Roachbread's Bug Blog

 Hello everyone. Welcome to another post In this post I'd like to give an update on my harlequin roaches (Neostylopyga rhombifolia) The last time I gave an update was a few posts ago, this post And since May, the harlequins have grown a lot! August September In September most of them were still in the small orange stage, but some were already an instar away from maturing. October (The time I posted this) Here's a pretty low quality phone photo of the few adults that have just matured a few days ago. You can tell by the vestigial wings that they have matured, and as shown in the 2nd picture there are still some individuals in the small orange stage. And that's pretty much all the updates for now, thanks for reading and goodbye 👋 

 Hello everyone. Welcome again to another post. Recently, I got some Viviparidae species assumed to be Filopaludina sumatrensis. Viviparidae sp. I got about 15 specimens, and they did look like some sort of Filopaludina. I then noticed their underside, which looked nothing like a Filopaludina at all Viviparidae sp. They are some type of Viviparidae, but they're probably undescribed. Here's a view of their shell They're absolutely gorgeous though, and I think my snails are going through something called "stress birthing" This isn't really a good sign because it's an indicator of stress, but from what I've seen they should be adapting quicker hopefully because this comes from moving into a new environment. But the good side is there are babies as a result from this. Here are some pictures  And that's pretty much all I got to say for the Viviparidae. But together with these, I also got some more interesting freshwater snails. Pomacea canaliculata  Pla...

Hi everyone. Welcome to another post. In this post I want to share how I keep my Venezillo parvus isopods, also known as Little Pillbugs. Range So where is this species from? V. parvus range from the USA, to Europe and possibly Asia. It isn't confirmed if the ones in Asia are really V. parvus though, and I collected mine here in my hometown in Indonesia so I'll just call them Venezillo cf. parvus. But they usually thrive in warm and humid environments.  Description Venezillo parvus is a rather small species of isopod. They are about 5mm at their largest, and are able to conglobate. I have the wildtype variant, but there are some morphs out there that possess striking patterns, such as Dalmatian where it's something like a dairy cow, white with black blotches. But in my opinion, the wildtype are also quite beautiful. They come in two colors. One is like the one shown above, which is a much apply a more dull-colored and greyish body, while I've seen some with more vibrant...

 Hi everyone. Welcome back to another post, after quite a while of not posting. I recently got a shipment of a few species of roaches. One of them was Blattella asahinai, and I got about 15 individuals. I spotted a few odd nymphs and this black adult, which was much larger and has a different morphology compared to asahinai. I initially thought this was Scalida latiusvittata, which is a species I've kept before due to the patterning and color. But then I checked out some of my latiusvittata pictures which revealed my specimen was much larger than latiusvittata. A few days ago, I was checking out iNaturalist to identify my nymphs, they looked like they would be Hemithyrsocera, so I checked out the Hemithyrsocera genus on iNat. I immediately saw some images of a roach that looked almost basically identical to mine, and the image was labeled as "Hemithyrsocera simulans".  After seeing that, I tried to find a paper online about simulans, but the recorded range for this specie...

 Hi everyone. I'm currently on vacation in Seattle, where today I went to a nature reserve called Schmitz Preserve Park. Schmitz Preserve Park sign The reserve is located in the West of Seattle and is a 53 acre park around 15 blocks east of Alki Point and Beach (where I found some sandhoppers!). I went down some stairs to see this! Definitely didn't disappoint 😁  I was very sure that I would find a lot of invertebrates here. When I found the first log that I could flip, I found this possibly Ambigolimax valentianus and some Porcellio scaber. But there was one that did sparked my interest There was this one scaber that had a faint calico pattern. I've never personally seen P. scaber before because they aren't found in my country and its hobby stock, but looking at pictures of the wild types I don't think many specimens are like this one. Pretty cool to see I also saw this Condica illecta perching on a small rock. After that, I decided to go further. As I went furthe...

 Hello everyone. Today I had just received a package containing some really cool roach species. All three species are locally sourced by the seller, occuring in South Sumatra.  This species is more of a burrower and a more secretive species, and was said to mimic beetles. This is Ergaula cf. pilosa, a larger species of Ergaula said to reach about 3-4cm in length.  Ergaula cf. pilosa cup  This was the cup I received them in, I got around 20-ish nymphs and a single adult male which could have matured in shipping or with the seller. I did find a few pretty large female nymphs, so I'm expecting to find some adult females popping out soon, and hopefully producing more nymphs. Ergaula cf. pilosa enclosure I am keeping them in this 35x26x18 (cm) storage tub with around 5cm of substrate (top soil) with some leaf litter, sphagnum, and locally sourced bark. Ergaula cf. pilosa possibly female nymph Next is also a mimic, but this time a batesian mimic. (Mimicking a more harmful ...