Linziehonn
Hatchling Member
So one of my female dubias did a very odd looking thing today. She pushed out her ootheca (cluster of eggs), ran around a circle kind of crazy like, and managed to scoot it off of her. Aren't they supposed to retract the ootheca into the brood chamber? She's now just hovering around it...they cannot hatch this way can they? Does it mean I am doing something wrong in their setup since she did not retract them? It's really quite gross btw, other roaches keep trying to eat it and I keep shooing them away because I wasn't sure if this was completely normal.