The University of Arizona festival returns on Oct. 9, after a two-year hiatus caused by a worldwide outbreak of a different kind of bug.
Henry Brean Some cockroaches like to cuddle. You’re just going to have to trust Kathleen Walker about that.
“They're what we call gregarious. They live in a group, they know each other, and they all engage in brood care. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, it doesn't matter if it's your baby,” she said. “This is the thing: When you actually know about them, they're really quite appealing little animals.”
Several UA departments will be represented, as will the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, the Southeastern Arizona Butterfly Association, Tohono Chul and others. Walker has been keeping hissing cockroaches since she was in college. She started her colony at the UA in 2005, when she got about 10 of the wingless forest dwellers to use in her Insect Discovery educational outreach programs at local schools.
“The best thing you can say is that they tolerate humans,” she said. “They recognize me in the sense that after I've held them they won't hiss at me.”
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