Madagascar hissing cockroaches as pets and their content at home

Madagascar hissing cockroaches as pets and their content at home

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Gromphadorrhina portentous- Madagascar spitting cockroaches

Along with the Mexican naked dogs, the cats, with sphinxes and Vietnamese pigs folk Madagascar cockroach with confidence won the title and also extravagant, but many of the original favorite animal. It can hardly be called sweet friend or very sympathetic (even the term "four-legged" is not suitable for this!), but many of the characteristics of biology and a very original look makes it appealing to pet enthusiasts Exotic.

In addition, Madagascar cockroaches as pets are very convenient in content: Do not ruin the apartment and emit no odors, harmless and easy, and in most cases do not make it visible to guests.

However, some requirements for the Hiss content of the Madagascar cockroach still does. Therefore, for the successful breeding of these insects in the house, even before buying them, you should be well acquainted with the peculiarities of their biology and take into account the hardened Tarakanovodov experience.

The appearance of cockroaches and photos

Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches – it's not a type, like a species of cockroaches that live exclusively on Madagascar and other countries around the world, is found only in terrarium lovers or random banana boxes.

Total Science note 20 species of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, the state of some of these systematic still disputes are long.

One feature of the Madagascar cockroaches as pets is their lack of wings in all stages of development. The vast majority of the other cockroaches are devoid of wings only individuals larvae and adults (Imago) have wings, and some also fly very well. In Madagascar the originals sometimes difficult to distinguish from nymph old adult insect.

Madagascar cockroaches hiss have a very characteristic look: a very powerful chitin dish on the cephalothorax, wide and quite thick belly. But the main feature is their size-adults of some species can reach a length of 9 cm! In the picture, you can easily estimate the size of a cockroach compared to the human hand:

Belly painting of these insects varies from light brown to almost black. As a general rule, their dark nymphs and adults have little physical tightness. In the top photo nymphs presented early on the ground-a larva in the advanced age:

Maggots(nimfa) Cafard Malagasi (early age)

Grown maggots

With this decoration Madagascar adult cockroach are particular prominence on the top of her breast carapace. These "horns" have only adult males, and it is thanks to them that some species are well distinguished males from females.

In the picture above-the male, from the lower-female species Gromphadorhina portentous-the most popular Madagascar cockroach:

Those types of Madagascar cockroaches where males do not have prominence on the back, sexual dimorphism is less clear. However, you distinguish males from females can be for other reasons:

• As the mustache-the males are almost always broken and crooked, as the insects are actively using in the fight for the feminine. The females, however, Vine and flat whole. Photography clearly visible differences between the sexes; Male is a female of Madagascar cockroach The last two segments of the belly: the females are both black, the black male, only the last. And in general, at the abdominal female level is slightly wider. In the picture is clearly visible.

• Distinguish nymphs plants visually impossible. Same nymphs are very similar to adult insects, but their golovogrudny shield is not as well-developed as that of their parents.