Jump to content

White/orange Blaberus instars


Pulk

Recommended Posts

This persists for the whole instar; it's not just a fresh molt look. It happened to a largish B. giganteus nymph earlier this year, and I just found a smallish B. craniifer nymph with it. This nymph definitely looked normal before the molt, so I'm guessing it just lasts one instar (even if they can molt in this condition). Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on the cause?

B. giganteus

blab-1sm_zps8ae93fdb.jpg

B. craniifer

crannymphsm.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...
  • 3 weeks later...

I'm gonna be watching this thread. Keith, which species did you get?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

This persists for the whole instar; it's not just a fresh molt look. It happened to a largish B. giganteus nymph earlier this year, and I just found a smallish B. craniifer nymph with it. This nymph definitely looked normal before the molt, so I'm guessing it just lasts one instar (even if they can molt in this condition). Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on the cause?

B. giganteus

blab-1sm_zps8ae93fdb.jpg

B. craniifer

crannymphsm.jpg

I'm pretty sure this is the same one, although this nymph appears female and strange white coloring. If it's not then I did see him and he is normal coloring already and healthy.

post-117-0-55694700-1358380949_thumb.jpg

post-117-0-63752300-1358380953_thumb.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...

This persists for the whole instar; it's not just a fresh molt look. It happened to a largish B. giganteus nymph earlier this year, and I just found a smallish B. craniifer nymph with it. This nymph definitely looked normal before the molt, so I'm guessing it just lasts one instar (even if they can molt in this condition). Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on the cause?

B. craniifer

crannymphsm.jpg

I found him! He's doing very well! post-117-0-62418400-1363240520_thumb.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 months later...

Normal handsome craniifer... Huh.

That yellowed female looked like she got injured, though.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Normal handsome craniifer... Huh.

That yellowed female looked like she got injured, though.

Yeah pretty cool how something looking not normal ends up turning to your ordinary black wing craniifer!

Yeah that female did have an injury but eventually recovered also

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...