Zeus & Hercules - Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

For Winter semester 2011, Ali, Hannah, Lene, and Misty entertained pet cockroaches. Madagascar hissing cockroaches to be exact. Zeus (the biggest) and Hercules. We kept them for one week each on rotation; fed them, and observed them. Once in a while we would do small experiments with them, and record their behavior. This was all for our Life Science Project in Dr. Cantrell's class, and a very interesting project it was indeed. Have fun reading about our experience.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

February 26

Not much of anything new going on. Zeus and Hercules spend most of their time happily hanging out in the toilet paper tube. I cleaned out their food dish yesterday and moved them closer to the window which made them even more shy. They definitely do not like the light. I may try giving them some apple tomorrow...

Friday, February 25, 2011

vampires?

i forgot to report that when i put the cage by the window, both of the roaches was in the tube, and the one that was facing the window turned around immediately. and really quickly. i have never seen any of them move so fast. so clearly, they do not like the light. and quite possibly, they could be vampiric.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Burrowing

Looking online, there is a giant burrowing cockroach, but nothing about cockroaches burrowing in general. I also did not put another tube in, and the two of them seem to have calmed down. Tomorrow they get to go home to Misty!!