Dubia Dropping Sack?

[slove829]

I was adding some food to a newly acquired colony and as I was doing this, a female jumped onto a carrot and dropped into her back and started doing this...

http://youtu.be/VW4_per016k

Did she just drop her sack? If you watch the first few seconds of the video, she obviously dropped her sack, but what is we doing afterwards? Is this the process they go through to drop a sack? You can see in the pic, the sack is to her right (your left), I'm afraid she may not take it back in. :/ This is my first colony so I've got no clue what she's doing...

Temps and humidity is correct, which brings me to another question... Is a 5-6 roach die-off common in a small mixed colony of 130ish...? I got them last night and since then I've found about 5 dead ones. Would love to know if I'm doing something wrong. I'm keeping them in a white sterilite drawer/tub and it's open about an inch for ventilation. I have a UTH on the back wall (would under be better?) and feed an old ground cricket feed I used with my cricket colonies consisting of dog food, cat food, wheat bran and bran cereal, whole cat food and water cubes. Also whatever veggies you see in the pic... I've got crickets in my bigger bin and once those are fed off the dubias will go in that bigger bin but for now I thought this would be ok... Here's a pic of what's protruding from her behind...

 

[slove829]

I went ahead and put them in their permanent home, a large Rubbermaid... I'm hoping this will solve the die off issue. I'm figuring with them being in the smaller bin the temp and/or humidity was less consistent. It's now been consistently @ 88.7F for the last half hour and haven't checked humidity but Im sure it's ok as I have fruit, veggies and water cubes in there.

She did end up walking away from the egg sack so yes she did drop it. Im guessing when she fell off the carrot, she freaked out and dropped it from stress/being spooked. I'm still curious though what that "bubble-like" thing was that she kept "blowing up" every few seconds. She laid on her back doing that for almost an hour so i got worried and flipper her back over. She stopped doing it as soon as she was flipped over. Im sure once I fixed the enclosure things will turn out better. I'm just still kinda curious what it was she was doing in the video.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Hi S, the bubble like thing is her fat walls, basically her insides. I watched the video and it seemed that she may have been crushed because that was only part of an egg sac. It seemed she was having a difficult time getting the rest out. Stress, humidity, age and getting squished are ways for a female to loose and egg sac. Hope this helps....