Allie Ward

They sound like a Windex bottle or a can of duster on its last laugh.

Although the more you handle them trying to get them to hiss, the less scared they are and the more over it they become.

So you've gone from like a predator to a dance mom and they're not having it.

Now, what are some other roaches you can cuddle with?

Tortellini Hot wrote in and said, I have several Madagascar hissing cockroaches.

One of them, Potatoes, has a white, wormy, alien blob coming out of his butt.

None of the entomologists I work with.

know what's going on, but he seems to be fine.

Do you have any guesses?

And I'm not an entomologist, nor am I a female cockroach, but based on some things I've seen online, he may just have a boner.

Like you may be staring down the barrel of his titillator.

Now, Teacher, Thorpasaurus, Jess, and Hope also asked about good ambassador species.

Do you think that holding a Madagascar cockroach would be good exposure therapy?

Rhi asked why they're so calm compared to ones that run a little faster.

But I feel like a Madagascar hissing roach is a good ambassador species for some.

Kind of like snakes and spiders.

Same things.

We see what's modeled.

So not only do we have an episode on creepy crawlies called Forest Entomology, but we also just released an episode on what makes things creepy.

And a big part of it is unpredictability.