The Student Who Willingly Shares A Room With Tens-Of-Thousands Of Cockroaches
The Student Who Willingly Shares A Room With Tens-Of-Thousands Of Cockroaches
Although cockroaches are undoubtedly disgusting insects, some people love disgusting things, so naturally some people would love cockroaches, right? This seems to be the thinking behind pet cockroaches, and cockroach farms. Believe it or not, some people have always been attracted to the idea of raising their very own cockroaches, and more and more people are giving it a try. Recently the Bronx Zoo in New York City sold-off a large portion of their live madagascar hissing cockroach collection to consumers looking to buy gifts. The cockroaches were being marketed as ideal valentines day gifts, and surprisingly, they sold like hot cakes. Cockroaches are becoming so popular as pets that some enterprising individuals are profiting on this new trend by raising and selling them. For those people who are not disturbed by creepy crawlies, and are a bit late on rent, turning your home into a cockroach farm is a great way to make ends meet. A young university student from Dearborn, Michigan named Kyle Kandilian set up a roach farm within his parents home several months ago. Now Kandilian has up to two hundred thousand cockroaches with him in his bedroom.
Kandilian has pretty cool parents, as his mother allows the cockroach population within her home to persist just as long as her son always remembers to keep his door shut. Kandilian, who is only twenty years old, raises cockroaches in order to sell them to people as pets or as feed for pet snakes. Kandilian has raised up to one hundred and thirty different cockroach varieties, and the profits he is making are helping him pay for his education in environmental science. The cost for a single roach depends on the species chosen. For example, some roach species, such as Macropanesthia rhinoceros, can live for up to fifteen years. Due to their long lives, these rhino-roaches can cost between one hundred and fifty and two hundred dollars each, which is more expensive than most other roach species that are available in Kandilian’s room. Kandilian’s interest in insects and entomology has prompted several universities into offering him a scholarship.
If you were Kandilian would you be afraid of cockroaches entering a bodily orifice (mouth, ear) while sleeping?