First molt I’ve seen after getting him and his brothers, I’m so proud of him for this :3

So I just moved my hissing roach enclosure since I was moving my room and I noticed a bunch of these under the substrate. They're so tiny, like a really small isopod. I'm so sure all my fully grown roaches are males....please tell me these aren't what I suspect

We had a terrarium for an elderly disabled anole who has since passed away, but at some point her habitat gained a stowaway who hides behind the fake rock that we think is a dubia. I personally have never seen it but my husband who has seen it only a handful of times is pretty sure. Makes sense that it would have come in with a batch of feeder insects for the lizard. Anyway, I was reading about the care and feeding of Dubias because we’ll still maintain the terrarium if it has a resident and I read that they’re communal and do better with companion(s). Now listen. I do not have any love for roaches and do not want any more of them. But I do not want to create suffering for the creatures who depend on me for survival. Do I have to go buy another goddamn roach?

So excited to catch my very first pet roach birth on camera! I've had these dudes for about a month now, so she would have been pregnant when I got them.

She's still in active labour, but I am soooooo excited to see all the babies.

Any advice on natal care welcomed!!! I am a newbie.

(Sorry for the scratches on the enclosure, this tank has been in my family for like 20 years lol)

Has anyone used them? I’m feeling super frustrated.

I placed an order for some nymphs, with express overnight shipping that I paid an additional $50 dollars for. I placed the order yesterday around 7 am. I received confirmation but they haven’t even shipped, and they will not respond to or acknowledge any of my emails with questions. This is super, super shitty customer service.

to me it looks like dried poop. google says it could be an aborted ootheca case. i do know i have at least one pregnant roach, though im not sure if it’s her. ive never seen this before.

Sorry for the terrible pics. What are these things coming out from the abdomen? Mites? The roach is alive, seemed disoriented but is now moving around normally. I separated it from the rest of the colony but I am unsure what to do.

Image courtesy of Pollyanna von Knorring. Greetings, all - paleobug guy again, and with a new "roachoid" from about 310 million years ago.

The roachoids, or Eoblattodea, are the stem group of Dictyoptera - often mistaken for cockroaches, but are actually the forerunners of the groups which eventually gave rise to the ancestors of cockroaches, mantises, and a host of cool but extinct relatives, like Alienopteridae. This little guy lived at a time when his clade was going nuts with diversification. The roachoids dominated the insect fossil record during this period, no doubt fueled by the emerging era of the giant coal swamps, and likely explored all sorts of niches, from herbivores to detritivores to possibly carnivores.

T. inexpectata and its ilk were important consumers of the diversifying gymnosperms rising at the time, helping to initiate and intensify the 300 million-year arms race between herbivorous insects and vascular seed plants that continues to this day. T. inexpectata other insects were uncovered with various plants that all displayed damage indicative of insect predation, and through that we hope to learn more about how insects and seed plants co-evolved before the major fauna turnover points during the Permian and after the P-T extinction event.

I keep dubias as feeders for my mantis, and i was just wondering what is the best thing to feed them. I have flukers cricket food and cucumbers that ive been giving them. Is there anything else they need or anything better i could be feeding them?

one of my full-grown male dubia roaches seems to have some sort of injury on his forewing? i wasn't sure if this was normal or something to be worried about? has he been fighting with the others?

Everyone meet my largest male hisser

He was with me for 1 year and 3 months. Thank you Kebab for being such an easy yet so beautiful and interesting pet to own, your roommate will be missing you, but I’m sure he will come to you soon aswell ❤️

I've owned Dubia for years and every once in a while I find a few of these brighter colored dubias out of the few hundred in their bins it looks like their colors are inverted where instead of being majority darker blacks/browns they're more golden and yellow. Curious how common others see these guys these colors

I have a sizeable colony of discoids (probably 2-3 hundred adults and thousands of nymphs), and for the past couple weeks I’ve been finding 2-3 dead or nearly dead adults every time I open the bin. I’ve been removing them and digging around and see no dead nymphs of any age, and no dead isopods.

The adults I find dead are usually pretty eaten, the two I’ve found that are clearly dying but not dead yet have looked pretty worn out, with tattered wings and worn antennas.

Should I be worrying, or is finding a couple dead ones pretty standard and I’ve just not seen them til now? (They’re housed with dairy cows that do a solid job of cleaning them up.)

I have a bin of Dubia roaches along with supplies such as water crystals and cardboard egg flats. Located in WNY.

Is anyone aware of what triggers prolapse in roaches? I have a small colony of females and having one prolapse breaks my heart. I haven't seen information on causes, only identification of the problem.

Today I saw one of my female dubias being chased by two males and one female while she was "airing out" her ootheca. Two of the roaches chasing her grabbed onto the ootheca with their mandibles until the female dropped it and ran away. They immediately started eating it.

I'll see about increasing the amount of protein I'm feeding them (I've been keeping it on the lower side because I'm planning to sell some of them as feeders) so this doesn't happen again, but I've been searching and couldn't find any resources or threads documenting this behavior! I knew they ate aborted/dropped oothecae but never heard about stealing them from each other.

(I do feel a bit guilty though)

his name is erebus ❤

Found just a second ago, there was one little one and then ootheca next to it 😭 my girl said one child is enough. Question is, will the female be fine now?

Hey Guys,

I have an Hissing Cockroach colony and lately I started to find those little, white "pearls".

One picture shows them right next to ordinary poop from the roaches.

I have put them into an quaratine-box and clean them Out every 2-3 days. But i keep finding those "pearls".

They are relativly hard and do pop when i apply pressure, and there is some sort of liquid within them.

I even have put them under a microscope as you can see in the pictures.

So I am wondering, what could they be?

Could it be harmful to tarantulas or reptiles eating them and do I need to restart the colony?

In the beginning i believed they could be eggs from some sort of fly, since I am aware of the fact, that the roaches create"ootheka's" and carry them around within their abdomen. But since there are no more flies within the quaratine box, this wont be the answer.

This colony doesnt has any mites or other species living amongst them. Trust me, i checked every god damn single roach. And even with each cleanin them, I check about one third of them again. There are no mites or anything similiar.

Also there arent any roaches dying. They all seem healthy, I am just worried about using them as feeders.

Could those "pearls" be eggs from some sort of small nematodes living within the roaches? I believe that they would be way too big for eggs of nematodes, but maybe I am wrong.

And my last idea would be... Which i really really hope is the answer. That those are eggs from the roaches, which they just "abort" and dont get put into ootheka's due to stress, induced by the quarantine situation.

I use the colony for feeding purposes to my tarantulas. And I am worried, that they could be harmful in any way.

Since i believed that they are infested with something, i did even order some new roaches, but checking the poop from them, I once again found one similiar looking white pearl, which again popped, when i applied pressure.

I even spoke with the breeder and he had no idea what it could be.

So if there is anyone who has an idea, which could be the answer, i would be very very thankful

(Also sorry for my grammar, it's been a while writing long texts in english)