Sell Madagascar cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa)

Description

     This type of cockroaches lives on the island Madagascar, on tree trunks and branches of the bushes. Its main difference from other cockroaches lies in the ability to emit a hissing sound when the danger (touch). The sound occurs due to a sharp contraction of the abdomen and fast the passage of air through the breathing hole. The cockroach has no wings. The transformation is incomplete. Abdomen brown, the posterior thoracic segments and pronotum brown-black. Larvae have a different color. To pogleda molting side of larvae of the yellow-brown, pronotum blackish brown. The middle of the torso can be from light brown to brown-black. Active at dusk. Larvae and adults live together.

     To determine the sex of Madagascar cockroach, you must pay attention to the pronotum. Males on the sides the middle of the pronotum are two pronounced protrusion, resembling horns (sometimes in the form of a semicircle). In females, they are barely visible or absent.

Keeping and breeding

     For keeping cockroaches suitable capacity with smooth walls and tightly fitting lid, such as a plastic or glass insectary. Inside you must put the pieces of bark and branches, to cockroaches for them to climb. In as a substrate, you can use the land, peat, sawdust, coconut substrate, and other Larvae and adults feed on plant food. Perfect salad, fruits, vegetables. The greatest delicacy are white bread and the oranges. Food should always be fresh (no more than 2 days), in order to avoid the mold. With the constant availability of fresh, juicy fruits, drinking is not mandatory. When using tap water, you must keep it a day or two was defended, for subsidence heavy metals and chlorine. Or to use the water purifier.

     For cultivation quite 5-6 females and 2-3 males. It is desirable not to contain adult males in the same insectary, because the period of courtship they arrange fights among themselves: taking the easy territory, male furiously drives away enemies, "body" their outgrowths on pronotum, often turning the enemy. After constant battles, more weak male is under constant stress, which can lead to its death.

     Madagascar cockroaches - "viviparous", i.e., females are ootheca in the genital pouch (about 55 days), until the output from her larvae, occasionally sticking her, so to speak, to ventilate.

Price: grn/1pc.