Photoshoot!

Home for spring break. The roaches are seriously too much for the size of enclosure. They can't possibly keep multiplying with that high of a pop density. There are plenty of orange females and males, so they have their own population too

There are various colors of oothecae that I can see buried in the bottom

Here is the female that I found in my spare room a while back. she has matured and is larger than all the other females. The wings are also shaped differently

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Your females have such long wings! My ladies' wings are nowhere near that long.
Interesting. My females from Tennessee have fairly long wings. Maybe the further south you go the longer the wings?

A female I found around here had short wings...

 
I'm not sure what factors control the wing length

I lifted up the food dish today to find all of these beauties :D

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I wouldn't be surprised if these were used as feeders some day... They breed so fast. @_@

 
a few chaotic males slipped out when I opened the lid to feed them yesterday. My anoles thoroughly enjoyed them

 
Anoles are like cockroach prison guards. :P
I am glad to know that, I have an Anolis equestris who probably doesn't know what she is missing. :lol: I hope that she won't have to wait long, My small colony of Discoids has yet to reproduce, but hopefully soon I will have alot more sent my way. Then it will be on. :lol: It is too bad that she only has one eye, I found her with a smashed head on October 1, 2010. :( She does like Surinams, but it takes alot of time and effort to fill her up.

 
More pics while I am home! :D

I'm sure you hate to hear it, but I have been feeding off a few males each day. There are just so many of them that it is probably healthy for the colony to get rid of a few

Both species are reproducing, and there are still plenty of nymphs!

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Here is a male and female of the orange variety. The female has an ootheca

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If you have a chance, get a picture of the structures beneath the wings of the orange species and post it on Bugguide. I have a hunch you've got virginica too but we can always use an expert's opinion. :P

 
I already did. We apparently need a microscope to see the hairs. They were not visible to the naked eye, and do not show up in my photo that I got

 
Those are HUGE if they are virginica. I think you have something else there. My male virginica are the size of Germans at about half an inch at most.

 
The die off of the males has begun. I came home today for mother's birthday and I checked on the roaches. I removed all these dead males from the floor of the colony. Not a single dead female, and about 50% of the females are carrying a oothecae.

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The males should live longer than that shouldn't they? I feel like these just recently molted into adulthood...hmm. Maybe the literature is a bit off on the male life span Eh?

 
I got to check on the colony today. All the males are now gone. There are just females, nymphs, and hatchlings left now. Yes, I did see some new born nymphs in the tank!! woo! And the bottom of the cage is littered with all different kinds of oothecae.

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And here are 3 different females which happened to be together for a good photo. There is still another kind of orange one in there which I havn't photographed

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It's very interesting to see long wings on those female P. pennsylvanica. Are most of yours like that?

Speaking of Parcoblatta, the snow is gone here and I finally went out looking for stuff the other day. I found 5 Parcoblatta nymphs (probably all pennsylvanica) about 6 feet up under the bark of dead ash trees. Makes me wonder if they overwinter there.

 
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Those look too big to be P. virginica females, do think they are P. lata or Parcoblatta americana? My female P. virginica are dinky, just around 3/8 of an inch...much much smaller than my P. pennsylvanica females which are over 3/4 of an inch.

I'm curious how well the hatching will go, I'm still waiting on my 8-10 ooths to pop. :)

 
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