If wearing a live Madagascar hissing cockroach encrusted in Swarovski crystals isn't a sign of the end times, I don't know what is. I have to side with PETA on this one:
"For a person who doesn't mind a small animal excreting on them throughout the day and doesn't have an ounce of compassion for these small, defenseless animals, this could be just the gift." PETA spokesman Michael McGraw
Gross. Via Cynical-C. And why does the hand model have chipped polish? Is the roach a nail nibbler?
Here's an article from Purdue's Entomolgy department about the historical use of live insects in jewelry.
It's gonna hurt when we knock her over and stomp on her hand.
Good bug? Dead bug.
Posted by: Rob B. | June 14, 2006 at 09:08 AM
They attach it with a "roach clip" or so I'm told.
Posted by: gail | June 14, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Yikes! That's pretty sick. I suppose the next idea is to incorporate live bugs into piercings?
Posted by: Kiyoshi Martinez | June 15, 2006 at 02:59 AM
Eeeewwww. What a thought!
Posted by: gail | June 15, 2006 at 07:34 AM
This style was mirrored in last week's episode of CSI:NY. Weird, but maybe not too much different than the way we wear animal fur and other stuff.
Posted by: Jason | March 28, 2007 at 04:11 PM
I have two male hissers and I think they're lovely the way they are, no jewels needed. Though the one good thing that might come out of this will be that more people might be turned on to hissers as pets. After all, they're much better suited to captivity than hermit crabs (which to give them a fair, nice life is much more work then people seem to think. All water has to be dechlorinated, have to have an undertank heater, has to be humid at all times, etc). And no, hissers wouldn't bit nails. Their jaws can't bite carrots unless they're cut into thin slices, so nails would be impossible. Plus, why would they want to get anywhere near smelly nail polish anyway?
Posted by: A.r. | July 26, 2007 at 12:48 PM