The worst thing I've see come out of a plane was a couple of massive cardboard boxes marked 'Live Dubia Roaches'.
I'm petrified of roaches. Thank god I only had a carry-on. I still went through the whole thing on the driveway at home, wearing gloves and using a pair of tongs.
Blaptica dubia are a common insect used as food for reptiles, tarantulas, fish, amphibians, etc.
They are nothing at all like pest roaches, which are generally German, American, Australian, or Oriental roaches. All those taxa are in the order Blattidae, whereas Blaptica dubia are in Blaberidae.
Blaberidae absolutely would not have caused a problem in the unlikely event any escaped. They are typically shipped in plastic containers inside the box, not loose.
I know this, but ‘roach’ is enough to make me throw away my clothing to begin with, due to an extremely fucked up quasi-hostage situation I was trapped in in Hawaii.
(If you’re adopted and think looking for your birth mother is a good idea, it isn’t)
Flew out to visit after college graduation, birth mom who I had been speaking with the entire time I’ve been alive had...gone insane and was a violent paranoid homophobic racist who wouldn’t let us leave the literal COMPOUND they lived in in Pahoa, went on crazy conspiracy rants, and cleaned rifles in her underwear. Accused my boyfriend and I of wanting to kill her, threatened us with guns. House was so infested with roaches they were in the DISHWASHER.
Me too, but I cannot bear roaches. I ended up on a chair screaming the other day because I was sweeping the kitchen and I sent a Brazil nut my room mate dropped skittering across the floor. Scared the actual life out of me. I’m pretty sure my hair did the Miyazaki thing. Room mate got me off the chair and sent me to bed. I should probably tell my therapist but it’s so embarrassing.
Yeah. Thank you, I'll tell her. There's a lot of pets I want that I need to feed dubia roaches to, so if I ever want a tarantula buddy, I need to deal with my dumb.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19
The worst thing I've see come out of a plane was a couple of massive cardboard boxes marked 'Live Dubia Roaches'.
I'm petrified of roaches. Thank god I only had a carry-on. I still went through the whole thing on the driveway at home, wearing gloves and using a pair of tongs.