Nick Baker's Weird Creatures (Hissing Madagascar Cockroaches) at the Manchester Pet Show, where EventCity hosted the North West's first ever insect pet show. The inaugural two-day event included scales, pet displays, brown, pest, beetle, roach, disgust, head, wildlife, macro, bug, exotic, biology, crawling insects, closeup, creature, animal educational, and an impressive theatre with an action-packed schedule featuring stars of TV’s Animal Planet.
Nicholas Rowan Baker (born 22 April 1972) is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children's BBC's The Really Wild Show. He has recently finished filming Nick Baker's Weird Creatures. The Madagascar hissing cockroach, also known as the hissing cockroach or simply hisser, is one of the largest species of cockroach, reaching 2 to 3 inches at maturity. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is a large, wingless cockroach from Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa. Little is known about its ecology, but this insect probably lives on the forest floor in rotten logs and feeds on fallen fruit. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is a fascinating insect because of its unusual ability to produce sound. However, its unusual appearance and elaborate behavior also contribute to its appeal. The life cycle of the Madagascar hissing cockroach is long and differs some from most other cockroaches. Females are ovoviparous, that is, they give birth to live young. The female carries the egg and neonate nymphs for approximately 60 days until they emerge as first instar nymphs. One female can produce as many as 30-60 nymphs. This insect has an incomplete life cycle: egg, nymphs and adult stage. The nymphs undergo 6 molts before reaching maturity in 7 months. The nymphs and adults are wingless and can live for 2 to 5 years. There are striking differences between the sexes. Males possess large horns on the pronutum (behind the head), while females have only small 'bumps'. The presence or absence of the pronotal horns allows easy identification of the sexes. The antennae of males are hairy while the antennae of females are relatively smooth. Finally, the behavior of males and females also differ: only males are aggressive. The aggressive encounters between males are quite impressive. Males ram into each other with their horns and/or they push each other with their abdomens. Larger males usually win. Hissing plays an important role during male-male inter- actions.
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