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[Zephyr]

Actually, the roaches themselves don't creep me out a bit. They're cool looking bugs.
It's just what finding them in your home signifies that's the problem. Kind of like flies. They live on your garbage and other unmentionables, yet the insect itself is not a scary looking thing.
I'd love a couple of peppered roaches for pets, Kyle. Can you send them over the border, or is it like snakes? (My husband will kill me on the spot, but what the hell.)

I do know some people who have done it LEGALLY, so I could ask them and find things out.

[anji1971]

I do know some people who have done it LEGALLY, so I could ask them and find things out.

Yes, that would be the most appealing way to do it!! I'd be really upset to be in trouble with the law over a couple of bugs.

[Aundrea]

A roach can be cuddly? Do they bite?

[Zephyr]

A roach can be cuddly? Do they bite?

Yes.
They can be cuddly, especially if there's food around, but then again garters do the same. XD
And to stop any possible rumors...
ROACHES DO NOT AND WILL NOT BITE YOU.
They think the smell of human is repulsive. Go figure.
However, if you happened to soak your hand in strawberry juice for a half hour then left it (lol) in a colony of lobster roaches, I'm pretty sure you'd be missing plenty of skin after around 3 minutes.

[Aundrea]

WOW I think that is so weird that they dont like our smell LOL Thats kinda funny

I never thought a Roach could be cuddly LOL

Now why do the hissers hiss? Just for the hell of it? LOL

[Zephyr]

Now why do the hissers hiss? Just for the hell of it? LOL

YES.
GOOD QUESTIONS!!!
The primary use is defense; a predator is a lot less likely to grab onto to a throbbing spikey mass that's suddenly started hissing at them. They get really mad if you grab them wrong and males are the worse; they push air through modified spiracles, or air holes, on their sides and that makes the sound. Many other roaches can do it but hissers do about 10 times as often.
The second use is courtship. The male hisses to assert dominance over an area (While bumping and fighting with rival males using modified ridges on the head shield, or pronotum) and seduces the female with a gentler hissing. If they start doing the dirty deed and the male stops hissing, the females stop being receptive and that's the end of that.

[Aundrea]

WOW that is very interesting. Im learing LOL. I have never heard them hiss. Is it loud?

You should change your name from Zephyr to Mr Roach Man LOL