I work as a freelance artist and children's book illustrator. I always have adored insects and plants and nature in general, and have notebooks full of my studies of everything from June bugs to wooly aphids to cecropia moths that I started at age 5. I'm a little quirky, nerdy and boring, spending my time studying nature and being a big kid... but I look forward to meeting new people here and learning more about my favorite critters :)

My dream is to go to school for Entomology or Ethnoentomology, a career that has been my dream since childhood. If not that, I at least want to be a teacher, so I have the opportunity to also educate kids about bugs. Ethnoentomology in particular fascinates me as I think it's important to educate people about how important insects are to people in every culture.

The outdoors, camping, fishing, swimming, hiking, playing guitar, drawing, clowning... I also love cartoons from the 80's and from early Nickelodeon. I collect 80's My Little Pony, socks, eyeballs, marionettes, clowns, vintage prosthetics, J-horror and b-movies. I love Pee-Wee Herman WAY more than I should.

~Updated: Nov. 24~
MY ROACHES
blaberus giganteus (Giant Cave)
gromphadorhina portentosa (Madagascan Hissing)
gromphadorhina oblongata (Giant Hisser)
wild-caught eurycotis floridana (Skunk)
wild-caught periplaneta australasiae (Australian) x50ish
wild-caught blatta orientalis (Oriental)
neostylopyga rhombifolia (Harlequin)
eublaberus posticus (Orange Head)
blaberus discoidales (Discoid)
blaptica dubia
blatta lateralis (Turkestan)
naupheta cinerea (Lobster)
periplaneta americana (American)
rhypharobia maderae (golden)
blaberus craniifer (death's head)

+ 4 giant african millipedes, 3 pterinochilus murinus, 1 brachypelma albopilosum, 1 giant water bug, etc

I also have 1 tiger salamander, 1 cat, 3 rats, 2 red tail boas, 1 leopard gecko, 2 white's tree frogs, 1 scolopendra subspinipes, etc.

Thank GOD I work from home ;)

Roaches, roaches, and more roaches!!! I can't get enough of them.

Specifically, my wish list goes as follows:
(*=most wanted)

COCKROACHES:
***Archiblatta hoeveni
***ellipsidion (any)
***Megaloblatta blaberoides (haha)
***polyzosteria mitchelli
***polyzosteria viridissima
***macropanesthia rhinoceros (rhino roach)
*aptera fusca (mountain cockroach)
hormetica subcincta (glow spot)
cryptocercus punctulatus (brown hooded)
princisia vanwerebeki
deropeltis paulinoi
periplaneta fuliginosa
lucihormetica verrucosa

MILLIPEDES:
*Telodeinopus aoutii
*centrobolus ruber vulpinus
*centrobolus splendidus
*aphistogoniulus corallipes (madagascan fire)
*aulacobolus rubropunctatus (rainbow)
*dendrostreptus macracanthus (pink legged)
*telodeinopus aoutii
*Ommatoiulus rutilans
epibolus pulchripes
apheloria tigana
ophistreptus guineensis (chocolate congo)
chicobolus spinigerus (florida ivory)
pachybolus ligulatus
pachybolus laminatus
orthoporus ornatus (sonoran desert)
sphaerotherium hippocastaneum (giant emerald pill)
spirostreptus brachycerus (tanzanian pink)
spirostreptidae (olive)
trigoniulus corallinus
rhinocricid anadenobolus monilicornis
tronkinbolus caudulanus
eurhinocricus rosenbergi

OTHER:
***Acanthoplus discoidalis (armored ground cricket)
**nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (purple pig nose frog)
hemiscolopendra marginata (blue centipede)
morelia boeleni (black d'alberts python)
poecilotheria metallica (gooty sapphire tarantula)
xenesthis immanis (colombian lesserblack tarantula)

Freelance Artist, Clown, Wannabe Cockroach Expert

http://www.reptilegeeks.com/CockroachMonster/
http://penanggalan.deviantart.com (my art)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Penanggalanmonster (youtube)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/penanggalan/ (flickr)
http://facebook.com/Penanggalan (facebook)

Joe's Apartment, The Nest, Sick Girl, Beetlejuice, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Silent Hill, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Blue Butterfly, Indiana Jones, Coraline, Edward Scissorhands, Drop Dead Fred, Little Monsters, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Willard, The People Under the Stairs, The Unnameable (I love Alyda), Ekusute, House of 1000 Corpses, The Fountain, The Neverending Story, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth... Heh, I am a movie person.

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