Saturday, November 23, 2024

Summer Roach Updates!

Again, really behind on posts, here are some random updates that have happened over the Summer that I wanted to cover though.

First, and perhaps most importantly, my Eustegasta buprestoides had babies! 😁 They actually produced several healthy litters, and have done so over the course of the past several months. Some of the first nymphs born are already subadults, so my next generation should be maturing soon! Just wanted to update y'all on these jewels, hopefully I'll be able to make them available next year!

Now this one isn't so much of an update, but I got a nice picture of some Compsodes schwarzi oothecae by accident while attempting to photograph some Venezillo pisum, and I just wanted to dump this photo somewhere, as I think the oothecae of this species are pretty unique in morphology, and this is the best picture I've ever taken/seen of them. 🙂


Weird little things lol.

Next up, my Pseudoglomeris magnifica "North Vietnam" have done well over the Summer, though I have yet to really nail the conditions this species seems to like best I feel. Hopefully I can accomplish that this coming year, and maximize production and survival rates in my colonies. 

Anyways, here are some pictures of them that 8 wanted to dump here:






Such a beautiful species, one of the prettiest to enter culture ever IMO. 😍

My Pseudoglomeris tarsalis have exploded this Summer, which is great news, I'm hoping the same will prove true for the other Pseudoglomeris spp. I've currently got in my collection. 

Here are some pictures of the tarsalis:




A very underrated species, hopefully they'll catch on in popularity as we get more Pseudoglomeris spp. in culture, I feel these are very much the "Cubaris" of the cockroach hobby.

Lastly, in terms of random updates, my Aeluropoda insignis colony had a bit of a boom recently. They've also being throwing out some crazy large major males, one of which I couldn't help but snap some photos of. 

Here are said pics:








Such a beautiful and slept on hisser species, the pronotum morphology of major males especially reminds me of some sort of evil Disney villain design. 😄

Anyways, that does it for this post, thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see you all next time! 😉 

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