Two days ago I cleaned out my Dubia colony and separated the babies. Today I went to replace the food for the babies and noticed VERY small, tan or white, ant looking bugs. Are they are cause to worry?
I have been raising it for quite a bit now. A family member had too many and gave us part of her colony. I will try but they are really small.Is this an established colony you've been raising, or did you recently buy it or buy dubia to add to it?
Any chance you can get a picture of the bugs?
-Brandon
Is this an established colony you've been raising, or did you recently buy it or buy dubia to add to it?
Any chance you can get a picture of the bugs?
-Brandon
Yeah it does look like an ant but it’s smaller than the ones around my place and I’ve never noticed them before. Hopefully they’re just there for clean up.It might be the picture, but what you have circled looks like an ant to me lol.
If you recently introduced new roaches from another colony, it's possible you got some critters that were part of the other colony. Typically these are just cleaner crew insects, but what you have pictured doesn't look like any cleaner crew i'm familiar with.
-Brandon
I’ve only seen a few but that’s in the babies container which is much smaller than the adults. I will try.Are there a bunch of them? I'd be inclined to just smash them as I see them personally.
-Brandon