Photoshoot!

Ok she got a photo for me. Its not green! Man I wish I was there to see him in person

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That's an interesting pronotum marking. I wish you could check the structures under the wings; maybe that's P. divisa?

 
I'm not going home this weekend or the weekend after, but maybe I can possibly sneak home the weekend after that and look at him myself if he is still alive. I hope he lives long!

 
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Vulgaris said:
I'm not going home this weekend or the weekend after, but maybe I can possibly sneak home the weekend after that and look at him myself if he is still alive. I hope he lives long!
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Hopefully he lives long and prospers! :P

 
So apparently there's tons of adults now! mom got this shot for me. I cant WAIT to go home and see them in person. She says that they are no longer strictly nocturnal, and they come out and just hang around on the sides of the cage like this during the evening

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I've got plenty of magic. That's how I rear very sensitive Yellowjacket queens in captivity

& I'm not sure how I will even approach these guys now. I used to be able to do whatever I wanted, without worry of an escapee. Now they are going to be all over the place!

 
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I might as well just post it in the General section whenever I get time if more than one person is interested. Might be a little bit though, I am so busy lately it is just ridiculous

 
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Just got home! I'm pretty much overwhelmed by the amount of adults in there! There's orange ones and black ones and brown ones... all sorts! Lots of mature females too. The female which I found in my spare room in December is a last instar nymph, and she is definitely something different! Can't wait till she's an adult

 
Here is a male and female from the main colony (in other words they are offspring of the original two parents)

http://bugguide.net/node/view/488737

Here is the large brown colored male

http://bugguide.net/node/view/485740

And here is one of the little orange males

http://bugguide.net/node/view/488742

I will be feeding them some apple later tonight, so I will get more photos of the entire colony then.

By the way, there are still many nymphs left! They really need a bigger cage, lol. I can't believe how many of them there are. No sign of oothecae yet though

 
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By the way vfox, I tried to replicate what you had done to manually spread the wings of the males. How did you hold the wings and take the photo at the same time? I wish I had a third arm, lol. I had to ask my dad to take photos while I held them

 
The males are ridiculously active! They are running around the cage like nuts. Flying from side to side too. In this video you can see two flights if you watch close

 
Very cool. I've never had a male try and fly yet, I've almost lost one up my sleeve though, lol.

I used easy release painters tape to hold a chilled specimen's wings open. You still need to be careful though because they are very delicate. To remove the tape put it in the freezer with the roach and all and it will come off clean. Pin down the wing near the tape when you remove it though otherwise you could pull off the wing or tear it.

Btw your little males look just like mine. I'm almost certain they are Parcoblatta virginica, jet waiting on conformation from Mr. Carlson.

 
Awesome! I got to observe a mating frenzy tonight, and I found out how they court. I always wondered about it, and was actually going to post a question about how the males go about courting. Well, I answered my own question!

You guys are probably getting sick of the updates. It will stop once I go back to school tomorrow. lol

http://bugguide.net/node/view/488834

& here's a photo of the food dish after dark. The adult males really are not interested much in eating

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