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Hisserdude

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What do you do when they get out? Are they fairly easy to catch? I love the look of them, but I'm afraid of them flying off never to be seen again.
A separate, but related question you may know the answer to; Does the Simandoa cave roach (Simandoa conserfariam) fly? I've been having trouble finding out.
Well when my first female flew out she landed on a wall and stayed there, so it was easy to recapture her using a deli cup. Now whenever they look like they are going to fly I raise my hand in front of them so they crash into my hand when they fly, haven't had any get out of their cage since that first female. :) During the day they are pretty calm, but at night you'd have to be crazy to open the enclosure.

And no, S.conserfariam does not fly. :) They can climb pretty well though.

That male started off a good deal smaller than the females and yet they've matured around the same time. Is that typical in cockroaches? Do the males go through their entire life cycle at a faster rate? If so, then I'll bet that my question mark roach that out-grew the rest is a male. That will make keeping an established colony more difficult...
In some roach species the males do grow much faster than the females, like Corydidarum pygmaea, which makes breeding hard. In A.bolliana however, both sexes seem to grow at the same pace, the males are just smaller.

I am very glad that I sent you the male since we were mistaken about the females being mature (in which case they would have also been fertile after being housed with a male if they weren't already)! :happy: At least I live at the source and will see if I can find another male this weekend. ;)
Yeah, thank god for those two males you sent me, otherwise it would be really hard to breed them lol! :p Hopefully any males you have will mature soon, if not it should be fairly easy to look for them at lights and in leaf litter.

Those Arenivaga cf. genitalis are lovely too! Are they much smaller than A. bolliana
Yeah they are way smaller than A.bolliana, adult A.genitalis females are perhaps half the mass of a mature A.bolliana female, and shorter.

How are the Lothlorien Panchlora doing? :D
They are doing good, still no babies, but Gil's females from the same batch are starting to give birth, so I should be getting babies really soon! :)
 

Hisserdude

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Latiblattella rehni:
Adult male




Polyphaga saussurei:
Probably mature female




Polyphaga aegyptiaca:
Female




Male


 

Hisserdude

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African bullet roach:
Nymphs




Arenivaga bolliana:
Males






Females








Paranauphoeta discoidalis:
Nymphs




 

SDCPs

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I am super impressed, Hisserdude! Lots of quality time went into your amazing collection.
 

Hisserdude

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I am super impressed, Hisserdude! Lots of quality time went into your amazing collection.
Thanks, I appreciate it! :) All the time and money that I've put into this hobby has been more than worth it, I love my collection! :D
 

ErinM31

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My Panchlora sp. "White" from @wizentrop have finally given me babies, hooray! :D
CONGRATULATIONS!!! :astonished:

I'm happy to see your Arenivaga bolliana look to be doing well too -- and two handsome males! :happy: I look forward to seeing what the newborn nymphs look like! :D
 

Hisserdude

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CONGRATULATIONS!!! :astonished:

I'm happy to see your Arenivaga bolliana look to be doing well too -- and two handsome males! :happy: I look forward to seeing what the newborn nymphs look like! :D
Thanks! Unfortunately it seems I have less the a dozen nymphs of the Panchlora sp. "White", and I only have one female left... and who knows if she'll give birth or not.

Yeah the Arenivaga bolliana are doing pretty good, hoping to see nymphs in a few months! :)
 

Hisserdude

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Balta notulata:
Nymph




Corydidarum pygmaea:
Adult females






Polyphaga saussurei:
Adult female




 

pannaking22

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Glad to see someone with B. notulata! That's a species I'm hoping to get someday. I really enjoyed my C. pygmaea while I had them, but the timing never really worked out with my males maturing so far ahead of my female and dying, but even when Kyle sent me an extra male and I saw them mating I never got any nymphs out of her. Maybe try again in the future because it's such a cool species.
 

Hisserdude

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Glad to see someone with B. notulata! That's a species I'm hoping to get someday. I really enjoyed my C. pygmaea while I had them, but the timing never really worked out with my males maturing so far ahead of my female and dying, but even when Kyle sent me an extra male and I saw them mating I never got any nymphs out of her. Maybe try again in the future because it's such a cool species.
Yeah, Alan gave me some in case his culture died out while he went to his trip in AZ, luckily his culture did not die out though. :) My nymphs are doing well, but this species seems to be slow growing compared to other Ectobiids I've kept.
Yeah, I was lucky enough that my male Corydidarum all matured at around the same time as the females, so they have definitely mated, however I am having difficulty getting them to give birth...
 

Hisserdude

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Arenivaga bolliana:
Ootheca






Balta notulata:
Adult! :D




Blaberus sp. "Venezuela":
Adult female




Dorylaea orini:
Adults






Ootheca


Pycnoscelus surinamensis:
Adult male (Extremely rare and sterile)


 

ErinM31

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Gorgeous roaches! I love the designs on the pronotums! :D

How did you wind up with a male Pycnoscelus surinamensis and are males always sterile?
 

Hisserdude

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Gorgeous roaches! I love the designs on the pronotums! :D

How did you wind up with a male Pycnoscelus surinamensis and are males always sterile?
Thanks! :)

Occasionally males will pop up in cultures, they are very rare though and always sterile. I just opened the cage one day and found him on the surface on the substrate! :D Glad I was able to get some pictures of him, he'll probably be the only male I see for quite some time.
 

Hisserdude

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Paranauphoeta discoidalis:
Adult female and subadult nymph




Subadult nymph




Adult female




Polyphaga saussurei:
Female carrying oothecae








Female without ootheca






Polyphaga aegyptiaca & P.saussurei comparison:
Adult females


Parcoblatta divisa:
Adult male




Parcoblatta uhleriana:
Nymphs






Parcoblatta americana "Table-top Mountain":
Adults and nymphs








Panchlora sp. "White":
Nymphs






African Bullet Roaches:
Adults and nymphs






 

Hisserdude

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Arenivaga cf. genitalis:
Adult female




Subadult male




Corydidarum pygmaea:
Newborn nymphs!!! :D






Parcoblatta americana:
Two unusally dark colored males in my colony






 
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