Allpet Roaches

Did you figure out what these came from? Does seem like something leftover from a food item.

They can coexist for years in the same culture container but the pruinosus tend to breed much faster.

sorry to hear you had a collecting trip to remember.

Thanks!

Found one.

Keep in mind a normal cage lid will keep in adults very easy. It's the babies that are hard to contain and they dry up and die often very quickly in a normal home.

Collected some leaves for the second generation false potato beetles and collected one of these: Plagiometriona clavata - Clavate Tortoise Beetle. It's relatively tiny but interesting. No larvae though.

Yes, fat mantids and roaches are well known for this behavior.

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Your best bet is to find wild populations and hunt for orange or calico specimens. With your current method it might take you decades or you may never seen an orange as long as you live. You can only isolate a gene that exists within the specimens you have. You can't expect to pull them from a stock without the gene. It might be there and it might not. Orange are common in the US but they are probably all from ones I isolated and traded in the 90's, but I started with one orange. Calico will be a byproduct of isolating the orange but it is very difficult to isolate the calico because it is more than one gene. Isopods aren't terribly predatory unless the food doesn't move like a pupa.

Cleaner beetles are a threat but mostly if the population is excessive.

Welcome! I still have not picked up any of those Gyna centurio, how is your culture doing?

They certainly can associate the food bowl location and they have a great sense of smell so they probably smell the food and go for the bowl even before you put it in there.

I think pretty much anything you can find is introduced except the littoral species.

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