Observations from 3/15/2010 - 3/22/2010

• When I received the cockroaches this time, once again, I noticed that they weren't very active, so this made me wonder if they just aren't very active during the day time.
• I looked up some information about the cockroaches to see if this was normal behavior for them. Sure enough, I found out that they are most active at night, so then I began to be less worried about them.
• I began to wonder if these cockroaches liked being around each other at all. I noticed that they never really come near each other. They were always on opposite sides of the cage, or Pete was climbing around and Repeat stayed on the bottom of the cage. This too made me wonder if this is normal behavior for cockroaches.
• I read that cockroaches really liked fruit, so I let them try eating a grape and they really seemed to like those.
• Again, I noticed that Repeat still doesn't move around much, whereas Pete is all over the place, whether on the bottom of the cage, or climbing all around the cage. He is a very active cockroach most of the time.

Heidi Stucki