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This thread belongs in General Discussion.
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Agreed. It's hardly 'stories and musings'.
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Sorry for that, i'm new here. :/
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Both the diversity and the economic importance of the cockroaches increases substantially once one realizes that termites (yes, termites) are actually members of the same order as them. Termites are nested within the Blattoidea, and probably diverged from the rest of them as far back as the Triassic. It's just as accurate to say termites are cockroaches as it is to say ants are hymenopterans.
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Knew that, and here's another interesting tidbit: roaches of the genus cryptocercus are the closest living relatives of modern termites, being genetically closer to them than to all other roaches. In cryptocercus you can see how the eusocial behavior of termites evolved, with monogamous pairs and their offspring, in other words families, living in a single log.

The adults feed the nymphs with anal secretions, they construct galleries in the rotten wood they make their nest in, and can even digest wood with the assistance of gut bacteria, and all these things are also demonstrated by many species of termites.
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Sorry for that, i'm new here. :/

Don't worry about it. When I joined a couple of weeks back (great Darwin's beard, it feels like I've been here forever!), I pretty much wandered around the forum making mistakes. We all start out like that.
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Thanks, and can we get someone official to move it?
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At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

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I haaaaaate when roaches are depicted like that! Cockroaches have a very elegant body form that is totally ignored in pop-culture depictions. Well except for that cheap musical i can't remember the name of.
Edited by DINOCARID, Oct 24 2015, 11:21 AM.
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Kind of shows the resourcefulness of cockroaches:

Cockroaches found in a man's ear!
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Whoa. Makes you wonder their potential as ectosymbionts or ectoparasites. *strokes chin thoughtfully while staring into space*
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*strokes chin thoughtfully while staring into space*

I'll second that.
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