1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,520 Well, hello and welcome to InverteCast, the podcast where we intentionally talk about 2 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:24,880 bugs. I am Leah from Torrence Leah and of course you know my co-host Simon from the 3 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:35,480 Mantis Garden. Hello Simon. Hello chaps. Okay, so today our topic is cockroaches. So hopefully 4 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:43,120 we can dispel a few myths about them and maybe a little... they're one of the least 5 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:50,120 liked insect I think in the Inverte world. What do you think? Absolutely. Yeah, I think 6 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,120 we don't suffer with them over here like a lot of countries do because we're not a tropical 7 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:00,640 country, we're really intemperate. But I've heard down south that you can get them here 8 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,920 and there now and again but very rarely have them here. But as you know my wife's from 9 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,760 Africa and also Portugal and she's always complaining when she sees my cockroaches 10 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,680 she's like oh my god they're disgusting. So she hates them with a passion. To me they're 11 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,160 not something I've ever really seen in the wild. In fact I've never seen a wild cockroach 12 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:35,040 in the UK. Wow you're lucky. So I spent two years in Okinawa and cockroaches were massive 13 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:43,080 and they were everywhere. So yeah I've definitely seen my fair share of cockroaches. Also California 14 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:50,720 there's plenty of cockroaches. Florida they're all over the place. So I mean they're pretty 15 00:01:50,720 --> 00:02:01,240 common especially the pests. There are pest species that live here in the states and everything 16 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:06,920 so we're going to talk about it. We're going to get into it because there are more to cockroaches 17 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:14,360 than just you know getting into your food cabinets and all that stuff. So we'll get 18 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:20,720 into some interesting facts. Here in the states actually I believe it's like 30 something 19 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:27,920 percent of people actually develop allergies to cockroaches from their castings and whatnot 20 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:38,160 and especially the pest species. So that's an interesting thing there but they also like 21 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:45,200 they can leave kind of a bad odor and you know but these guys, cockroaches are actually 22 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:52,080 really really fascinating because of what they do kind of how they survive all that 23 00:02:52,080 --> 00:03:03,760 stuff so let's get into it. So cockroaches are actually in the order of Blatodea and 24 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:14,920 there are 4600 species worldwide. Most of them live in you know like tropical and kind 25 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:21,680 of warm moisture bound kind of areas in the wild. Mild climates but you can pretty much 26 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:29,120 find a cockroach anywhere. And so they are also among the most primitive living winged 27 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:39,040 insects. So they're the oldest recorded fossil I believe was 320 million years old so these 28 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:45,360 guys have predated us. They've predated pretty much almost anything on earth at this moment 29 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:56,040 except maybe crocodiles. You know what I mean? So the word cockroach is actually a corruption 30 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:04,160 of the Spanish word cucaracha. So there you go. Thanks, thanks. I just had to brilliant. 31 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:16,360 I've got that song in my head now. Like cucaracha. I mean you can hear it around here. They 32 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:21,400 dance they dance to it too. They put the sombrero down on the ground and then they dance around 33 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:30,160 the sombrero. Yeah it's good. It's fun times. So another species, other species that are 34 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:36,680 also in the bladidae order is termites. So the closest like relative to cockroaches is 35 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,560 going to be a termite which is really kind of interesting. I didn't know that so that 36 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:50,080 was a fun little fact for me. And so these guys they have compound eyes and they have 37 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:58,040 well developed sight so when you see a cockroach it sees you too. And so the cave dwelling 38 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,920 species are basically the only ones that don't have very good eyesight. And I know you said 39 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:08,800 you had some cave. Yes you carry on talking because you know for anybody who's watching 40 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,640 on YouTube I'll grapple now. You'll be able to see it. If we get yeah I mean I know they're 41 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:31,480 a little bit. So they typically have a flat oval shaped body and they're usually brown 42 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:39,160 or black in color but there are some species that are green and others that feature like 43 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:45,440 really distinct pretty markings. Oh yeah a little cave. Look at that. They're not little. 44 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,280 Trust me they're not little. Have you seen my hand there? No that's cool. They're quite 45 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:58,760 large. Yeah absolutely. So for everybody watching and everyone listening. That's a quick little 46 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:28,360 guy. Wow. Yeah he is. They're quick. I'm gonna put it back now because really. Yeah right. So the cave dwelling species are really cool. They actually rely really heavily on their antennae which is also how they smell and like here and they can feel vibrations through those antennae. So that's pretty interesting. So males have two pairs of wings and females don't have 47 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:54,840 wings at all or they have vestigial wings or useless wings essentially. All species have a mutualistic bacterium that lives within the insects fat cells and is thought to help regulate purine metabolism and helps them to survive in nitrogen rich environment or nitrogen rich environments or poor diets. 48 00:06:54,840 --> 00:07:19,840 And all cockroaches are active at night. So they're nocturnal. That's why you know if you're out scrounging in your kitchen in the middle of the night looking for some food and you happen to turn the light on and a bunch of cockroaches scatter that's why they prefer the dark. That sounds horrifying. Yeah right. I've seen it happen. It's yeah it's a thing. 49 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:43,840 I have seen what big roaches abroad. As you know I've worked in Asia and Southeast Asia. Right. I've at least and whatnot and I've seen like roaches but nothing to that extent where they're scattering on that you know. It's exciting for me if I see something like that. Oh yeah no I mean. 50 00:07:43,840 --> 00:08:11,840 I've seen them like that in California when I lived in California. I was in San Diego. Thankfully not in my home but again see you can hear the detest in my what I'm saying about cockroaches because they are I mean they do come with that stigma that they're you know dirty creatures and their own. 51 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:37,840 They carry diseases and stuff like that which is mostly true especially if the pest species that we consider pests like the I believe they're called the American brown cockroach. I have it in here I have it in my notes and so those guys they're they're you know seen as a pest and you know they're very famous insect. 52 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:53,840 That's one on our list. See what. That's one on our list. The ones we've got over here seems to be from you. Oh yeah I believe it. I believe it. For sure. The German cockroach that seems to be you know from somewhere else and not ours so to speak. 53 00:08:53,840 --> 00:09:16,840 Anyway sorry carry on. No you're good. I appreciate it. Okay so pest species often damage more than they consume more than they consume or like replace and they often emit a bad odor. Their diet includes both plant and animal products food paper clothing books dead insects and especially bed bugs. 54 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:31,840 So here we go. We're dispelling a quick little myth. I don't think that cockroaches are quite as detested as much as bed bugs are so if you do have a cockroach around guess what he wants to eat the bed bugs. 55 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:46,840 So there is a benefit to having cockroaches. But pest species are known to spread dysentery E. Coli Salmonella and other types of food poisoning like diseases. 56 00:09:46,840 --> 00:10:07,840 The vast majority of roaches are actually important members of their ecosystems. So the couple of pest species that you know most people think are around and whatnot like yeah okay their pests and whatnot and they do carry some diseases but they do also have some some serious benefits. 57 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:19,840 They play a key role in food webs and nutrient cycling. So many frogs lizards birds and small mammals rely on cockroaches as a food source. 58 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:41,840 So again everything has a purpose. Now I'll get into kind of the families of cockroaches. So we got the plata plata blada which contains pretty much most common household roaches like the American cockroach, which is the para plant a Americana. 59 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:54,840 They're actually native to Africa and the mid east, which is really interesting so they're not actually American at all. They were hitchhikers at one point and that's how they got here. 60 00:10:54,840 --> 00:11:15,840 And that's again that's something that is really really common with cockroaches. They are so incredibly resilient that you know they can survive for a long time just on a ship somewhere and you know and then they find themselves in a totally different climate but they're resilient. 61 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:28,840 They survive so there's a lot of like spiritual and symbolistic meaning behind that that they are resilient. They're durable. They prevail. 62 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:39,840 So if you know if you happen to be dreaming about a cockroach that's that's probably why is because it's telling you to be resilient to be persistent. 63 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:53,840 Continue, continue on move forward you know. Or you've just fed like 10 boxes of them. Yeah right. I sometimes do about cockroaches I think that's more likely the reason. 64 00:11:53,840 --> 00:12:04,840 Yeah, I believe it because they have like 11 species here. Oh wow. So yeah, I think it's definitely that's the reason why. 65 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:16,840 Yeah, I believe it. I mean they like I said they're they're very durable. You know they're survivors of the insect world. 66 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:30,840 So another cool fact about them is they did find that cockroaches actually and this is true for most species are they can withstand some exposure to radiation. 67 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:40,840 So not a ton but they can they can definitely like survive exposure to radiation number one. Yeah, they do not survive a nuclear bomb. 68 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:48,840 No, they won't survive that. They'll survive you know parts of the radius. 69 00:12:48,840 --> 00:13:01,840 The fallout radiation that can survive. Yeah, but yeah, the common myth is it the only thing that will survive if we have a nuclear war with the cockroaches and that's just rubbish. 70 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,840 Yeah, it's not entirely true. 71 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:13,840 But it's pretty interesting that they can survive radiation because I don't I don't think there are many other insects species that can. 72 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,840 So that's that's kind of a fascinating thing. 73 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:31,840 Okay, so then we've also got the Oriental cockroach and that's that's the one of it and I'm sorry for using Oriental I know that's really not the best word for that but 74 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:39,840 the scientific name for these guys is Blada orientalis, which is great because they're considered one of the most. 75 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:46,840 Yeah, that's right. So Oriental is I know right. I love the scientific words. 76 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:53,840 But they're considered one of the most notorious pests. So and I will say that this. Okay, so I have a funny story. 77 00:13:53,840 --> 00:14:01,840 While I was in Okinawa, I was up in the middle of the night. I think I was doing something in my closet. 78 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:12,840 Honestly, I think I was up very early in the morning getting ready for work and I was in my closet, you know, getting getting my camos and getting my boots and everything ready. 79 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:25,840 Right. And I was kind of crouched and then I leaned I leaned forward and then when I came back, there was something under my heel and I crushed it and I thought it was a grape. 80 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Well, when I turned the light on, it was a big ol' roach. So I legit stepped on a cockroach with my bare feet. 81 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:43,840 It was not the most fun experience. It was really kind of you. It was just you. 82 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:50,840 The explode don't they? Some roach that's so soft bodied when you grab them, especially grabbing with tongs or tweezers. 83 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:58,840 Yeah, explode out of the abdomen. It's disgusting. Yeah. And that's literally that's literally what happened. It was. 84 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:03,840 And then it fell off. Yeah, it was awful. 85 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:20,840 I've had I give them the mantis. I don't like pointing out you can't see if I've got mantis here next to me. I like I've given roaches before they've eaten the entire head and halfway down the body. 86 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:35,840 So these are like four legs left and they drop them by accident and it's run off. It's literally with no head and no no problem to the front of the body. 87 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:43,840 Yeah, and it's just running around in circles like back end of it just running around in circles, which obviously the captioning. 88 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Yeah, that's, you know, amazing. Now, you know, because of the physiology and the way that bodies design. 89 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,840 I think the insect body is designed better than the human body. 90 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:05,840 I think so too. Honestly, it really is. If you look deep into it, it really is. I mean, especially like the way the breeze, the oxygen to each organ. 91 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:13,840 It's a much more sensible organization of it. And that's probably why a lot of them haven't changed. 92 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,840 Yeah, I think so too. We are evolving. We have changing. 93 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,840 They haven't changed. Like not much. They haven't changed. 94 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:30,840 Yeah, so many years like 300 million years is still the same thing. Yeah, they think, hey, I'm perfect. 95 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:37,840 Well, they're efficient. I mean, their bodies work exactly how they're supposed to. 96 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:43,840 They do exactly what they're meant to do and why change it if it's not broken, right? 97 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:50,840 Yeah, and you know, they can't get because of the way the body works. 98 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,840 Yeah. 99 00:16:51,840 --> 00:17:01,840 We're susceptible to so many other things disease, bacteria, and all sorts of things because of the way our body works. So I want to come back as an insect. 100 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,840 Yeah. 101 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:04,840 Cool. 102 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,840 That looks a long time though. Not one of them. 103 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:08,840 Yeah, right. 104 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,840 Not a mayfly or anything. 105 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:26,840 Okay, so the next family that I have on my list here is the Bidobide, which is the German cockroach or the one that we consider a pest cockroach here in the States. 106 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:33,840 And obviously they're in the UK as well. They are the platilla Germanica. 107 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:42,840 These scientific words, sorry. They're often carried into homes in like grocery bags or boxes. 108 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:52,840 So yeah, again, that hitchhiker aspect of them. We also have the brown banded cockroach or the cepillum longi palpa. 109 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:58,840 And they resemble the German cockroach quite a bit, but they are a little bit smaller. 110 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,840 So there's that. And then so now I'm going to get into the giant cockroaches. 111 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:13,840 So the Blairidae, yeah, giant cockroaches. They're a large family of large cockroaches. 112 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:23,840 The most famous is the Madagascar hissing cockroach, which is the gramphodomide portentosa. 113 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:34,840 And I have, I actually have, let me see here. Hopefully I don't like perturb it too much, but I have little hissing cockroaches right here to show everybody. 114 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,840 Oh, you got one. 115 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:42,840 Yay. Don't hiss at me yet. I want you to hiss on. 116 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Oh, did you hear that? 117 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,840 Okay. 118 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:52,840 Okay, I want them to hiss on the microphone. Oh, goodness. 119 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,840 Okay. Can you hear that? 120 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Yeah. 121 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,840 There it is. 122 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:13,840 So that is this guy. This guy right here. This is a male. And you can tell that he's a male because he has these two little horn looking deals on the top of his head. 123 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,840 So, but this is a Madagascar hissing cockroach. 124 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:30,840 This is beautiful. And the hissing noise that they make is actually produced by their antenna by their, by these little deals right here, which is really interesting. 125 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:41,840 So they're not actually, or like they, as far as I know, it's, it's like a, it's a, they push air through something and then it vibrates and it makes that noise. 126 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,840 So there's a little Madagascar hissing cockroach for you. 127 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Don't fall, buddy. I'm holding you. 128 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,840 Yeah. 129 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:51,840 As a female. 130 00:19:51,840 --> 00:20:02,840 Yeah, there you go. And the females have a flat, have a more flat rounded kind of head. But as you can see, these guys, they definitely fit, you know, fit the description of what a cockroach looks like. 131 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:09,840 They have that round oval body. They're flat, you know, they're compact, little tiny eyes. 132 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:20,840 And they have six legs. These guys have really like kind of thorny hairy legs, which I actually really like about them. I think they're really kind of cute. 133 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,840 I know it sounds weird. 134 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,840 The cave roach. 135 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,840 No, I don't have any cave roaches. But you can see his little head. 136 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:29,840 Right here. 137 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,840 The cave roach earlier actually cut me. 138 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:33,840 What? 139 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,840 With its, with its, the spines on its legs, it cut me on the, the, 140 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,840 Yeah. And I think they already swelled up there. 141 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,840 Oh my goodness, you poor thing. 142 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,840 It's a saying like, be careful if you pick up the cave. 143 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,840 They do have sharp back legs that got really like hooks on. 144 00:20:53,840 --> 00:21:01,840 So, and that, well, and that helps them climb around things, doesn't it? It helps them to like really grip their surroundings really. 145 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:08,840 It's so grippy. It's so grippy. It's okay, but a couple of them just run off, but they're okay. 146 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,840 But because I held it in the middle, it kicked. 147 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:19,840 So, you know, so be careful. Don't grab them. Just let them call until you're like most after a pot actually. 148 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,840 Yeah, absolutely. 149 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,840 That was my own fault. So I can't go into the road. 150 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,840 Let's see. Yeah, never blame the roach. I never blame. 151 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:34,840 So I've got a couple of them here. Check them out. They're just kind of chilling, chilling on the car ground here. 152 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,840 They're really cute. Let me see. I can probably make them. 153 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,840 Yep. 154 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:48,840 That's not fair. You can hear yours better than mine. I have my microphone and I just stroked it and it was hissing. 155 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,840 I couldn't hear it. So. 156 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:56,840 I don't like to do it to them too much because after a while they, they lose their hissing ability. 157 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,840 I mean, they regain it of course in time, but like they're only good for a couple of hisses. 158 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,840 So. 159 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:09,840 I think just, you see it. I don't think you're just annoying. 160 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,840 Yeah, right. You probably are. It's just an annoyance to them, you know. 161 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:24,840 But these guys, you know, and I found with, with, especially with the hissing cockroaches and like most of other species that aren't like household pests. 162 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,840 They're actually really clean animals. They're not gross at all. 163 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Like, you know, they're harmless mostly. Like they, they really don't bite or anything. 164 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:41,840 It's, it's, you know, they're, they're not horrible creatures. They're really kind of cool. 165 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:46,840 There is one, there is one that is nasty and it does bite. 166 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:47,840 Ooh. 167 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,840 Which is the lobster roach. 168 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,840 Lobster roach. 169 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,840 Oh man. 170 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,840 I missed that one in my research. How sad. 171 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,840 Well, one sec. 172 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,840 Oh sweet. I think Simon has a cool lobster roach to show us. And so I'm excited. 173 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,840 I have a fairly, no, quite small. 174 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,840 Really? 175 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,840 So you. 176 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:19,840 How funny. I thought, you know, when you said lobster roach, I thought it was going to be large. 177 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,840 For everybody listening. 178 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,840 But I mean, it's a, it's a female. So this is actually small. 179 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,840 I should suppose when I grab. 180 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,840 Yeah. It's only about a, what, like an inch. 181 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Now, if you give this to a mantis or a tarantula, there's a good chance it'll bite back. 182 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,840 Wow. 183 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,840 In a really bad way. So I, I try to avoid using these. 184 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Yeah. 185 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,840 Rectile feeders, I would say. 186 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,840 Not recommended for feeders. 187 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,840 Evil. 188 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,840 They are evil. Okay. 189 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,840 And I've got about a thousand of them in this box next to me. 190 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,840 So nice. 191 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:08,840 But as you can see, I mean my hand that I had the roach in, like it's clean. 192 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,840 So, you know, there's no grossness from these guys. 193 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,840 And I really like keeping hissing roaches as pets. 194 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,840 I want to get some of those cute, those really pretty emerald. 195 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,840 There's some emerald roaches that are really pretty and domino roaches. 196 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,840 Okay. So we'll get into that. 197 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:32,840 So, so as I said, the most famous of the giant cockroaches is the Madagascar hissing cockroach. 198 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:41,840 But they reach, you know, two to three inches long, which obviously you guys could see that for those who were listening couldn't really see that. 199 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:54,840 But yeah, they're quite a large species and they have a kind of a pretty, like they go from black to like brown and then they lighten up all the way down their body until they're like an orange color. 200 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,840 And they're kind of cool. 201 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:57,840 I think they're really cool. 202 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:04,840 And then you got the emerald cockroach, which is the Cordybarum Magnifica. 203 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:12,840 And then we've got giant burrowing roaches, the Macropanacea rhinoceros. 204 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,840 Ooh, what's that one? 205 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,840 That's a domino. 206 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,840 Ah, cool. 207 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,840 Yes, domino roaches. 208 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:25,840 So if you guys can't see, Simon is holding up a little domino cockroach. 209 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:33,840 And these guys are really cool because they're round and they are mostly black, but then they've got little white markings on their outer shell. 210 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,840 That look like dominoes. 211 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:43,840 They're quite fast when they want to be, but they'll generally sit in your hands like that one. 212 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:44,840 Sure. 213 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,840 They're pretty docile. 214 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:47,840 That's cool. 215 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,840 They're a bit of a strange one as far as roaches are concerned. 216 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,840 Keeping them. 217 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,840 Yeah, they're really interesting. 218 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,840 Most people do like to keep them as pets. 219 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,840 I wouldn't feed them. 220 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,840 They're too cute. 221 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:04,840 Yeah. 222 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:10,840 There's only lobsters and red runners that I feed to the mantis because the rest of them are too cute. 223 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,840 Right. 224 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Yeah. 225 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,840 So the giant burrowing roach is actually from Australia. 226 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,840 And it's one of the heaviest species on Earth. 227 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:25,840 It weighs about 30 grams. 228 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,840 So an ounce. 229 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:35,840 Which doesn't sound like a lot to us, but when it comes to the insect world, one ounce, that's pretty heavy. 230 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:43,840 And of course, it's Australia, so everything is bigger and scarier and more venomous. 231 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,840 Well, as a comparison, can you see this? 232 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,840 Oh, and he can't, can you? 233 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,840 Oh, hey, there he is. 234 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,840 That's quite a big mantis. 235 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:54,840 Yeah. 236 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,840 And that weighs approximately one gram. 237 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:00,840 Wow. 238 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,840 So, you know, can imagine how big your cockroach is at 30 grams. 239 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Right. 240 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,840 Yeah. 241 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:09,840 One. 242 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,840 Yeah. 243 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:11,840 That's amazing. 244 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:12,840 Okay. 245 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:22,840 So now we have a 40 genera of sand cockroaches, which is the Corrididae family. 246 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:29,840 They are, if you've ever seen the question mark cockroach, they belong in this family. 247 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:34,840 So, they're Oleg Reydani. 248 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,840 Sorry, I am butchering these words. 249 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,840 The Domino Roach that we just saw, they are also part of this family. 250 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,840 They live in the sand. 251 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,840 So I'm believing, I believe these are desert dwelling roachers. 252 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,840 So these guys you will find in the deserts throughout the world. 253 00:27:53,840 --> 00:28:08,840 One that is really interesting that I was really happy to find was there's a, it's specifically called the desert cockroach or the archivega in Vestigada. 254 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,840 And they live in the Colorado sand dunes in Southern California. 255 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,840 So these guys are only found in the sand dunes of Colorado. 256 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:34,840 And if you, so if you know anything about Colorado, we have a very kind of tight little pocket of sand dunes that is right on the other side of the Monte Cristo mountains or like the San Jose Valley. 257 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:46,840 And they are, it's really interesting because when you think of Colorado, everybody thinks of big tall mountains and, you know, winter and snow and evergreen trees and everything like that. 258 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:53,840 But yeah, we do have sand dunes and we also have the tallest sand dune in the entire nation right here in Colorado. 259 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:00,840 So it's no wonder that there are desert cockroaches that live in those sand dunes and they're native. 260 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:01,840 And that's that. 261 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,840 I thought that was just a really cool, really cool little topic there because I'm from Colorado. 262 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,840 What do you got Simon? 263 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,840 What do you got? 264 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:16,840 I believe it's in the same family. I'm not going to swear to it, right? I believe it's in the same family as the question mark roach. 265 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:17,840 Cool. 266 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:25,840 If you'll stay still, these are an extremely pretty roach. This is a headlight roach. 267 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,840 Oh, a headlight roach. 268 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:36,840 Very, very pretty. Yellow and black stripes and you've got the orange, orange stuff there. 269 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,840 Oh, yeah. Okay. They are pretty. 270 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,840 They really are pretty. 271 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:49,840 I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to get him in camera because he's a bit quick. 272 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,840 Yeah, he's just running. 273 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,840 Look at that. 274 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,840 How cool. 275 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,840 He stopped. There you go. 276 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,840 Yeah. 277 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,840 Trying to get him closer. 278 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,840 Yeah, looks great. Looks great. 279 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,840 He's hanging off of your hand. 280 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:14,840 So that's pretty awesome. So yeah, you got some sand cockroaches. 281 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:21,840 And then we also have the Crypto Percéde. 282 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:27,840 This is the group of cockroaches that is most closely related to termites. 283 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:37,840 They're like the brown-hooded roach is they eat wood, they digest wood and with the aid of certain protozoans in its digestive tract, 284 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:44,840 that's how it is able to eat the wood. Otherwise, they don't really eat wood. 285 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:53,840 And then you have the Nocticoleidae, which is about 25 species of the cave dwelling cockroaches. 286 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:59,840 So you've got the Jeralox Roach or Nocticoleidae gerolchi. 287 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:05,840 It's an endangered species native to say, Kellys in Central Africa. 288 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,840 And so it's pretty, pretty fascinating. 289 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:16,840 But yeah, there's a, I know there's a couple of cave dwelling species that are actually extinct in the wild. 290 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,840 And you can pretty much only find them in the pet trade and the pet hobby. 291 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:33,840 So sad times, but you know, they're, these guys, the cave dwelling species of roaches are highly adaptive, usually to one cave in specific. 292 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:40,840 So, you know, there could be other species of cave dwellers that we don't even realize. 293 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:49,840 But again, it just speaks to like the resilience and the durability of these cockroaches that could live pretty much anywhere on Earth. 294 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:58,840 Obviously, except for the Arctic's, like, you know, maybe not so much Canada or, you know, Norway and all that. 295 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,840 I don't know. 296 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:11,840 But I also found a really cool legend from India about, it's called the woman who killed a cockroach. 297 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,840 And it's, it's, it's a cool legend. 298 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:15,840 I like it. 299 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:25,840 It's, you know, so if, if you're down, I'm, it's, you know, when I first read it, it was kind of long, but it has a good, it has a good message. 300 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,840 So we'll, we'll go with that. 301 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,840 So there was a woman who lived a pure and holy life. 302 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:32,840 She woke up early every day. 303 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:44,840 She spent a couple of hours in the morning meditating in prayer and thought she really thought of herself as pure, gentle, humble and holy. 304 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:50,840 But she also saw herself as better than other people because of her pureness, right? 305 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:56,840 So one morning when, when it was still dark, she went to the bathroom and accidentally stepped on a cockroach. 306 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:05,840 She put her into a frenzy and a dilemma because she suddenly realized that she was responsible for a death. 307 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:11,840 And she couldn't meditate that morning because it was just, it had got to her so badly, right? 308 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,840 And then she tried to concentrate. 309 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,840 She tried to clear her mind. 310 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,840 She tried to chant, but she was just restless. 311 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:25,840 So she went back to the bathroom, picked up the cockroach, covered it with some paper and threw it out of her house. 312 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,840 And as she was doing that, she saw a woman who was sweeping the road. 313 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:34,840 The holy woman called to the sweeper, every day you commit so many sins. 314 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,840 You have, have you ever thought about this? 315 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:45,840 Because she's saying that she committed so many swims, sins because as she's sweeping, she's also sweeping other insects like ants and stuff like that. 316 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,840 So she's like killing all these insects, right? 317 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:55,840 And so the sweeping woman said, sister, I do not wish to kill these ants, but I cannot help it. 318 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,840 It is my job to sweep the road. 319 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,840 And in the process, many ants and insects die. 320 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,840 That's why I pray in my heart that my faults are, sorry. 321 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,840 Oh my gosh. 322 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:09,840 Okay. 323 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,840 So that's why I pray in my heart that my faults are as many as the drops of water in an ocean. 324 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:22,840 Have mercy, oh Lord, shower your grace and show this and save this drowning one. 325 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,840 And the holy woman said, well, you've committed so many sins and still you are not worried. 326 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,840 I have killed just one roach and I feel so miserable. 327 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:37,840 Then the sweeper says, well, you can give me the dead roach and I will bear this end of killing it. 328 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:46,840 So the holy woman agreed and put the roach in the garbage bin of the sweeping lady and then went back home lighthearted and happy. 329 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,840 And she felt great, right? 330 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:55,840 But both women, as you would have it, like as fate would have it, both women went to bed that night and died. 331 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:05,840 But the woman who thought she was pure and holy and, you know, better than everybody was actually taken to hell and the sweeper woman was taken to heaven. 332 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:10,840 So the holy woman was ego-centric and she protested, I am pure. 333 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,840 I committed no sin and, you know, prayed all the time. 334 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:24,840 I was constantly, you know, righteous, but because she was egotistical about it, because she did it because it gave her some sort of clout. 335 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,840 Or, you know, status. 336 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,840 She did it as a status symbol. 337 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:30,840 She went to hell. 338 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:40,840 Whereas the sweeping woman, because she was humble and she always kept it in her heart that I don't mean to do these things, but it's part of what I'm doing. 339 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:48,840 She always kept it in her heart and always she accepted the fact that she was going to sin in some capacity. 340 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:54,840 And so she trusted and had faith in the grace of God that she would be forgiven. 341 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,840 And that's why she went to heaven. 342 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:03,840 So essentially the lesson is that there is no greater gift than the grace of God and his mercy. 343 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,840 So the sweeper was humble. 344 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,840 She prayed in her heart for God's forgiveness. 345 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,840 And yeah. 346 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:19,840 So the message is, you know, don't do the good, pure things just because it elevates, you know, you think that it elevates your status among other people. 347 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:25,840 Do those things because it's right within your heart to do them, if that makes sense. 348 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,840 So what you do the thing is stop posting on Instagram. 349 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:30,840 Right. 350 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,840 I did something great today. 351 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:33,840 Look at me. 352 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:34,840 I'm wondering. 353 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,840 Right. 354 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,840 Right, right. 355 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:40,840 There's so many of them on Facebook, on YouTube, on Instagram. 356 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:41,840 Yeah. 357 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:42,840 They're like, oh, look at me. 358 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:43,840 I'm brilliant. 359 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,840 And they're only doing them things to get attention. 360 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:46,840 Right. 361 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,840 And that's doing it because they love doing it. 362 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,840 I do this job because I love doing it not because I want to make money. 363 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,840 So I feel like I'm doing the right thing for the right reason. 364 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:58,840 Yeah. 365 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,840 You know, it's within your heart to do that. 366 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:03,840 And that's. 367 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,840 You could actually, you could actually rewrite that for modern day, I think. 368 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,840 I think so too. 369 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,840 Yeah. 370 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,840 So media rather than a cockroach, you know, a homeless man and a cockroach, you know, 371 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,840 you could, you could, that sounds horrible, didn't it? 372 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,840 It needs to change a homeless man and a cockroach. 373 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,840 Yes. 374 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,840 I hope nobody's misposed me on that one. 375 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:25,840 Yeah. 376 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:26,840 But you know what I'm saying? 377 00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:32,840 You could replace that and say, look, is this guy giving $50, whatever that is. 378 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,840 And video on it and put it on Facebook or YouTube. 379 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,840 That's the same, same premise, I think. 380 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:40,840 So yeah, I agree. 381 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,840 I mean, a lot of people see, you know, and I feel like I can relate this story really 382 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,840 well to cockroaches and kind of how their, their life cycle and what they do, you know, 383 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,840 because a lot of people, we see them as pests. 384 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,840 We see, you know, we, we detest them. 385 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,840 We hate them. 386 00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,840 We think that they're dirty and smelly and awful. 387 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,840 And, you know, a lot of people believe that if you find cockroaches in your house, it 388 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,840 means that you're not a good housekeeper, which is not actually very accurate because 389 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,840 if you find a cockroach in your house, it just means they're, they're, they're, they 390 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:21,840 found like, you know, other bugs, other dead bugs, or they found, you know, a food source, 391 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,840 some kind of food source. 392 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,840 So to be completely honest, like cockroaches absolutely serve a pretty big purpose in our 393 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:35,840 world, just like beetles, you know, a lot, a lot of beetles that are, are their composters. 394 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:41,840 So basically they eat the stuff that, that is just decaying and, and dead and doesn't 395 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,840 really have any use anyway. 396 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,840 And so they're eating that and then they're replenishing the soil as they do it. 397 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,840 And then they are also, you know, a food source for birds. 398 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:57,840 And, and as I said before, you know, small mammals and reptiles and stuff like that. 399 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,840 So they, they actually serve a pretty decent purpose. 400 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,840 So I want to, I want to just say out there, you know, for people out there, like, if you 401 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:12,840 see a cockroach, let it be, if you see it in your house, I mean, I understand like picking 402 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,840 it up and putting it outside, like that's one thing or whatever, but try not to kill 403 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,840 them because they actually are doing good things for you. 404 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,840 So, yeah, I don't know. 405 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,840 Do you know what does kill them? 406 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,840 What kill, what? 407 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,840 Peanut butter. 408 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,840 Peanut butter kills the cockroaches. 409 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:36,840 Yeah. 410 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,840 I didn't know that. 411 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:38,840 That's interesting. 412 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:39,840 Try it. 413 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:40,840 It does. 414 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,840 Yeah. 415 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:46,840 Well, if I find a little cockroach in the wild or something, I'll try it with some peanut 416 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,840 butter, but I'll feel bad about it because. 417 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,840 I, well, we can't feel bad about it personally. 418 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,840 I mean, look, it's been a service neither of us, our believers. 419 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,840 So we don't have to, you know, for the moral story. 420 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,840 So we don't feel bad about it. 421 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,840 And secondly, we both keep arthropods that eats cockroaches. 422 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,840 True. 423 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,840 We have to feed cockroaches to them every day. 424 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:13,840 It's true. 425 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,840 We are past feeling bad about killing a cockroach on a freight. 426 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:18,840 I agree. 427 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,840 I do, you know, I do on some level have a belief. 428 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:22,840 I believe in a higher power. 429 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:28,840 I don't think I believe, I don't really believe so much in like a God or a deity. 430 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,840 I believe that we are all connected into that higher power. 431 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,840 So we're all, you know, we're all a part of it, if you will. 432 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:41,840 I think that, you know, life, life is the higher power. 433 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,840 Does that make sense at all? 434 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:44,840 Yes. 435 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,840 Atoms doing their thing is well. 436 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:48,840 Yeah, exactly. 437 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,840 Like we're, you know, then you should be, you can't destroy an atom. 438 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,840 So whatever you're, we're made of. 439 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:55,840 Yeah. 440 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:56,840 We're gone. 441 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,840 It will go into something else anyway. 442 00:40:58,840 --> 00:40:59,840 Exactly. 443 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:00,840 It's all a cycle. 444 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,840 It's all a cycle. 445 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,840 I mean, even the universe and our solar system has its own cycle. 446 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,840 I mean, you don't even know, like if you, if you narrow down into like underneath 447 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:18,840 your big toenail, there could be an entire, you know, universe and world inside 448 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,840 your toenail that you have no idea even exists. 449 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:28,840 And yes, I am talking about microbiology, like the bacterium and stuff like that. 450 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,840 That's a whole, whole universe. 451 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,840 It's a whole system all on its own. 452 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,840 And you don't even realize that it exists. 453 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,840 So yeah, I mean, I just, I just believe that everything is connected. 454 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:46,840 And so I do feel guilty a little bit when I, when I kill a cockroach. 455 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,840 Now I know that feeding cockroaches and crickets to my tarantulas, that's just the nature of 456 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:52,840 things. 457 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,840 And that's, that's how it goes. 458 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,840 Like that's, you know, I got, I like my tarantulas. 459 00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:58,840 I love them. 460 00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,840 I want them to stay alive. 461 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:00,840 So I need to feed them. 462 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,840 It's part of caring about them. 463 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,840 But that's not to say that I don't also care about those crickets and that I don't also 464 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:12,840 care about the roaches and stuff that I am feeding because their life also has value. 465 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:19,840 So I keep all my roaches and all my feeders in bioactive stuff because I like to give 466 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:25,840 them the life they would have in the wild. 467 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:26,840 In the wild. 468 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:27,840 Yeah. 469 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:33,840 Rather than keeping them like in egg cartons and just feeding them on one thing, you know, 470 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:39,840 so I prefer to give them that and, you know, now and again, some of them are unlucky. 471 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:40,840 Sure. 472 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:41,840 Yeah. 473 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,840 In the wilds, now and again, some of them are unlucky. 474 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:46,840 I agree. 475 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,840 It's true. 476 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,840 It's spiders and snakes and, you know, frogs, birds. 477 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,840 That's what that's generally what they are there for. 478 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:56,840 Yeah. 479 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:57,840 They're just food. 480 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:58,840 Everything is food at some point. 481 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,840 Everybody is everybody's food. 482 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,840 That's, that's how it is. 483 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,840 Every, every creature is food for another creature somewhere, somewhere in the, you know what 484 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,840 I mean? 485 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,480 Bugs, bugs get eaten by birds and birds get eaten by snakes and snakes get eaten by leopards 486 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:22,840 and leopards don't, they get eaten when they die by the bugs and the birds by the bugs. 487 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,840 But see how it's a cycle. 488 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:30,840 So the leopard eats all the things and then when the leopard dies, all the things eat the 489 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,840 leopards. 490 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,840 So full circle. 491 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,840 A strange, a strange line there. 492 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:38,840 I really did. 493 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:39,840 I really did. 494 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:40,840 But you know what? 495 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:41,840 You keep laughing now. 496 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,840 You say, weird line you went down. 497 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,840 So it would have been easier if you started with fish. 498 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,840 You know, I did. 499 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,840 I skipped fish. 500 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,840 Let's pick that one. 501 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,840 That one's difficult. 502 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:55,840 Yeah. 503 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:56,840 Yeah. 504 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,840 No, I mean, it's a good, I feel like that legend has a good message though. 505 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,840 It's like just because it's a cockroach doesn't mean that you're better than it. 506 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,840 You know, yeah. 507 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,840 It's a moral scam. 508 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,840 It doesn't have to be religious. 509 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,840 It can be a moral dilemma. 510 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,840 Yeah, exactly. 511 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,840 Moral dilemma. 512 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,840 I agree. 513 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,840 Be a good person basically. 514 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:19,840 Right. 515 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,840 Don't be a good person for sure. 516 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,840 You know, yeah. 517 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,840 Don't think that you're better than somebody else just because you're doing the good things 518 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:28,840 or whatever. 519 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,840 It doesn't make you better. 520 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,840 That's a lesson I think a lot of people could learn. 521 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:46,840 Well, it, you know, it was interesting because that there was a few, there were a couple of myths and legends that I found involving cockroaches. 522 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:53,840 But the weirdest thing about it was that none of them actually had much to do with a cockroach. 523 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,840 There just happened to be a cockroach in the story. 524 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,840 So I picked this one because I felt that it was relevant. 525 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,840 Like I felt like it was the most relevant to a cockroach's life than the others. 526 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,840 The others were kind of odd. 527 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,840 And I honestly didn't really understand one of them. 528 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,840 I was just like, what on earth did I just read? 529 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,840 You know, so I didn't want that one, you know. 530 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:25,840 I have been there because obviously when I researched my books and whatnot, I always put yes. 531 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,840 I always put myths at the end. 532 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,840 The last chapter I always put some myths and legends. 533 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,840 I have gone through so many myths and legends of certain things. 534 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:42,840 I read them all and some of them just, I just think like, do I need to be in the 10th century to understand what this is talking about? 535 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,840 It's just fine. 536 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,840 That's what you think. 537 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:49,840 Push it aside. 538 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,840 It's absolute nonsense. 539 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,840 So yeah, I do understand what you mean. 540 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,840 I really, really, really, truly do. 541 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:03,840 I mean, I think that some stories just don't age well. 542 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,840 No, not at all. 543 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:18,840 Yeah, I can't understand why when you do see them, I see a lot of memes and like inspirational stuff on social media. 544 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:19,840 Yeah. 545 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:32,840 And as I've studied the past and other things, I can actually relate to them and look at them and say, OK, that was from the Mongols. 546 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,840 You know what I mean? 547 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:34,840 Or something like that. 548 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:35,840 Sure. 549 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:42,840 Chinese province from, oh, Chinese province from thousands of years ago or something. 550 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:47,840 And they've just dragged it up and give it a modern spin. 551 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:48,840 Right. 552 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,840 Otherwise, it just absolutely, it's just. 553 00:46:51,840 --> 00:47:00,840 But a lot of, I mean, a lot of them, I feel like a lot of some of the oldest teachings are really, they're very relevant even now. 554 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:08,840 Like a lot of a lot of the works in the Buddha and what the Buddha taught, you know, is it's still very relevant. 555 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,840 You know, I mean, I know if it, if you're not Buddhist, that's OK. 556 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:21,840 I'm just saying take a look at that book because there's a lot of really great wisdom in it that that definitely still is very relevant today. 557 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,840 And I, you know, I think that's that's really true for cockroaches, man. 558 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,840 They're they're resilient. 559 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,840 They're, you know, determined. 560 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:35,840 They will survive at at, you know, above all else they survive. 561 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:39,840 If you get over the fact that something is a cockroach. 562 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:40,840 Mm hmm. 563 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,840 Well, you're looking at it. 564 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,840 You can actually see which ones are pretty then. 565 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,840 I don't have to show you there with the headlight roach. 566 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:50,840 And you've got the question mark. 567 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:51,840 You've got the dominoes. 568 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,840 You've got the banana roach. 569 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:53,840 Yeah. 570 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:54,840 Or all the roaches. 571 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:59,840 But if you just pause for a second and put in your mind that they're not a roach, is the Beatles. 572 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:00,840 Yeah. 573 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,840 You'll find yourself saying that's pretty. 574 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:04,840 Yeah. 575 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:10,840 But soon you say to yourself, that's a cockroach, it's hopefully. 576 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:17,840 Yeah, I would be dropped into your head from being very small, but cockroaches are awful. 577 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:18,840 And that's all I agree. 578 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:25,840 I mean, I think even the word cockroach comes with kind of those negative connotations. 579 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,840 Like we just see it as something that's super negative. 580 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:33,840 I mean, I've heard people use cockroach as an insult to insult somebody else. 581 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,840 And I'm like, don't insult the cockroach. 582 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:36,840 What are you talking about? 583 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:37,840 Exactly. 584 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:38,840 Exactly. 585 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,840 And same thing with snakes. 586 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:47,840 Like, I've, you know, there's a lot of kind of idioms in English, you know, where you 587 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,840 might call somebody, oh, they're a snake. 588 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,840 And I'm like, well, don't insult the snake like that. 589 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,840 Because the snakes didn't do anything to deserve that bad, you know what I mean? 590 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,840 That bad reputation. 591 00:48:58,840 --> 00:48:59,840 That's not cool. 592 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,840 Snakes are doing us a favor. 593 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,840 They're taking care of the rodent populations. 594 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,840 And you know what I mean? 595 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,840 Like, what are you talking about a snake? 596 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:09,840 Get out of here. 597 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,840 But yeah, you know, we use cockroaches. 598 00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,840 Yeah. 599 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:14,840 Yeah. 600 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,840 The most useful. 601 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:17,840 I agree. 602 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:23,840 You know, the ones we don't like, like the snakes, the scorpions, you know, spiders. 603 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,840 Spiders get really bad rep anyway. 604 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:27,840 They always have to. 605 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:34,840 You know, your cockroaches, your isopods, they all do this wonderful job. 606 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:35,840 Yeah. 607 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:36,840 Pestering. 608 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:37,840 Right. 609 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:44,840 If it wasn't for them, you take it, you need to sit down in a chair, close your eyes and 610 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,840 imagine the world of what would happen really deeply if you take one of them out of the 611 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:50,840 equation. 612 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:51,840 Right. 613 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,840 And you can see for yourself what would happen. 614 00:49:55,840 --> 00:50:02,840 And think about everything, like all the leaves of Pylop, all the dead wood of Pylop, all the 615 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:07,840 dead insects and dead bodies of things with Pylop, which and then all of these things 616 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,840 that were created by those dead bodies. 617 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:10,840 Right. 618 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,840 And then that makes it all just some things. 619 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,840 I guess loads more than that. 620 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:21,840 But just some things would make a massive difference to how we live or even if we could live. 621 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:22,840 Yeah, absolutely. 622 00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:30,840 Just sitting back and thinking, I don't like cockroaches, but if I took them all away and 623 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:35,840 then you get it, it's the same with the, it's the mosquito dilemma. 624 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:36,840 Yeah. 625 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,840 Like if we eradicated the mosquito, people go, oh yeah, that's great thing. 626 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,840 No more malaria, no more texting, no more this, no more that. 627 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:44,840 Texty. 628 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:45,840 Never mind. 629 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:46,840 You know that. 630 00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:54,840 It would be terrible for a dragon flies and be bats because then they wouldn't have a food source so much anymore. 631 00:50:54,840 --> 00:51:05,840 Fish, tadpole, bats, birds, there's loads of things that eat mosquitoes and that would be an absolute disaster to the ecosystem if you took away mosquitoes. 632 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:06,840 Right. 633 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,840 It's something to not mess with. 634 00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:14,840 You know cure the disease by all means don't blame the messenger. 635 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:15,840 I agree. 636 00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:16,840 That's my view on it. 637 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:17,840 Don't blame the messenger. 638 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:18,840 Yeah. 639 00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,840 If something gives you some kind of disease, just cure the disease. 640 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:24,840 Yeah. 641 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:25,840 Yeah. 642 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:26,840 Absolutely. 643 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,840 Everything has a purpose. 644 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,840 Everything has a job. 645 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:33,840 Even we do. 646 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,840 I mean, people are weird. 647 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:37,840 To be honest. 648 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:44,840 Honestly, honestly, if you really sit back and think about what I just said a minute ago, I can't think what we do. 649 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:51,840 I can't think what use humans are to the planet and to the ecosystem and to the third chain. 650 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:53,840 I don't know what we bring to the table. 651 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:54,840 I really do not. 652 00:51:54,840 --> 00:52:02,840 I think we used to, but I think so much anymore. 653 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:03,840 I don't think we do. 654 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:13,840 I think before we helped control the populations of predators so that the predators don't predate too much on herbivores and all kinds of things. 655 00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:14,840 I don't agree with you. 656 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:29,840 When COVID came around and there was that huge shutdown all throughout the world, did you see the amount of pollution that just disappeared within that two weeks? 657 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:37,840 It only took two weeks or a month or whatever for us to stop driving around, stop leaving our houses, stop doing all those things. 658 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:45,840 And everything was like, oh, we're fixing. Yay. And then we come back out and everything's crap again. 659 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,840 We saw things in the garden that we'd never seen before. 660 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,840 I've lived in this particular area for 50 years. 661 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:58,840 I saw things in the garden during COVID that I'd never seen here. 662 00:52:58,840 --> 00:52:59,840 Wow. 663 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:08,840 I've actually been out in the countryside to see before. I've seen them in our garden on numerous occasions during COVID. 664 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:10,840 And now we don't see them anymore again. 665 00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,840 No, right? 666 00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:18,840 It's a human problem. We are the actual parasite. 667 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,840 We're the bacterium on the face of the earth. 668 00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:22,840 Yeah. 669 00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,840 So, okay. 670 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,840 Yeah, like I think we were supposed to be guardians. 671 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,840 We're supposed to help the earth flourish and to continue doing what it does. 672 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:42,840 But we've really, I think we got too smart for our own good or something. I don't know. 673 00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,840 The aliens came down and meddled. There's a few conspiracies. 674 00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,840 Well, they need to come down again and do some more meddling. 675 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,840 Okay. 676 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:59,840 All right. So we're going to do our shameless plug. 677 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,840 I'm sure you've got some cool stuff going on this week, Simon. What you got going on? 678 00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:10,840 Well, as you've probably noticed, I think you saw her earlier. We have a baby squirrel. 679 00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:12,840 A baby squirrel. Yes. 680 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:19,840 She's making it very complicated and interesting. 681 00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:26,840 So I still got to do what I've done before, but now we have a baby squirrel. 682 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,840 But he's now fast asleep in my wife's car. 683 00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,840 Oh, he's so cute though. So cute. 684 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,840 She's still asleep. So I've punched a few videos of her. 685 00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,840 I'm not going to take over the channel with the squirrel. 686 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:45,840 It's no longer the mantis garden. It's just the squirrel guarding. 687 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:53,840 It is very tempting. It is very tempting. But now I'm not going to do that because, you know, my passion is the books. 688 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,840 Of course. 689 00:54:55,840 --> 00:55:00,840 But, you know, mammals, mammals and birds, we've had a few. 690 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,840 We'll have them all. 691 00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,840 We're quite happy to help if they require it. 692 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:07,840 Of course. 693 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:15,840 It's possibly do some stuff. I've got so many eggs, or column eggs. 694 00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:17,840 It's easier. Yeah. 695 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:27,840 For mantis and other things that I've not been doing very much about like selling. 696 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,840 Okay. So that's what I'm doing. 697 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,840 I've got too many spiders as well. So they're all spiders. 698 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,840 Cheap spiders. 699 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,840 Cheap spiders. 700 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,840 You know, yeah. Get in touch with Simon for sure. 701 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,840 Okay. 702 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:54,840 Okay. So my shameless plug this weekend is the All-American Plant and Reptile Expo here in Castle Rock, Colorado at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. 703 00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:01,840 I will be there. I have a cool... I have a t-shirt, obviously, because I went to the first one that there was. 704 00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:11,840 And they... I think that they only do a few locations, but it's such a cool expo. It's well organized. 705 00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:17,840 The vendors, everybody says they absolutely love this expo. They love the people who do it. 706 00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:22,840 So, and they, of course, have all kinds of cool inverts and plants and reptiles. 707 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:29,840 So it's definitely... it's definitely a show worth going to. 708 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,840 It's worth the drive. 709 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,840 Are we to expect a video? 710 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:38,840 Yeah. I'm going to try and take some footage for sure, because I think that... 711 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:46,840 You know, I think this expo definitely deserves the spotlight on my channel a little bit. 712 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,840 So yeah, be expecting a couple of videos. I've got... 713 00:56:49,840 --> 00:57:01,840 Again, I actually have my Pampafabetus species, Makala, or Pampafabetus Makala, has a freaking mold outbreak in his... 714 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:06,840 Or her enclosure, so I need to, like, take him out and redo that whole enclosure. 715 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:16,840 So I'm not sure if I want to film it, because, you know, I'm afraid of the mold, but I will probably film it and show you how I clean everything and all that. 716 00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,840 I've also... Huh? 717 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,840 Is it white mold in the substrate? 718 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,840 Yeah, it's just white mold, you know. 719 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,840 Oh, right. 720 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:32,840 Yeah, and I did release, like, isopods into the enclosure thinking, oh, the isopods will take care of it. 721 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,840 I'm pretty sure that my Makala ate all of the isopods. 722 00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,840 So... 723 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,840 Yeah. 724 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:50,840 Yeah, I can't stop a tarantula from doing what it's going to do, and so I'm pretty sure she decided that, oh, you're an invader. I'm going to eat you. 725 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:54,840 So now there's a mold issue, and so I've got to take care of that. 726 00:57:54,840 --> 00:58:03,840 So be expecting, you know, a video about the mold and, like, how to clean up the enclosure and make sure the mold doesn't come back. 727 00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:09,840 Because I do... I think I have another one that has a little bit of mold, but not as bad as this one. 728 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:15,840 And then I've got some juvenile tarantulas that I also need to put in bigger enclosures. 729 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,840 So be expecting that. 730 00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:29,840 I've been... So my son left the... My son left, and he is in Minnesota now, you know, doing his thing, which is cool. 731 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,840 And as you guys know, I'm a mom, okay? We do mom stuff. 732 00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:44,840 And now that my son is not here, I'm like, huh? I don't know what to do with myself a little bit. 733 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,840 So, you know, I'm just kind of going through this weird empty nester thing. 734 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,840 That's not to say that he won't come back. 735 00:58:52,840 --> 00:59:00,840 But, you know, he's about to be 18 in October. I mean, he's getting to be a man. 736 00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,840 And it was only a matter of time that he flew the coop. 737 00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:09,840 And, you know, I hope I'm not aging myself a whole lot, but... 738 00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,840 Yeah, I'm older than a lot of you might think I am. 739 00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:18,840 But in any case, my kiddo is doing his thing. 740 00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:23,840 And I did a good job because that's what we do as moms. 741 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:28,840 We want them to go and do their thing and be able to take care of themselves 742 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:32,840 and to be able to, you know, provide for themselves, do all these things. 743 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,840 So, I did a good job, but I miss him. 744 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:42,840 So, if you've noticed that I haven't really had a whole lot of videos on my channel lately, 745 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,840 that's why it's because I'm over here going, oh, I miss my kiddo. 746 00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,840 You know, I have less to do. I have less to clean. 747 00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:56,840 I have, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a thing. 748 00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:01,840 But I also have Salmopis, Armenia babies, slings. 749 01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,840 I believe they're all like third, instar, fourth instar. They're all around that area. 750 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:11,840 So, if you are in the Denver, Colorado area and you maybe want to trade 751 01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:16,840 or if you just want a couple of slings, send me a message, hit me up. 752 01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:21,840 I'm on the Colorado Racknid Club. You can find me on Facebook, obviously, here on YouTube. 753 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:27,840 I am happy to give you some slings. But I think that's all I've got. 754 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,840 The empty nest, did you go through an empty nest or phase as well? 755 01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:40,840 No, we went through a phase of where don't let the door hit you on the way out. 756 01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:46,840 Because when you leave, you've got more rooms for books. 757 01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:51,840 Yeah, well, I mean, I've got an empty room that I've got to clean out. 758 01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:58,840 And I'm probably going to put all the tarantulas in that room instead of my living room. 759 01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:04,840 So, you know, yeah, I mean, it's a win. 760 01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:15,840 My son is now 35. He just lives a few houses away. 761 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:21,840 My daughter doesn't live that far away either. I mean, like just a few more houses away. 762 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:27,840 So, you know, so there's my grandchildren at my daughter. 763 01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:33,840 I haven't felt the emptiness to think because, oh, well, that's really nice. 764 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:34,840 Okay, good. 765 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:37,840 Someone's here this afternoon, all afternoon. 766 01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:45,840 It's just like what Lily just said that they are here all the time. 767 01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,840 Lucky. Mine's a whole two states away. 768 01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:51,840 I have. Yeah. Okay. 769 01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:56,840 So, mine's not down the street. 770 01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,840 It's a it's a 12 hour drive from where I'm at. 771 01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:04,840 So, but in any case, that's that's all we've got for you guys today. 772 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,840 Thanks so much for watching and tuning in. 773 01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:13,840 And I really hope that Simon and I could enlighten you on cockroaches. 774 01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:18,840 And hopefully you don't see them quite as negatively as they did before. 775 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,840 So, yeah, we'll see you guys real soon. 776 01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:22,840 And yeah, thanks. 777 01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,840 Thanks again for watching. We love you all. 778 01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:26,840 Thanks, Simon. 779 01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:36,840 See you later.