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I just learned that aspen is a hardwood, which is good because I've got it growing around me. Are aspen leaves safe to use for roaches? Is there anything I should be wary of? Thanks!

Kyle is now four months overdue for his spring 2016 site update. I've been looking forward to seeing what new roach species he's gonna have in store, and so I check back to the site often. The site is down at the moment though. Kyle is also supposedly on a collecting trip in Arizona at the...

Heating has always been an issue for me, and I want to find a way to maximize the breeding capacity of my rearing room. So, I'm looking to acquire a list of species that have been confirmed to breed at normal room temperature. (low 60s to high 70s Fahrenheit) Notice I said I wanted confirmed...

I noticed that there's this weird yellow substance on the side of one of my hisser nymphs. Is this a mold? Should I be concerned? Can I remove it in any way? I know the pic is terrible, but it shows what's going on well enough.

I noticed one of my Parcoblatta divisa has matured, and I was wondering if she happens to be just about to lay an ootheca. She's been mature for less than a week, so it's strange to think she'd be laying so soon. I wasn't even aware a male had matured. Sorry for the terrible picture. Plastic...

I was in my rearing room this morning, and I found this guy crawling across my floor. I don't have roaches in my house, and it doesn't match any of the common pest species. It must be an escape then! The problem is, I don't keep any species with nymphs that resemble this one. I did a little...

I recently moved my Elliptorhina javanica (Which still haven't bred for me!) from a Kritter Keeper into a Sterilite plastic shoe box, and I noticed something interesting about their behavior. They were able to climb the hard plastic of the KK, and I'm sure they can make it up glass, but the had...

I was doing maintainance on my Parcoblatta divisa enclosure, when I noticed that one of the nymphs had died, and it had little white spots all over its body. The spots resembled some kind of mold. I removed the carcass, but I noticed that one of my living specimens has a few small white spots on...

I have quite a large collection of roaches now, and that means I get to witness the feeding response of many different species of roach, and it is quite entertaining! I was wondering which of your cockroach species exhibit the strangest/ craziest/ most entertaining feeding response. Which...

Therea is a genus I've been looking at for a long time, and the next time I order roaches, it is likely that a Therea species will be included. That being said, there are three (four if you count T. bernhardti, but I think a discussion that we had earlier regarding that species came to the...

After a long day, I'm glad I can settle down and finally write this post. Today I received two shipments of roaches from two different sources, and I came close to doubling the number of species I keep today. I basically spent this afternoon on a frantic search for suitable containers to house...

A few of my isopod colonies are molding. Normally I'd remove the moldy stuff, but isopods will eat the mold, so I'm not sure when I should remove it. At what point should I remove mold form an isopod colony?

I've been interested in culturing isopods for quite some time now, and as I look through the numerous offerings for isopods through the internet, I think about all the isopods I find on my property during the warmer months. The weather is warming up, so isopods are becoming common again. Instead...

A month and a half ago I purchased starter culture of Gyna centuio from capecodroaches. The nymphs I was sent were tiny. They were slightly larger than fruit flies, but not by much. I always checked on them by sifting though the substrate, and they were doing well for a whiile. The strange part...

I'm thinking about roaches I'd like to own in the future, and for those of you that keep Oxyhaloa deusta (I always read that genus name as oxaloacetic acid. Damn you microbiology!) I was wondering what you guys think. I'd keep this species as more of a pet, but I could use them as occasional...

That's right folks! Today I discovered that my Blaberus craniifer decided to "get it on" a few months ago, as today I discovered tiny nymphs running around in the enclosure. They are about 3 millimeters long, and I have noticed that they exhibit some interesting behaviors that I do not think...

I've had struggles in the past with sufficiently heating my roach colonies to optimum temperatures. I'm actually starting to get worried that the low temperatures are preventing some of my species from breeding. The temperature in my house hovers at around 68 degrees year round. . Heat pads...

I just received some new species from Cape Cod Roaches. The new species were, Gyna centurio, Hemiblabera tenebricosa, and Nauphoeta cinerea. I think they'll make wonderful additions to my collection. However, both the H. tenebricosa, and the G. centurio are incredibly small. They're about the...

First, I'm not sure if this should go in "General Blattodea Discussion" or not but, I decided to put it here because it does have to do with breeding. I've had some Elliptorhina javanica adults together for a while. I noticed this female that appears to have a much larger abdomen than some of...

I've been hearing rumors lately that a new species of Therea is coming to the US hobby. It is rumored to be Therea bernhardti, and is apparently already (rarely) available in Europe. There's also this image that I have seen (I didn't find the image, that credit goes to HisserDude!) of a mystery...