Roachbread's Bug Blog

 Hi everyone, welcome back to another post. In this post I'll just be showing some updates and stuff. First up is my Panesthia angustipennis, the larger nymphs seem to be growing fairly quickly. I'm sure these nymphs are only a few instars away from maturity, and I've already had a sudden adult boom in my colony. Here's some adults taking cover in a log that they basically hollowed up. This log has way more openings than showed in this picture by the time I wrote this, and they are really consistent in eating rotting wood and stuff, hence where they are found naturally. Next up is a species I don't think I have showed on the blog site before. Periplaneta australasiae. I took these pictures quite a while ago of a pair I received recently as a bonus when ordering some other species. By now I unfortunately have lost the pair, as they have died. Lucky enough, they mated and laid 2 oothecae. So now I have a few dozen nymphs running around. I can confidently say that ther...

 Hi everyone, welcome to another short post. I'm going to give some updates on my inverts, and some species have been doing quite well. First up is an unknown Dorylaea sp. that I received on October. This colony unfortunately died leaving one female, but she is nonstop laying oothecae! Recently I had some of the oothecae hatch, and there is now a small litter of 10-15 tiny nymphs. Dorylaea sp. nymph It's super hard to get a good picture due to their tiny size and fast speed, but that's the best picture I could get. Happy that these have bred, and I hope that these will grow to a thriving colony. Next up, I've rehoused my Thelyphonus sp. "Red Back" to a better enclosure because the previous one had a mold outbreak. Here's the enclosure. I might add some live moss to make it look better when I do get some. And lastly to wrap it up, I've had my Viviparids that have not yet been identified produce a second litter of hatchlings.  I have a bunch of these guy...