Hissing Cockroach Birth - Pt. 1

Madagascan hissing cockroach giving birth. Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH0WiVDw4es
This video was featured on Animal Planet's Weird, True & Freaky. I am not partial to how the show portrays them to be horrifying, "sci-fi" monsters, and they didn't even talk about the part where she squirts out "cockroach milk" to feed her babies after they're born, which is probably the "freakiest" part to most people :P Ah well. It's sad that most people can't enjoy and celebrate these animals without thinking of them as horrifying, monstrous creatures. I understand it's unusual and "gross" as any birth is... but I get so sick of the blatant hate and constant actual threats from people just for loving these animals.

Also I feel the need to note: Don't bother leaving rude comments. They will not be approved (unless I find your comment SO ignorant that I think everyone should see it), and you will be blocked. Cockroaches are VERY helpful to the ecosystem. There are around 6,000 different species of cockroach, and only NINE are known pests to humans. The rest prefer to live in the soil, where the eat decaying matter, serve as food to many mammals and other invertebrates, and some species are even pollinators. The Asian cockroach, Blattella asahinai, is a predator of boll worm larvae, which destroy crops. They also eat the eggs of the beet armyworm - a pest to cotton, cabbage and a variety of other crops. Farmers release these roaches into their crops for this purpose. Termites are, in fact, cockroaches, and they are enormously important to the health of forests. It is also said that cockroaches eat bedbugs. Think about all that before you prove yourself to be ignorant by saying they have no use in the world.

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[Svensonfunkleton]

Haha wow. It looks like you have a real nice set up for those guys. Do you breed them as food for anything or just because they're interesting in their own right?

[PenanggalanMonster]

@Svensonfunkleton Just pets :) I don't really have any pets that can eat them; their exoskeleton is too tough for most smaller reptiles/tarantulas.

[Hypastpist]

what did you do to it after it birthed all of em?

[PenanggalanMonster]

@Hypastpist Kept them along with the other 50+ I had.

[ShaktiLIfe]

I am scared and repulsed by cockroaches, but I know you are right. If we could wrap our brains around insects being excellent eco-friendly comestibles we would be doing a lot less damage on this planet. This means we need people like you to be around....

[PenanggalanMonster]

@ShaktiLIfe Thank you so much... it's nice to hear this in between all the "kill it with fire" and "you're a disgusting person" comments (of which I'm not approving).

[PenanggalanMonster]

@86zeruel I say this far more often about mankind than a harmless insect.

[velocity896]

Still a better love story than twilight

[jtismyname]

this is so beautiful

[eytank97]

EWWWWWWWWW THATS GROSS!@$%&

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*clicks replay*

[FightForTheArts]

I held a hissing cockroach once. It was cool. Then it started hissing and i dropped it and i was like "ohgodsorry!!!" to the guy and he was like, Oh its fine. Haha.

[Tummyboxx]

BABIES!!!! 

[AnimeStoryHour]

And I thought human births looked painful. So many babies at once D:

[DarkHypernova]

This is actually quite beautifull.

[xXxDoDDeRZxXxz]

DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!