YES! Finally found some!

My one female that started my colony produced over 50 offspring.

Lets see some photos of the females!!! And also the enclosure too

 
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Sorry been kinda busy, I snapped an image of one of the females at least. I can't wait to see what the other sub adults turn out to be! :D

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Came home to a third adult male today! :D

This little colony is ganna explode by fall lol, at least I hope so! :)

 
hisserman said:
Let's hope your "vfox magic" works on them lol :P
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Lol.

Ya know it's kinda funny because I don't really follow perfect husbandry suggestions yet all but my white eyed Americans and Orange heads are doing very well. (my Peppered and Roths are not matured yet so I don't count them lol)

 
vfox said:
Lol.

Ya know it's kinda funny because I don't really follow perfect husbandry suggestions yet all but my white eyed Americans and Orange heads are doing very well. (my Peppered and Roths are not matured yet so I don't count them lol)
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LOL :lol: :lol:

The roths are awesome!

 
Holy crap a different cockroach was mixed within my Parcoblatta pennsylvanica! I'm going to guess it's a "wood or field" roach but I didn't search yet. If anyone knows what this is that'd be cool, it's about the size of a German roach, about half an inch.

Sorry for the bad pics, from my phone again, lol.

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vfox said:
Holy crap a different cockroach was mixed within my Parcoblatta pennsylvanica! I'm going to guess it's a "wood or field" roach but I didn't search yet. If anyone knows what this is that'd be cool, it's about the size of a German roach, about half an inch.

Sorry for the bad pics, from my phone again, lol.

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Looks like another species of Parcoblatta to me. There's always the slight chance it could be Symploce sp. too.

 
There are a few species that look a lot like that (the orange male), aren't there? I had some for a while but strangely enough they didn't breed... Anyway, your female's wings are really beautiful!

 
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The new male (it is a male for sure, it has cerci and styli) and it's possibly a Parcoblatta virginica but I won't be sure until I photograph the "hair" structures. It's small though, less than half the size of my Parcoblatta pennsylvanica males. It's literally the size a German roach.

And to prove to Hisserman that I have "magic" with my roaches, one of my females is extending an ootheca. AND last night two more males molted out making it 5 males, two females as of right now. :)

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vfox said:
The new male (it is a male for sure, it has cerci and styli) and it's possibly a Parcoblatta virginica but I won't be sure until I photograph the "hair" structures. It's small though, less than half the size of my Parcoblatta pennsylvanica males. It's literally the size a German roach.

And to prove to Hisserman that I have "magic" with my roaches, one of my females is extending an ootheca. AND last night two more males molted out making it 5 males, two females as of right now. :)

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LOL There it is.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 
Congratz! I'm so very jealous. I have no idea if mine are even still in their enclosure, or if they found a way to escape

 
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Congratz! I'm so very jealous. I have no idea if mine are even still in their enclosure, or if they found a way to escape
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Don't worry, you will get to see your little minions soon. :)

If they escaped I'd imagine you would get a frantic phone call btw, lol.

 
Okay so another one of those smaller males molted out today and from what I can tell I have two more of that kind in there. They look like P. pennsylvanica nymphs but are obviously sub adults and less than half the size.

I still haven't figured out what they are. Zephyr, who do you send roaches off to for identification?

Oh, do Parcoblatta lay their ootheca or do they have live birth? The ooth is laying in the enclosure right now, I thought that's what they did but I wasn't sure.

 
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There are many possible species for the orange fellows. John Carlson is always willing to look at specimens, but I don't think you can ID them from the nymph stage even with specimen in hand

 
For non-native species I generally ask just about everyone I know for info on them. lol

For natives, I post them on BugGuide. As Vulgaris saidd, John Carlson generally ID's them. Shots of the males with wings spread are what he needs for Parcoblatta ID's.

Yes, they do lay ooths.

 
I put the images above on bugguide ID request and I am now going to include these. This is the under wing and leg shots that people seem to use to differentiate Parcoblatta. It's very hard for me to make much out, but if I'm looking at the correct structures (triangular) then this is Parcoblatta virginica...correct?

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The leg structure...someone mentioned something about using this as an identifier I think...meh.

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Here are some better shots of the underwing. I actually don't see much to identify it...I hope someone can help me out here, lol. I have it on bugguide too, fingers crossed.

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