Oooh, cool roach!! I think you're right about it being a Giant Cave cockroach. I have a couple of subadults of the species and I just can't wait for them to get to that size
Sigh,.. a two person shack in the middle of the rainforest surrounded by large insects and other wildlife is my idea of entomological heaven,.. and where am I? Cold rainy Aberdeen, that's where! Barely a woodlouse in sight!

My Invertebrate Collection0.1.0 Acanthogonatus sp. 'green'0.0.1 Avicularia sp. Peru Purple2.2.0 Blaberus giganteus0.1.0 Brachypelma smithi0.0.2 Cyriopagopus sp. 'Singapore blue'
0.0.1 Euathlus sp. 'blue'
0.1.0 Euathlus sp. 'red' 0.1.0 Haplopelma lividum 0.1.145 Hierodula membranacea0.0.1 Pamphobeteus sp. Ecuador II
1.1.0 Peruphasma schultei0.1.0 Pterinochilus murinus0.1.0 Sericopelma rubronitensDubia colony

We sat down to dinner one night and i looked down and saw this huge ant like insect about an 1 1/2 inches long looking up at me from the floor. It had huge mandibles which were opening and closing. I tried to coax it onto a piece of serviette to take it outside when a young waitress came to the table and looked down at what i was doing..."WHAARGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!" she screamed, in spanish, and stamped on it then ran away... soo, even the locals were affraid.

The funniest time was when we went snake hunting at night and we found a fur de lance snake.Its said that if bitten by one, you would have 18 minutes to get to a hospital before you died. Well we were about a days drive away...Anyway that day i'd hurt my foot and was on crutches, so i was limping quite badly, anyway one of these snakes, a 5 footer slowly crawled onto the path about 6 or 7 feet in front of us. It stopped right in the middle of the path then suddenly it threw itself sideways at us, a group of 12 screaming british tourists ran off into the dark and i overtook em all got all this on vid so ill post it sometime ..

Lol sounds like a fun day out! I'd love to go on a holiday somewhere that was a rain forest like the amazon!

CURRENT:

0.0.1 P. Paradoxa (ghost mantids)
1.0.0 Miomantis sp
0.0.1 P. Wahlbergii (Spiny flower)
1.2.0 O. Zebrata ( Zebra mantis)

andie i would love to see that lol

Come on then..

You're the hip-hop equivalent of Jim Davidson mate.....

Ok, yer it tis,,

i had to edit out the actual bit where we all ran as there were some choice words being shouted out ( and not just by me ) the bit at the end is when we regrouped. You just got to think that we were all fixated on this snake and as i said it suddlenly lunged sidewards at us, and adrenaline took over lol, well that was my excuse...oh and i wasnt ready to die yet either



now im gonna tell myself off,,,,

Ya big girl Andie

It was some Blaberus species

Big girl indeed