Raising feeder insects

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Cool article!!!! Catch them instead of grow them. But for the record I don't raise germanic roaches that infest the house. I raise large b. dupia S. American roaches, they don't climb, or fly, and can't survive cool temps let alone cold. We are in zone 7b, but I have never noticed or seen a roach alive outside a house.
 
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Cool article!!!! Catch them instead of grow them. But for the record I don't raise germanic roaches that infest the house. I raise large b. dupia S. American roaches, they don't climb, or fly, and can't survive cool temps let alone cold. We are in zone 7b, but I have never noticed or seen a roach alive outside a house.

Non-flying, non-climbing roaches? WOW! I never knew there was such a thing!

Juliette
 
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Cool article!!!! Catch them instead of grow them. But for the record I don't raise germanic roaches that infest the house. I raise large b. dupia S. American roaches, they don't climb, or fly, and can't survive cool temps let alone cold. We are in zone 7b, but I have never noticed or seen a roach alive outside a house.

Non-flying, non-climbing roaches? WOW! I never knew there was such a thing!

Juliette

Contrary to popular belief, only 2% of all roach species can be remotely considered as "pests". The rest of the species do what roaches do best, hide in the leaf litter in exotic areas and eat decaying matter. B. dubia is laid back, is unable to climb smooth surfaces, and in my case, are viewed almost like pets! Though of course I can't keep thousands, so they are the PERFECT protein source since my yard doesn't have that many insects.

This is an adult female.

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from the article... "I let Erik take long tweezers and feed the bugs back to the birds."

I don't think I would bother with using tweezers. Seems like taking the bottle inside the run when the girls are hungry and setting it on it's side would work fine.
 
I have raised mealworms for about 4 years now.. I started them for my ducks. Now I have chicks also, so I'll be able to feed to both.. I don't know how hubby woudl react to roaches lol... don't know it I need them as live in central texas and we have water bugs.. have oak trees so know there are plenty of them under the leaves.
I started with about 200 meal worms took several months to build them up.. did order 300 more though... since it's been a while I proably need to reorder some for fresh blood lines in them..
 
I will have to try the roach trap... The ducks love them floated in water !!!! if we find them doing yard work we catch them for them... I don't mind picking the young water bugs up.. I can't stand the grown ones... if they're in the house hubby get the job of dispatching them cause I'm standing in a chair. LOL..
 
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from the article... "I let Erik take long tweezers and feed the bugs back to the birds."

I don't think I would bother with using tweezers. Seems like taking the bottle inside the run when the girls are hungry and setting it on it's side would work fine.

Yeah, I tried that, but my seramas are so small, they look at these crawling things and panic!
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I do worms...Red worms...they go nuts..And, along with those, we always have a ton of earth worms. My man who does the digging for them is my 3yo who loves to dig for worms and give them to the chickens. It's his job! He's good at it too...We have burried dead fish guts uncooked in an area to bring about the worms. It's worked well, and it occupies a 3yo for hours!
 
Here are some pics from my growing colony


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Three young of various ages

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an adult female w/ juveniles

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Female from the front

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Adult female, she has short nubby wings

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an adult male, his wings are large, but he cannot fly
 

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