The Madagascar hissing cockroach is not to be confused with your commonplace house roach. Measuring 2 to 3 inches long, this giant bug has no wings and prefers a strictly vegetarian diet of fresh ...

Make a $15 donation to the Bronx Zoo's Name a Roach fundraiser and the zoo will name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after an ex. Donors receive a digital certificate to honor their not-so-loved one.

The Madagascar hissing cockroach is distinct from the American cockroach that more commonly lurks New York City apartments — they’re considerably bigger and, as the name suggests, they hiss.

Two Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, each with a caricature of the presidential candidates glued to its back, raced as part of the event attended by more than 600 professional pest control managers.

The hissing noise they make is a natural defense mechanism. “Nothing says forever like a cockroach,” said Jim Breheny, Senior Vice President for Living Institutions and Director of the Bronx Zoo.

None of them hailed from Madagascar, bred 300 offspring every 60 days, or would survive an atomic winter and repopulate the earth. None of them was a hissing cockroach, but ONE of them, (lizard) would ...

SWARM Biotactics is creating miniature devices mounted on actual Madagascar hissing cockroaches, effectively creating an army ...

You can say "I wuv u - not" by bestowing your ex's name on a hissing cockroach! NPR's Scott Simon muses on a fundraiser for a Chicago Zoo, and whether the roaches really deserve it.

Since 2011, the New York-based zoo has offered visitors the chance to name one of their thousands of Madagascar hissing cockroaches, as part of their "Name-a-Roach" fundraiser.