All About Arthropods Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Hey everbody! Hope you guys can help me out with identifying all these insects I found over the last two days! https://allaboutarthropods.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-couple-id-requests.html Thanks in advance for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 The roaches are Parcoblattas. The millipedes are in the genus Apheloria. Maybe A. virginensis. The caterpillar looks like a Pandora Sphinx Moth. It will turn into a very beautiful moth, unless it's been parasitized by braconid wasps which happens to them very frequently. The katydid is some sort of conehead. The little white fluffy guys are woolly aphids. Sometimes when a bunch of them are flying around it looks like it's snowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 Thanks for the help! Have any idea of which species of Parcoblatta they may be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 The roaches are indeed Parcoblatta, probably P.virginica, though they could be P.pennsylvanica as well. Nice finds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 The roaches are indeed Parcoblatta, probably P.virginica, though they could be P.pennsylvanica as well. Nice finds! Awesome, glad that they are Parcoblatta, hopefully I have a pair out of the four I found Thanks, didn't end up keeping the caterpillar or katydid though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cariblatta lutea Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Yep, those roaches are definitely P. virginica nymphs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Yep, those roaches are definitely P. virginica nymphs Cool, thanks for the confirmation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Does anyone happen to know what types of leaves the Pandora sphinx moth caterpillar eats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 Does anyone happen to know what types of leaves the Pandora sphinx moth caterpillar eats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Does anyone happen to know what types of leaves the Pandora sphinx moth caterpillar eats? They eat grape leaves, though I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing they eat and you should feed them whatever plant you find them on. If you find a large specimen crawling around on the ground it's probably done eating and looking for a place to pupate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 They eat grape leaves, though I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing they eat and you should feed them whatever plant you find them on. If you find a large specimen crawling around on the ground it's probably done eating and looking for a place to pupate. Makes sense, we found it on a kind of ivy, and I have grape vines growing all over my fence, so shouldn't be a problem feeding it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 NOOOO!!! Just checked on it to see a ton of small parasitic wasp larvae coming out of it's back! Was really hoping to rear this beautiful caterpillar to an adult. I will try to preserve it's body once it dies( which will most likely happen within a few hours.) I'll make a blog post later with a couple pics of the grim scene. But on a good note, I was able to catch 3 more P.virginica and 1 more pale-form A.virginiensis, a very small lynx spider sling, and a couple P.permundus and P.scaber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 NOOOO!!! Just checked on it to see a ton of small parasitic wasp larvae coming out of it's back! Was really hoping to rear this beautiful caterpillar to an adult. I will try to preserve it's body once it dies( which will most likely happen within a few hours.) I'll make a blog post later with a couple pics of the grim scene. Yup. That's what happens to 'em every time. I've tried to rear dozens of sphinx moth larvae and only one didn't turn out to be infested with wasps. If you want to rear sphinx moths that don't erupt into piles of wasp grubs keep an eye out for adults next year, maybe set up a light sheet and if you're lucky you might find a gravid female. You can also order eggs pretty cheap from places like InsectNet or trade livestock on Ovogram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Thanks for the advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metrioptera Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 The conehead is a male Neoconocephalus sp, probably N. retusus. I have not had much luck keeping members of this genus, the longest I have kept an adult was a couple of weeks before it died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All About Arthropods Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 The conehead is a male Neoconocephalus sp, probably N. retusus. I have not had much luck keeping members of this genus, the longest I have kept an adult was a couple of weeks before it died. Thank you for the I.D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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