Photoshoot!

All of the pennsylvanica females have wings like that. I've never seen one with short wings.

I honestly don't know about the ID of the others. There are lots of different possibilities of which none can be really proven without an expert

I think I saw some nymphs hatching yesterday. Unfortunately I had to leave though. 4 more weeks until I will be home for the summer. The enclosure was crawling with nymphs though!

 
I'm home for the summer now and most of the adults in my colony have died off. There are still occasional adult females but no males. There are a lot of sub adult numphs, and TONS of hatchlings. I would go as far as saying maybe a few hundred. This is just one of the 4 egg crates...

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Its been a few months and the first of this generation are starting to reach adult hood. I saw a newly molted female yesterday.

There is an overwhelming number of them now_ must be a hundred or more. You guys WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much food they go through every night. Handfuls and handfuls of fishfood, chicken food, and fresh apple go into the cage every night and it is all gone by morning

As to if I am able to keep this colony much longer, I doubt it. I'm going back to school next month and mom refuses to take care of them again. Even if she did agree, the numbers are so large they would be unmanageable for her. So hopefully if I release 3/4 of them, she will take care of them for me and they can re populate

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Wow i wish my dermestids would populate a container like that!

BTW have you decided to cull off the colony or is it still running? You should be able to use them as wasp food look meatier then crickets.

 
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