Stephen M. Casper | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Stephen M. Casper â21 smiles for a Zoom screenshot while Trevor, his Madagascar hissing cockroach, crawls across his left cheek. Despite the species name, Trevor stays quiet â heâs pretty docile in the wintertime, explains Casper, who has kept pet cockroaches in his dorm room since he was a freshman. Over the summer in 2018, Casper was working on a bioinformatics project under the Church Lab and living in Winthrop House when two of his cockroaches mated. Overwhelmed with 30 newborn cockroaches, Casper wanted to do some âcircle of life stuffâ and feed them to a lizard,...
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