Jump to content

BugmanPrice

Members
  • Posts

    536
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by BugmanPrice

  1. Yeah, you're right. Periplaneta spp. have more filiform-like cerci...
  2. Since one fifth of all plants and animals is a beetle (most of them weevils) naming a species to these guys is extremely hard. There are whole families of beetles that are not represented on Bugguide.net which is a good popular resource but should not be used for conclusive ID although many people do and even putting things in the correct subfamilies often requires many, many, years of experience. I know of a PhD who studies ONE Subgenus of water beetles... that's it, which is her full time job! Even putting a correct genus towards these beetles would be very hard. As far as the question of is something an asset to the hobby: if you are keeping something and personally learning about the animals, whether it be husbandry, diet, or even behavior, and you are having fun... go for it, it's an asset to the hobby. Neat beetles even with their little phoretic buddy!
  3. BugmanPrice

    My Froggies

    Wow, they’re handsome little fellas!
  4. My guess is Periplaneta fuliginosa… but I could be wrong. We’ll see when it matures!
  5. Depending on what the information is being used for you could always contact the British museum of natural history that has a fellow working on cockroaches there. He's a busy guy but he may be able to go through their large collection to see if here are any specimens collected from there. It seems like there was someone working on cockroaches in Germany as well...? For sure from France but I have never contacted him before. Museums are amazing institutions because they offer loads of opportunities for data mining.
  6. My guess is that they are there and nobody has looked yet or hasn't looked in the right places. A cockroach won't turn around from its track because he’s crossing a country boundary of course so they have to be. I did check my literature and did not find any mention of E. posticus specifically in Venezuela (just some of the places you’ve mentioned); although I did find out one was found on an airplane in the Southern U.S. once. I wonder if he flew first class or was a coachroach? Sorry…
  7. I usually go the borax method with sticky traps as well for my pest control needs since I’m cautious of all the spray on pesticides. I’m not sure if it would harm your ‘roaches if ants are eating the borax (or walk through a bait trap or pesticide) and then tracking into your ‘roach bins, which would happen a couple hundred times from all the ants. Ants are pretty good at going around sticky traps so I doubt those would work… I hope somebody can help you out.
  8. Welcome aboard. Most people start out in the ‘roach hobby by obtaining some sort of feeder and get attached; you are not the only one! Hopefully that, you know some guy named Orin, can hook you up with some hissers. That’s neat you want to be a botanist and you like bugs though, most of the botanists at my university do not like creepy crawlies even though they recognize that bugs and plants go hand in hand. I’ve decided that within entomology three quarters of the time you are taking bad bugs off good plants and a quarter of the time you are putting good bugs on bad plants.
  9. Ah, very nice. I'm always interested in obtaining foreign scientific publications, especially checklists and sp. descriptions. Thank you for sharing!
  10. Congrats! I’ll give you the appropriate “Awwwww, cute” since we run on a low estrogen level around here someone has to do it. Best of luck to ya!
  11. Really that's like watching a race to scale a wall between Jackie Chan vs. Steven Seagal; we should cheer an adult hisser who can actually make it up.
  12. I wouldn't be worried too much about lateralis invasiveness. They are already out in CA so if they were going to become invasive (as in an invasive species in “the wild”, they don’t live well in your house) in your neck of the woods my guess is that they'd already be there. They are really easy to contain though so I wouldn’t worry about that too much. Also, what temps are you looking at in the garage? No matter what the feeder you're using they don't like cold (<65 at a max) temperatures. Personally I love my lateralis for feeders; I’d support Roachman26’s opinion in saying you may want to try a few (lats and dubia) to see which one you like. Be warned however, you’ll probably like both for different reasons and that’s how the addiction starts for most of us…
  13. Welcome to the forum! There used to be a couple of your countrymen around... I had a question the other day maybe you could answer it, are Canadians fans of "Strange Brew"? Personally it's one of my favorite movies but I know Australians despise "crocodile Dundee" (Another of my favorites) because it makes people misunderstand the culture there. Just curious...
  14. Neato little 'roach! The reason the adults can climb glass and the nymphs can't it because they don't get the aroleum (a little pad between the claws) until they are adults. At least in this genus.
  15. Was there any baseline substrate under the frass or was it bare when you cleaned up?
  16. The shortest lived culture I have had was of Ergaula capucina last year. I ordered a dozen and when they came I was surprised… I received two adult females and 11 tiny guys; they were a little larger then a pinhead cricket and were kind of translucent like one as well. Within twenty four hours all of the little ones disappeared, the next day one female was dead. By the third day since they had come, guess what, the other adult knocked off too. I was quite annoyed as you could imagine. I think that it could have been a humidity issue. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s quite dry where I am and there was a lot of ventilation for the cage I had them in. I also didn’t have the breeding cabinet I do now which would have helped with that a bit. I misted them the day they came and I set them up with nice damp potting soil like I use for everything else… but I think these guys just need higher humidity than my set up was capable of maintaining. One day I’ll give these another shot; but, before I get anymore cultures I want to get at least a generation from every species I have so far. Nice species though.
  17. I want to know is this: What is the hardest species of ‘roach to keep/breed that you’ve personally kept? What I mean by personally is I wouldn’t post “Macropanesthia rhinoceros” since I’ve never kept one myself. I’m interested to see what the hardest species to keep/breed is, but of course that could be different for everyone. Also it’d be nice to know WHY it was difficult (if you know why, sometimes you just don’t). This is a thread I’ve thought about starting for awhile now. I think this would be a great way for people to share their experiences with some of the more fastidious species so others don’t make the same mistake. I’ll be polite and start off…
  18. I use a potting soil mix that doesn’t have fertilizers or perlite. I can’t remember the name of the brand… I really like it though.
  19. Neat! The only experience I have with this sp. is collecting them wild out of an island in the Bahamas (they seem to get along with ants very well by the way). Do the adults dig under the substrate or run… in, oh, let’s say a feeding situation? I’ve been thinking about getting a culture of these to use as a feeder for some of my Ts and such. I like the newly molted individual in photo #1, it’s like a really odd Where’s Waldo puzzle.
  20. I was wondering how the “incubation period” was going for you. Congrats and best of luck!!!
  21. Looks like nylon screening, did they chew through the screening or just rip off the hot glue? I think the ones that look mushed should probably be okay. What did you use for ventilation on your jar container? Looks like tiny holes drilled in the pic… I can’t tell though.
×
×
  • Create New...