I was successful in this endeavor, though they are still quite a bit trickier to get laying than at least CB C.webbii. For reference, at the same time I was keeping these smaragdinus, I was able to get around 50 larvae from a single CBB female webbii, VS 40 or so larvae from FIVE different smaragdinus. It could be due to wild smaragdinus being very picky compared to CB adults when it comes to oviposition spots, or this species may just be more picky in general. I personally really hope it's the former, otherwise long term captive breeding of these is going to be a very arduous task.
I do have a single group of larvae of this beautiful species available, so if you're up for a challenging project, feel free to email me. They're not going for cheap, but I think the price is fair considering the effort that goes into breeding this species, and I am currently the only person in the wold trying to spread CB stock of this species... 😅
Next up, a more somber update, my Pseudoglomeris angustifolia unfortunately failed to established. Only one male made it to adulthood, the rest slowly died one by one before maturing. Considering the fact that their sister species, P.semisulcata is doing very well for me by comparison, I have to chalk it up to receiving these are stressed, somewhat sickly nymphs, which, while they may have persisted for a while, ultimately lacked the health necessary to thrive. Indeed all the roaches I received in that shipment failed to establish, and at least one of them (R.imperatrix) came infected with Serratia, so I think it was just bad stock in bad health all around.
Anyways, I did manage to snag some phone pics of the adult male before he eventually passed away.
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| Teneral |
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| Fully hardened |
Certainly a unique species, and while I'm disappointed I failed to establish a colony of these, at least P.semisulcata are doing great for me, and are nearly identical to angustfolia anyways.
My Charinus acosta have been doing well, and one of my females produced a brood fairly recently! I was lucky enough to snap some pics of her carrying her brood before they dispersed.
Such a neat little species of whipsider!
I am happy to report that my Arenivaga sp. "Hesperia, CA" have bred, and I've started finding newly hatched nymphs in their enclosure! This is exciting as this is not only a new species to culture, but also evidently an undescribed one!
Here's hoping I can get these well established in the hobby! 😁
Lastly but not leastly, I got some comaprison photos between adult females of both my Arenivaga cf. investgata locales, namely the "Imperial Dunes, CA" and "Borrego Springs, CA" strains. The former is noticeably broader and more rotund than the latter, which could be chalked up to differences between localities in a species known to be rather variable, but I'd definitely like to see adult males of both localities dissected in the future to confirm the IDs of these strains...
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| Borrego Springs (L), Imperial Dunes (R) |
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| Imperial Dunes (L), Borrego Springs (R) |
Just wanted to point out and display the difference in morphology between the two localites, in case that's important information for future ID confirmations of these stocks.
I'm eagerly awaiting babies from my "Borrego Springs" stock, I've got 2 freshly matured females and one freshly matured male, so with any luck they will produce for me just as well as the "Imperial Dunes" line has!
Anyway, that does it for this post! Thanks for reading, hope everyone enjoyed, and I'll see y'all next time! 😉
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