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Just had to make fun of myself a bit. I just finished cleaning and feeding all my roaches and while I had the lobster roaches out I noticed some fresh white nymphs amongst the hoard. I picked one up to see if it could fit through the mesh wire lid and dropped the little guy. He vanished. I...

By that, I mean, are we the only website that specializes in cockroaches anymore? The BCG doesn't seem to be active anymore and I can't really find much in the way of online interest other than on here and the occasional arachnid or herp site. Has the hobby really gone that far underground that...

I'm curious if anyone has ever tried to collect specimens (or breeding colonies!) over the winter months in the colder regions? I made two roach traps and because I work in the city I am going to attempt to collect some samples tomorrow night. I baited the traps with papertowel rubbed with honey...

I just got some Eublaberus prosticus and noticed their defensive odor. It's along the same line as the Blaberus discoidalis defensive odor that I notice...granted now I'm under the impression that mine may be hybrids...I wasn't aware discoids really had a defense odor...? Anyway, I'm posting...

I spent way more money than I should have today at the Hamburg show lol. I picked up a rather young Mastigoproctus giganteus, a sub adult Damon variegatus, a female Hadogenes paucidens, a very fat female Hadrurus arizonensis pallidus, 12 adult Blaberus craniifer, and 6 adult Eublaberus...

Basically, has anyone ever known of it being in culture? Scientific or otherwise this is one we should work on getting into the hobby. There isn't much information out there on it but it has brilliant coloration in my eyes. I found a small bit of info over on...

Male hisser headbutting/jousting behavior. The video isn't the best, it was taken with my phone, but it does illustrate the behavior well. They have been at it for around and hour...these two males often fight over the four females available. View My Video

I was thinking about what it must be like growing up in a home with pest cockroaches in it. I've never experienced it; my wife remembers "palmetto bugs" that occasionally found their way into her house in South Carolina...but they were peridomestic not really something like the German cockroach...

Okay so I have a tank of 4 species of which only two are matured. The matured species are discoids and dubias; I've never had issues cohabitating them before so I'm a little perplexed right now. The males of both species seemed fine until I started noticing a big decline in the male dubias. I've...

I'm just excited, I've finally found some local (backyard) Parcoblatta pennsylvanica cockroaches. These guys are supposed to live on/in old bits of wood and under bark etc...guess where I found them? Under scrap steel siding from my barn! I was out for about 2 hours digging open stumps and logs...

I've seen lots of people say they feed off their males and only leave a few in their roach tanks at any given time but I'm curious as to each individuals reasoning behind it. Are you just doing it because you read of others doing it? Are you trying to control the populations? Are you keeping...

Just out of curiosity, do any of you that keep Blatta lateralis ever actually notice the males attempt to fly? I picked up a male out of their tank today and it didn't try to fly, flutter, or even run away really. It seemed calmer than my dubia males. I never actually handled a male lat before...

Okay so...I have a tank of discoids and the other night this guy molted out and for some reason someone decided to start munching on him. I found it odd because the guys are loaded with food, water gel, and are misted regularly...anyway, something ate a wing, leg, and part of its body while it...

Hello everyone, My name is Blanton, some may know me from Arachnoboards, but this site was recommended to me by Peter from BugsInCyberspace. I really hope to learn a good bit from all of you roach experts, I'm still somewhat of a newbian to it. I have a starter colony of B. dubia, a...