Roach Updates and Invertebrate "Spotting"
Hello. I haven't posted here in a while, so why not give some updates? First of all, here are some pretty dominant colonies still going strong. Neostylopyga rhombifolia and Periplaneta americana. So first of all, on 25/5/2025, I went to a pretty small unused patch of grass or land to see what I could find. The area around here is quite abundant in invertebrate species, and reptiles too. I found a lot of species, such as earwigs, spiders, roaches, moths, etc. But the ones that I will be mainly focusing on are a species of roach that I collected here. Lobopterella dimidiatipes L. dimidiatipes is a small, wingless species of roach that to my knowledge isn't too commonly kept around the hobby. They are a stunning species though, having some very nice looking pattern. I collected a few of these nymphs from there, and I kept them in a little cup with sphagnum and bark. Just three days later, on the 28th of May the first adult matured. As you can see above, the mature specimens have ...