We often encounter cockroaches unexpectedly, but basically there is no pleasant feeling. Instead, we yell, avoid them, kill them quickly, and even some people are afraid of cockroaches like tigers. Cockroaches have a very unpleasant odor, which is a signal for contact between their species, but can give a person an extremely sick feeling that makes one want to gag. However, some large cockroaches have become the favorite of some insect lovers and kept as pets. Everyone can agree to treat kittens and puppies as sweethearts, but liking cockroaches makes most people incomprehensible and unacceptable. Although cockroaches are still a niche pet at present, pet owners like them no less than those who like kittens and puppies. As pet cockroaches, some are larger in size, some look weird, some have unique colors, and some make noises like songworms.
The Australian rhino cockroach is the largest and longest-lived cockroach. The adult body length can reach 8 cm, and some individuals can live for more than 10 years. The shape is very textured. Both males and females are wingless and like to burrow. The Oriental cockroach is flat, like a miniature shield, with white markings on the front edge of the pronotum, reddish-brown sides of the abdomen, and no wings. Dubia cockroaches are the most worry-free cockroaches. They cannot crawl on smooth surfaces, so they are not afraid of escaping. Male adults have wings and female adults have no wings. The Cuban cockroach is a very beautiful cockroach. The adults have a pale green body color and large, broad wings that extend beyond the abdomen; the larvae are brown or black throughout. The biggest feature of Madagascar vocal cockroaches is that they can make sounds. Both males and females have no wings. The male adults have a raised breast carapace, which is a fighting tool when they compete for females. The pronotum of a dead man’s head cockroach has a bizarre skull-like pattern. Pseudo-dead-headed cockroaches are also popular due to their resemblance to dead-headed cockroaches. Although the Peruvian giant cockroach is called a “giant”, it is not very big, but its wings are relatively large and wide, so it looks quite majestic; although both male and female adults have wings, they cannot flight.
Perhaps out of curiosity, pet cockroaches are very popular among some people and can be bought in pet stores or flower and bird markets in many countries. my country’s pet cockroaches are basically purchased from abroad. However, this behavior has security risks and may lead to biological invasion. The escape of cockroaches during the feeding process, or being discarded by some so-called enthusiasts, may have a certain impact on the local ecological environment, or even destroy the local ecological environment, threatening the survival of other local species. At present, our country has stopped this kind of behavior.
In fact, there are also some distinctive wild cockroach species in my country. For example, the broad-spotted cockroach that lives in dead wood, has no wings, has a hard exoskeleton, is medium to large in size, beautiful in appearance, and has a long life cycle. Moreover, it is widely distributed in my country, does not harm the ecological environment, and can be raised and appreciated as pet insects.