Louisiana roach hunting

Tenevanica said:
Has anyone ever tried baiting for roaches? I've never tried, but I bet multitudes of species would be attracted to beer and molasses baits. A mixture of wine, yeast, and fruit might also be effective. If anyone lives down South, it'd be interesting if you would tell us what baits attract roaches.
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I'll try this. Sounds fun!

 
7tisix said:
I found it, Euthlastoblatta gemma, it looks like a cricket.
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Well that's a stretch of the imagination, but whatever floats your boat! :lol: Though now that you mention it, the markings do look a little like a house cricket's markings.

It's a rather hard to breed species, and I don't think anyone has been successful with them yet. If you do want to try to keep them I would make note to observe their natural habitat and try to mimic that in captivity as close as possible.

 
I always though of them as a kind of cricket because they look so much different than German and American cockroaches. I see them around. I'll note the surroundings next time I see one.

 
7tisix said:
I always though of them as a kind of cricket because they look so much different than German and American cockroaches. I see them around. I'll note the surroundings next time I see one.
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Ah I see, they do look very different from the American and German roaches.

How common are they around you? I have always been under the impression that these were quite rare.

 
I wouldn't say I see them very much. I never really looked for them either. More in the summer months I have noticed them while weed eating or mowing the grass. I wonder if the ootheca needs a special requirement like mud or 95% humidity for a period. The humidity gets pretty high here often.

 
It gets hot too. Like 95 degrees most the day in the summer with 95% humidity on the worst of them. Lows in the high 70s too.

 
Yes I would suspect that they would like it warm and very humid, though they may tolorate room temps.

 
7tisix said:
I wouldn't say I see them very much. I never really looked for them either. More in the summer months I have noticed them while weed eating or mowing the grass. I wonder if the ootheca needs a special requirement like mud or 95% humidity for a period. The humidity gets pretty high here often.
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If you see them while mowing the grass occasionally, then I would consider this species kind of common where you are in Florida. But in other states farther north they might be rare.
 
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I did a little hunting today. What is the easiest way to share pictures? I have quite a few pics of various insects, lizards, slugs, etc. Spring like temperatures today.

 
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Nice! Lots of cool inverts (and vertebrates, verts?) there! FYI, that cockroach nymph with the red backdrop seems to be a Blattella species, possibly one of the non-pest ones. :)

 
Hisserdude said:
Nice! Lots of cool inverts (and vertebrates, verts?) there! FYI, that cockroach nymph with the red backdrop seems to be a Blattella species, possibly one of the non-pest ones. :)
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That red backdrop is actually an orange Home Depot 5 gallon bucket. That dude was fast, so I scooped the surrounding leaves and sticks and threw them in the bucket. I let him go. Too fast to try to keep him lol.

 
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