vfox Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I see like 8-9 adults just in that image lol. You're going to have SO MANY BABIES! Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hisserman Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Awesome! Maybe you can borrow vfox's magic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 I've got plenty of magic. That's how I rear very sensitive Yellowjacket queens in captivity & I'm not sure how I will even approach these guys now. I used to be able to do whatever I wanted, without worry of an escapee. Now they are going to be all over the place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hisserman Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 WOW! How does one care for one? PM me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLPBugs Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 That's how I rear very sensitive Yellowjacket queens in captivity Very Nice Indeed, I To Would Be Interested In This... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 I might as well just post it in the General section whenever I get time if more than one person is interested. Might be a little bit though, I am so busy lately it is just ridiculous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Just got home! I'm pretty much overwhelmed by the amount of adults in there! There's orange ones and black ones and brown ones... all sorts! Lots of mature females too. The female which I found in my spare room in December is a last instar nymph, and she is definitely something different! Can't wait till she's an adult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Here is a male and female from the main colony (in other words they are offspring of the original two parents) http://bugguide.net/node/view/488737 Here is the large brown colored male http://bugguide.net/node/view/485740 And here is one of the little orange males http://bugguide.net/node/view/488742 I will be feeding them some apple later tonight, so I will get more photos of the entire colony then. By the way, there are still many nymphs left! They really need a bigger cage, lol. I can't believe how many of them there are. No sign of oothecae yet though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 By the way vfox, I tried to replicate what you had done to manually spread the wings of the males. How did you hold the wings and take the photo at the same time? I wish I had a third arm, lol. I had to ask my dad to take photos while I held them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 The males are ridiculously active! They are running around the cage like nuts. Flying from side to side too. In this video you can see two flights if you watch close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Very cool. I've never had a male try and fly yet, I've almost lost one up my sleeve though, lol. I used easy release painters tape to hold a chilled specimen's wings open. You still need to be careful though because they are very delicate. To remove the tape put it in the freezer with the roach and all and it will come off clean. Pin down the wing near the tape when you remove it though otherwise you could pull off the wing or tear it. Btw your little males look just like mine. I'm almost certain they are Parcoblatta virginica, jet waiting on conformation from Mr. Carlson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Awesome! I got to observe a mating frenzy tonight, and I found out how they court. I always wondered about it, and was actually going to post a question about how the males go about courting. Well, I answered my own question! You guys are probably getting sick of the updates. It will stop once I go back to school tomorrow. lol http://bugguide.net/node/view/488834 & here's a photo of the food dish after dark. The adult males really are not interested much in eating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Your females have such long wings! My ladies' wings are nowhere near that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likebugs Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I like the pics, and the video. I will probably never get sick of looking at, and reading about bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hisserman Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 You two are lucky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolverine Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Nice pics cant wait to get sum of those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 4, 2011 Author Share Posted March 4, 2011 Home for spring break. The roaches are seriously too much for the size of enclosure. They can't possibly keep multiplying with that high of a pop density. There are plenty of orange females and males, so they have their own population too There are various colors of oothecae that I can see buried in the bottom Here is the female that I found in my spare room a while back. she has matured and is larger than all the other females. The wings are also shaped differently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 Your females have such long wings! My ladies' wings are nowhere near that long. Interesting. My females from Tennessee have fairly long wings. Maybe the further south you go the longer the wings? A female I found around here had short wings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 I'm not sure what factors control the wing length I lifted up the food dish today to find all of these beauties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 I wouldn't be surprised if these were used as feeders some day... They breed so fast. @_@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 a few chaotic males slipped out when I opened the lid to feed them yesterday. My anoles thoroughly enjoyed them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfox Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Anoles are like cockroach prison guards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likebugs Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Anoles are like cockroach prison guards. I am glad to know that, I have an Anolis equestris who probably doesn't know what she is missing. I hope that she won't have to wait long, My small colony of Discoids has yet to reproduce, but hopefully soon I will have alot more sent my way. Then it will be on. It is too bad that she only has one eye, I found her with a smashed head on October 1, 2010. She does like Surinams, but it takes alot of time and effort to fill her up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulgaris Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 More pics while I am home! I'm sure you hate to hear it, but I have been feeding off a few males each day. There are just so many of them that it is probably healthy for the colony to get rid of a few Both species are reproducing, and there are still plenty of nymphs! Here is a male and female of the orange variety. The female has an ootheca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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