Hissing Cockroaches are good pets
The hissing cockroaches are good pets and their search in the US is increasing, announced the Associated Press.
These insects are between 5 and 7.6 cm long and their name derives from the characteristic hissing when they are disturbed.
But they quickly lose that habit when they are domesticated by their owner.
This species is quite spectacular and has yet another "quality".
The hissing cockroaches, unlike their home relatives, don't like to hide and flee from the light.
If a similar insect-pet escapes you, it will hardly survive in the typical household where the temperature and humidity are unsuitable for it, and you can hardly find food.
Of the four thousand species of cockroaches known to science, only 25 are for growing at home, and only 5 are good pets.
Not only the hissing cockroaches are wanted. There are types of cockroaches that are bred only artificially, like those with white eyes-a rather unusual mutation.
In the beginning they were found in a deep coal mine and after 1940 were artificially razvdeni. But if you are not convinced that you should become the owner of a domesticated cockroach, you can bet on their direct cousins-bogomolkite. They are very popular and do not repel the children.
Despite his harmless species bogomolkite are ruthless predators, often killing them of cannibalism and go of representatives of their own species. After the female is fertilized, she is very often ugoŝava with the head of a buck
China cultivates 100 Hill. Cockroaches as pets
37-year-old Chinese grown in her home 100 hill. Cockroaches she calls "my children."
Yuan Mejšia lives in the village of Linbiân, Szechuan Province, southern China.
She cultivates cockroaches not because of a strange fad, but because it sells them to pharmaceutical companies that use them to make medications.
"I'm sorry when I have to break up with them. They're all my children, my babies.
I lit up watching cockroaches after I saw on TV doing this in the city of Anhuj, "Chinese says.
"Then I learned that cockroaches can be used not only for food because they are rich in protein, but also for the preparation of medicines.
So I bought a few tens of thousands and started to breed them. "
Yuan started in the business of starting Capital 10 thousand. Yuan (approx. 1600 U.S. dollars).
With this money, she buys 20 kilograms of live cockroaches that she starts growing in her house.
