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Welcome!!! Polystes wasp, turtle and snakes? that sounds strange from a tleilaxu... I supposed you were breeding Face Dancers...

I've observed that many species of roaches often keep a pond stick with one leg of first pair to eat it, just like mantids do with their preys...

I've bought some roaches (2 species of Therea)from Arthropodia, a french breeding center... there is not a site, but you can download a PDF containing pricelist and address here: List They sell stick insects, mantids, roaches and so on....

I'm a professional Pest Control Operator and a roach breeder... Blatta lateralis grows and breeds very slow under 24-26°C (and does not reproduce under 20°C)... I confirm that some well positioned glue traps are enough to control escapees...

White dwarf isopods are parthenogenetic... if you keep them dark, humid and warm, they reproduce like rabbits...

Livebearers and very good climbers on glass and smooth surfaces... I breed them without substrate, only egg crates...

These are pictures of a Chionea sp., a sort of non flying "daddy long legs" that mates and lays eggs only when it's snowing...

You should find some data here: Lobster Roach

The two females are approximatively 60 mm bodylenght... the male is 50-55 mm One has moulted after I bought them... without problems...

Hisser's nymphs are brown-black, but are not burrowers Dubia's nymphs are light grey and good burrowers

I bought two Peripatoides novaezealandiae from UK last year ... I kept them cold and humid as requested, but they both died in some months... Here it was going to eat a little roach just glued to the substrate...

New pictures...

The eggcase takes 30-45 days or more to hatch, it depends from temperature... with high temperatures the hatching time is shorter...

As promised...

I bought three adults (one male and two females) on sunday... I'll be very grateful for every suggestion about setup, temperature, humidity and food... and, of course, I'll post some pictures ASAP...

Oops...I forgot to mention the infos are referred to laboratory condictions (T°= 30°C)...

Blattella lays the first ootheca 8 days after its last moult. It can produce 4-8 oothecas in its adult life, every 22 days. Medium hatching time: 17 days Number of eggs in a ootheca: 37 (but only 28 will hatch) Time to reach adulthood: 40-41 days Number of moults: 5-7 Adult life: 128-153 days

Blattella germanica actually represents the 80-85% of my PCO's work... But Supella longipalpa is coming up really fast... three homes infested in last three days...

cute....

it's the adult male....

Lytta vesicatoria is fully winged and metallic green... so it can't be... It's a female of Meloe sp.

Panesthia angustipennis?

Here's a picture of the bucket cage I use for little climbing/flying roaches like Panchlora...

Archispirostreptus has "military secretion"... it may be harmful to roaches...

You can sex them just as other roaches without sexual dimorphism. You have to look the ventral face of their abdomen: