By Kelli Rolling
The Grand Island Independent
HASTINGS, Neb. — Some people may find anything that crawls repulsive, including spiders, cockroaches and worms. Vanessa Cox thinks of those critters as the opposite: cute and cuddly.
The recent May Hastings College art graduate raises cockroaches and mealworms, and has three pet tarantulas, a chihuahua and a handful of cats. She loves and appreciates her critters so much that she even featured her cockroaches and worms in her senior art project.