A look at Kyle Kandilian's roach room

Kyle Kandilian breeds a variety of cockroaches, most colonies in plastic displays, in his Dearborn, Mich., home. Oxyhaloa duesta is also known as the red-head roach.

Lucihormetica verrucosa, more commonly known as a warty glowspot, is a cockroach native to Venezuela and Colombia but also flourishes in Kyle Kandilian's Dearborn, Mich., home.

Periplaneta brunnea, also known as a brown cockroach, can be found in the southern U.S. but is thought to have traveled to this country from Africa via shipping containers. One colony is part of Kyle Kandilian's Dearborn, Mich., collection.

Lucihormetica verrucosa, or warty glowspot cockroach, with others in the colony at Kyle Kandilian's Dearborn, Mich., home.

Even when his cockroaches are as big as the Blaberus giganteus, the Central American giant cockroach, Kyle Kandilian doesn't give his insects a name anymore. This cockroach species, part of the collection in his Dearborn, Mich., home, is considered one of the largest in the world.

Oxyhaloa deusta, the red-head roach, in a colony with adults and nymphs in Kyle Kandilian's Dearborn, Mich., home.

This Gromphadorhina grandidieri colony in Kyle Kandilian's Dearborn, Mich., home is one of several hissing cockroach species from the island of Madagascar.