Zephyr Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 If you have a chance, get a picture of the structures beneath the wings of the orange species and post it on Bugguide. I have a hunch you've got virginica too but we can always use an expert's opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 I already did. We apparently need a microscope to see the hairs. They were not visible to the naked eye, and do not show up in my photo that I got Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Those are HUGE if they are virginica. I think you have something else there. My male virginica are the size of Germans at about half an inch at most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 Nah they are pretty darn small. Especially the females Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 The die off of the males has begun. I came home today for mother's birthday and I checked on the roaches. I removed all these dead males from the floor of the colony. Not a single dead female, and about 50% of the females are carrying a oothecae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 The males should live longer than that shouldn't they? I feel like these just recently molted into adulthood...hmm. Maybe the literature is a bit off on the male life span Eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted April 8, 2011 Author Share Posted April 8, 2011 I got to check on the colony today. All the males are now gone. There are just females, nymphs, and hatchlings left now. Yes, I did see some new born nymphs in the tank!! woo! And the bottom of the cage is littered with all different kinds of oothecae. And here are 3 different females which happened to be together for a good photo. There is still another kind of orange one in there which I havn't photographed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 It's very interesting to see long wings on those female P. pennsylvanica. Are most of yours like that? Speaking of Parcoblatta, the snow is gone here and I finally went out looking for stuff the other day. I found 5 Parcoblatta nymphs (probably all pennsylvanica) about 6 feet up under the bark of dead ash trees. Makes me wonder if they overwinter there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Those look too big to be P. virginica females, do think they are P. lata or Parcoblatta americana? My female P. virginica are dinky, just around 3/8 of an inch...much much smaller than my P. pennsylvanica females which are over 3/4 of an inch. I'm curious how well the hatching will go, I'm still waiting on my 8-10 ooths to pop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 All of the pennsylvanica females have wings like that. I've never seen one with short wings. I honestly don't know about the ID of the others. There are lots of different possibilities of which none can be really proven without an expert I think I saw some nymphs hatching yesterday. Unfortunately I had to leave though. 4 more weeks until I will be home for the summer. The enclosure was crawling with nymphs though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 I'm home for the summer now and most of the adults in my colony have died off. There are still occasional adult females but no males. There are a lot of sub adult numphs, and TONS of hatchlings. I would go as far as saying maybe a few hundred. This is just one of the 4 egg crates... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likebugs Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Lots of babies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted July 28, 2011 Author Share Posted July 28, 2011 Its been a few months and the first of this generation are starting to reach adult hood. I saw a newly molted female yesterday. There is an overwhelming number of them now_ must be a hundred or more. You guys WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much food they go through every night. Handfuls and handfuls of fishfood, chicken food, and fresh apple go into the cage every night and it is all gone by morning As to if I am able to keep this colony much longer, I doubt it. I'm going back to school next month and mom refuses to take care of them again. Even if she did agree, the numbers are so large they would be unmanageable for her. So hopefully if I release 3/4 of them, she will take care of them for me and they can re populate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demon Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Wow i wish my dermestids would populate a container like that! BTW have you decided to cull off the colony or is it still running? You should be able to use them as wasp food look meatier then crickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcbpolish Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Found this old thread... anyone know what happened to this colony of parcoblatta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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