Feel this is a dumb question that probably has a dozen easy solutions, but I’m stumped. Watched a couple of videos, but those were for catching overpopulated insects and it’s too damn cold right now any, nothing even under the rocks.
For the first time in life I have roaches I cannot beat. Always been easy, clean well, lay down boric acid, rinse and repeat when the last round of babies gets loose. Done. These fuckers have plagued me for a couple of years now.
Got a pet chameleon for my birthday. First reptile! Started in on breeding crickets in another tank, but this is also a first and will take months.
See where I’m going with this?
My desk vivarium is rocking with roly polys and I just dropped 20 crickets. I’m feeding them store-bought bug food that I mix and freeze into chunks. I’m thinking I could bait the roach traps with that, but hell, anything should do, right?
Even if/when I run out of roaches, I need a way to harvest the bugs from the desk tank.
Ideas? Something they will crawl in easily, but can’t get back out?
No tips on catching live bugs, but if you’re in a apartment situation it’s possible roaches can come from neighboring apartments. (they can even swim up pipes into your sink apparently). I had an apartment where I did the same and I still had issues. I looked under my sink and saw a big hole around where the pipe went into the wall. I bought some foaming insulation and filled in that gap. After a couple days I never saw the fuckers again. So check for any avenues where they can be traveling between units.