Young Dubia colony

[StlGreaser]

I just got into my fledgling Dubia colony to add water and food and saw 3 females in the process of transferring egg sacks into their pouches! That must mean I'm doing something right.

 

[Theroachguy]

thats correct youll be a proud papa in about 20 days or so.

 

[StlGreaser]

Well I just got home to find a dead adult female 4 newborn nymphs and a dropped egg sack mostly full of roach larva!

Now I know they are going to die from time to time, they don't live forever. So I am not upset about that.

But why would you get 4 nymphs and the rest still be larva in the eggsack and birthed that way. Should they not have developed at the same rate? Could this have been a young adults first clutch?

I'm somewhat confused!

 

[Ihaggerty1313]

I'd like to have seen a picture on that. That's definitely strange. Don't think I've ever witnessed that before!

-Ian
http://www.theroachranch.com

 

[Theroachguy]

the four babies could have came from a different female and your only seeing four could more be hiding. the dead female could have been at the end of her life span. look around for other babies.