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Akuma223

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Hey everyone, I'm new here and joined because in need Help finding a lost roach. The roach I lost was one of my female Madagascar hissing roaches about week ago and I am very concerned I will not find her. I don't know if she is gravid or not.

I tore the room she was lost in apart everyday for three days and did not find her. I checked everywhere I could including under picture frames on the wall. I also put magazines on the floor around the room hoping she might try and take cover under one. My dad is pretty upset there is a roach in the house and I nearly had a panic attack when I found she was missing. I want to find her alive but we put a few glue traps in the room where it is dark hoping she would get stuck to one :( . If we have an infestation because of my stupidity I will hate myself.

 
Put a shoe box on the floor. Place food and water in the box and leave the lid cracked. If she is in the area then she will take shelter there. Good luck!

 
Welcome.

Please remove the glue traps ASAP.

You do not need to worry about this roach reproducing in your house. She will probably show up. I have had them show up months later. One time I lost a MASSIVE male Gromphadorhina oblongonota (Wide Horn Madagascar Hissing Roach) and it showed up 3 months later in my laptop bag at a very important "official" meeting with unnamed "fancy" people at an state government building. I removed my laptop and it hissed and I acted like nothing happened. They said "Did you hear that?" and I said "Hear what?" I was glad it stayed in my bag the whole meeting

 
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Akuma223 said:
Okay thats good to know. So there is no way she could be a problem? I would really like to find her...
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She can't cause a problem but she might not live very long even if you find her alive at this point. A home is far to dry and she may not recover.
 
I hope I find her before its too late :( There isn't really any places I can get hissers easily and I'm trying to slowly(very slowly) get a colony started so I can feed my black roughneck monitor without having to buy annoying and stinky crickets. I've started to rather like my roaches....

 
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