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After reading this short blog http://sandgroper14.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/heres-the-deal-with-the-cockroach/ it made me curious about what, if any, daytime active cockroaches we have here in the states...or at least in the trade. Most, if not all of mine appear to be nocturnal and are the most...

I've been thinking about keeping local native harvestmen (Opiliones), not the cellar spiders but the single bodied thread legged forest dwellers. I have been noticing recently that they are rather varied around my area, I know of at least four different looking (and I assume different species)...

I know it's not the best thread title because American roaches are not native but, meh. Anyway! I just wanted to start a thread about our dear friend Periplaneta americana, aka the American cockroach. I personally have two colonies; one colony of regular morph and one of the white eyed strain...

I talked to zephyr about this a bit ago but without much in the way of success. I have a healthy colony of Periplaneta australasiae, probably one of my favorite roaches so far...but...their babies are ridiculous! I have a 4 inch thin to thick at the top Vaseline barrier and it keeps the adults...

So I've started keeping honey bees recently and the other day I had my first odd bug out roaming in the unbuilt outer frames of my lower brood box. It was a nice large female Parcoblatta pennsylvanica. My wife was with me at the time and knocked it into the grass and let it scurry off. I found...

Honey Bees that is. I just ordered my first hive-box for my new apiary. I should be getting an order of Italian honey bees by mid month and hopefully have the hive up and running a few days after. I'm pretty excited for it, I've always enjoyed honey bees but never had the land to own any. Now I...

And by that I mean wolf spiders. :) I've already had 3 large females that needed removed this week and will likely see dozens more. I never need to hunt for them, they find me easy enough, lol. Hogna aspersa (Lycosa) are what I'm finding...I'm pretty sure anyway...could be carolinensis but I...

I just got home from a day of teaching to find my first P. americana ootheca FINALLY hatched out. It must have been just a bit ago because these tiny tiny babies are white as cotton. I'm hoping two of the "longer" ootheca turn out to be P. brunnea but I'll need to wait for them to hatch, they...

Well it's been quite a long time but my peppered roaches have finally reached sub-adult stage. Problem is my first molt to adulthood ended in being stick in the exoskeleton and dying. I only have a few of these guys and I really want them to mature correctly. My tank is around 72-75F and...

I know, totally a troll headline, lol. Seriously though I just found my first ever cockroach inside my house that I didn't put there lol. It was a Parcoblatta species, likely pennsylvanica because of it's size. It's a medium sized nymph and was walking on the landing at the top of my stairs near...

Sorry just needed to vent. I was about to go to work and some (expletive) broke into my wife and I's cars. They only took our gps and left all our CDs and sound systems alone. Grrrrr. Anyway, so yeah, that was my morning. How are you guys? Lol. :\

I just got a nice sized order of Periplaneta americana in today and I noticed a few of them are quite dark. Does anyone know a better way that color variation to tell the difference between Periplaneta americana, fuliginosa, and brunnea? It would be great if a few P. brunnea or fuliginosa snuck...

That's right, I want your pest species! I'm looking for a group of about 10-15 adult Periplaneta americana (The American Cockroach) so I can start a breeding colony. Periplaneta should be okay shipping in winter, two day method, but I will request a 72 hour heat pack for shipping as I want them...

I thought this was interesting so I figured I'll drop it here for you guys to assess. http://www.abolitionist.com/darwinian-life/invertebrate-pain.html

I just saw a show called Infested on Animal Planet and they had a bit on cockroach infestation. This is when it hit me how different my opinion of cockroaches is from the general public. I thought, man, I wish I could have all of those. Especially the shot with like 1000 Periplaneta americana...

I noticed that one of my other Hisser females was giving birth last night and two or three nymphs were already running around. I came back three or so hours later and noticed no more babies and what appeared to be immature or half birthed babies hanging out of the ootheca that was partially...

I awoke today to about 30 baby Hissers roaming around their enclosure. Yay for roaches for Christmas lol. Once the others have babies like I said, overrun! Lol. :)

Okay so I've always had issues heating my inverts and I think I've figured something out that may be of use. Metals absorb heat, but shiny metals reflect light and holds heat. Now, I needed something easy to shape and apply near a red bulb to reflect the light heat and absorb/maintain the...

I found a nice stack of ooths in my Blatta lateralis tub today...I'm sure I missed a lot because this was only what was laying on the surface...so many babies are ganna explode out of these shortly lol. Oh well. :)

As I said in my last post (sorry for making so many new topics today lol) that I was cleaning all my cages this evening. Well, I noticed an odd roach in my mixed roach tank and had a question about it. The tank contains Blaptica dubia, Blaberus discoidalis, Byrsotria rothi, and Archimandrita...