Follow along our adventure as we make the transition from corporate city life to the world of natural farming. Each day brings a new experience and brings us to a deeper understanding about the life and spirit that made America great. At our farm we do our best to give the animals we raise a natural, free, happy, stressfree lifestyle. Our mission is to learn and share how to manage a farming operation that is both profitable and humane.
This week we finally have adult blaptica dubias! We found 3 mature males, ready to mate and produce lots of natural high protein bird feed :)
Below is a picture of the fourth male... We caught him in the act of molting into his manly mature skin.
This bug project is getting exciting! I predict that, barring any accidents, we will have a large second generation of roaches and mealworms getting ready to scale this into the next phase.
I had to google for "blaptica dubia", and got a good laugh when it came up cockroaches -- even if the Blaptica genus turns out to be only a distant cousin of the common cockroach.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest daughter spent way too much of her time 2 apartments ago, trying to exterminate the common cockroach from their 9th floor living quarters. I think she would have appreciated the notion of trying to raise the things specifically to be eaten... :-)