Well all that trust gone out the window...

[Andee]

I've wondered if roaches could bite? Nothing has bit me yet

I think roaches can bite, they just generally choose not to. I don't think they would automatically turn to attacking as defense mechanism, and our guys are pretty used to us in their colonies all their time so they don't view us as really bad threats, though we often startle them. I have never been bit by one, but I think they could if they really wanted to. And I assume the larger species could really hurt.

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As far as Leif goes, don't worry, just step back a bit, let him settle some more and then get back to gaining that trust. Then slowly work on changing his cage a teeny tiny bit at a time, just so he doesn't freak so bad next time since he seems to be sensitive.

 

[jamest0o0]

Yeah I guess if they can chew up carrots and stuff they could potentially bite like you said, but I've never seen it either.

Don't mean to go way off topic, but after you get past the stigma of them being roaches(I used to be disgusted and terrified), they're pretty fascinating. Their intelligence for insects is pretty impressive and are entertaining. My orange heads are almost completely unbothered by me other than when I startle them. I could hold out food and they'd eat from my hands lol. Quite the image

 

[eahoormann]

Haha funny stuff here. @Vicar Laurence I know what you're talking about! They're like velcro and pull half of my enclosure apart when they decide to superglue themselves to something.

So to add to all of this, one bug that is terribly underrated in it's terror is the BSFL... I thought they were harmless until one day I left them in a cup with a big hornworm for my cham to eat. Came back and they were burrowed into the hornworms eating it from inside out... sorry for the nightmare.

On another note butterworms are the chillest to deal with other than them being ugly orange things.

Why...? Why do you say these things!? That's horrifying!!! My skin is now crawling and i'm psychically twitching.

 

[nightanole]

Why...? Why do you say these things!? That's horrifying!!! My skin is now crawling and i'm psychically twitching.

How about the fact if you under feed your hornworms, you end up with just one big hornworm

 

[Andee]

Insects are survivors, it's one of their most amazing qualities and how they have adpated so well to so many different places.

 

[eahoormann]

How about the fact if you under feed your hornworms, you end up with just one big hornworm

What the actual...?! What is wrong with you people! NIGHTMARES I TELL YA!! >.<

 

[JacksJill]

What the actual...?! What is wrong with you people! NIGHTMARES I TELL YA!! >.<

I'm guessing you've never seen the creepie crawly that superworms turn into before they become beetles yet.

 

[eahoormann]

I'm guessing you've never seen the creepie crawly that superworms turn into before they become beetles yet.

NO! I avoid bugs at all cost... and then willingly bough a cham and brought it into my home.. wtf, Lizz?!