Little girl with cockroaches as pets

Little girl with cockroaches as pets

Some adopt dogs and these become part of the family. Others find their soulmate in cats. The most risky people have as pets snakes or mice. But none is as reckless as the little eight-year-old girl who has received with love a few creatures that many abhor.

Shelby Counterman An eight-year-old girl, a resident of Tulsa Oklahoma, has thousands of cockroaches as pets. In December of 2016, the TLC television channel presented a special program in which they released the unusual choice of Shelby's mascot.

Account that started with a small group of giant Madagascar male cockroaches. But I wanted him to reproduce so he added females. This caused the cockroaches to reproduce exponentially, so now the Shelby collection has grown and has thousands of these creatures.

Shelby keeps his precious pets in special plastic containers to keep them from scattering around the house. It also maintains beetles that eat debris to clean the containers of dead insects and this does not cause a bad smell.

She loves her pets so much that when she found out that a local reporter hated her, she invited her to beat her fears. Shelby's dream is that people know that cockroaches are harmless and do not fear them.

Types of cockroaches suitable for use in pets

Types of cockroaches suitable for use in pets

cockroaches as pets

Hissing cockroaches are a suitable pet

The hissing cockroaches are good pets and their search in the US is increasing, announced the Associated Press.

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cockroaches as pets

These insects are between 5 and 7.6 email cm long and their name derives from the characteristic hissing when they are disturbed.

They quickly lose this 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 care 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 share the roaches 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 appearance, 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

Hissing Cockroaches are good pets

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.