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I've heard many times there's no such thing as a mutant or albino roach, but after looking around I have come to the conclusion these are both true.
Many have said roaches cant be albino, or at least cant be white in color, they said a white roach is a newly molted one, which is partly true. Why cant a roach be albino, just because it doesnt have red blood doesnt mean it cant have red eyes. Cicadas and some flies have red eyes, and they dont have red blood either. And take a look at true albino animals, even they are not 100% white, some body parts remain other colors. So mabye an albino roach wouldnt have red eyes, or mabye it would but the body wouldnt be white color, mabye instead it would be cream color?
On this site we have seen a roach that is speckled with light areas, and the regular color is dark brown-black, so who knows mabye that is an albino roach,(or what people would call an albino) afterall it's not that color because it just molted, that was already proven.
So if we find roaches that are different colors than normal, than im sure a white roach can and did pop up somewhere.
In my book I found this article, read it.
I also came across this site, which advertises a book on albino creatures. It too mentions about an albino cockroach (scroll to the bottom under "insects"), I havent read the book so I dont know what info it has, or if there is a picture.
http://www.kellymilnerhalls.com/index.2ts?page=albino
Now back to the mutant roaches, here is proof of mutant german roaches, and the white eye american cockroach. Once again, mabye an albino roach is a roach with white eyes, who knows?
http://everest.ento.vt.edu/~watson/pages/Photoalbum.html
Many have said roaches cant be albino, or at least cant be white in color, they said a white roach is a newly molted one, which is partly true. Why cant a roach be albino, just because it doesnt have red blood doesnt mean it cant have red eyes. Cicadas and some flies have red eyes, and they dont have red blood either. And take a look at true albino animals, even they are not 100% white, some body parts remain other colors. So mabye an albino roach wouldnt have red eyes, or mabye it would but the body wouldnt be white color, mabye instead it would be cream color?
On this site we have seen a roach that is speckled with light areas, and the regular color is dark brown-black, so who knows mabye that is an albino roach,(or what people would call an albino) afterall it's not that color because it just molted, that was already proven.
So if we find roaches that are different colors than normal, than im sure a white roach can and did pop up somewhere.
In my book I found this article, read it.
I also came across this site, which advertises a book on albino creatures. It too mentions about an albino cockroach (scroll to the bottom under "insects"), I havent read the book so I dont know what info it has, or if there is a picture.
http://www.kellymilnerhalls.com/index.2ts?page=albino
Now back to the mutant roaches, here is proof of mutant german roaches, and the white eye american cockroach. Once again, mabye an albino roach is a roach with white eyes, who knows?
http://everest.ento.vt.edu/~watson/pages/Photoalbum.html
