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Devon_Paul

Hi, just thought I would ask whether or not anyone has been watching this programme. Watched it this week and many of the 'trials' have involved cockroaches. They looked very similar to my Lobster Roaches, but just wondered whether anyone could confirm this? They had at one point 20,000 in a 'coffin' that one of the contestants had to lie in for 10 minutes. She said that they were biting her and crawling up her privates!! Embarassed

Young_Gun · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:11 am Post subject:

Don't watch it but they probably will have been lobbies or if not hissers, how big were they?

Roaches do like dark, warm and damp conditions Wink

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Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

Never known a lobster roach bite, I have had hundreds crawling up my arms and never been bitten by them. They looked like lobsters but maybe a similar species as they seemed larger to me than the Lobster Roach, Nauphoeta Cinerea. Not that I watched the programme Laughing

They wer'nt hissers but may have been Giant lobster roach Henschoutedenia flexivitta.
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Bohan · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:26 am Post subject:

Saw that, looked like N cinerea to me but yeah, if they seem too big they might well have been the giant lobsters Henschoutedenia flexivitta
She was probably mistaking the insects leg spines sticking in her for bites.
I'd have filled my pockets just in case i'd failed the trial, mid-night snack when the others were asleep Laughing

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Lynne · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

JohnC · Key Member Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 219 Location: UK

One of the challenges was a perspex box with some brilliant looking carpet snakes, including a lovely diamond about 3 feet and several brightly coloured smaller ones. The carpets looked very relaxed and non-menacing.
The hideous celebrity dare not put her head inside.
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Lynne · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:47 am Post subject:

PaulG · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject:

Them snakes were nice JohnC!

I would of pinched it. . . lol
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Devon_Paul · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject:

On tonight's program they had to get a chocolate cake from a perspex chest by completing mathematical puzzles and using the results to open some padlocks. In the bottom of the chest were hundreds of roaches. They looked totally like the lobster roaches that I have been breeding, but none of them were climbing! What species could these be? Any ideas? You will be pleased to hear that in the end, they didn't get the sums right within the time limit and it dropped into the bottom for the roaches to consume!!

ToonTomH · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject:

What surprised me was how stupid a couple of them were! They narrowed down one of the questions to 47-27, but the lass still had to answer it herself. She came out with answers of 13 & 19 and loads more before she even got it!

Another had to work out 20% of 60, and they said to work out 10% of 60 first (This is a bit harder, but not much) and she was coming out with 23 & 35 and other stupid answers!

I couldn't believe it when I was watching it!
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