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?
maybe look up videos of “rotary fly trap”. maybe you can make something like that for roaches. it’s a genius system of overlapping comb like structures under a transparent slowly rotating lid that basically works like an airlock, closing an outer room first, then opening an inner room, so there is no escape. it being transparent also fools the insects in thinking they are still in the open, even though it’s slowly closing above them