I am having a break from work (still feeding & cleaning the bugs continually!) until Monday 6th January. I will catch up with emails and orders upon my return. Royal Mail is just too unreliable to post my precious bugs during December. You are welcome to call and collect before Christmas by prior arrangement.
Happy Christmas & Best Wishes for the New Year x
I will resume posting orders from Monday 6th January 2025 (weather permitting)
Common Name: Butterfly Cockroach
Scientific Name: Gyna centurio
Status: Captive Bred / New species 2024
Food : Cockroaches will eat a range of fruit, veg, cereals and kitchen scraps.
Note : A tub of cockroaches will always contain enough individuals to start a breeding colony. The number in a tub varies depending on size of species, stage of lifecycle and how many I have in stock. (minimum 12, when I am over-run with a certain species, a tub will contain as many as I can fit in!)
How I keep mine
I keep my Butterfly cockroaches in plastic boxes (24 litre or 32 litre, opaque, purchased from Tesco). I make air holes in the lid with my little soldering iron, great for burning the right size holes through plastic. I use peat, coir or vermiculite on the base and add leaf litter (Oak, Beech or other hardwoods) and pieces of bark or egg trays to hide under. I am discovering more and more that many cockroaches will eat some leaf litter and seem to enjoy it but it isn't strictly necessary as I kept cockroaches successfully for many years without giving them any leaves. I feed them once or twice a week. I find banana and cucumber are favourites.
I place my boxes on a shelf with a heat mat on it, I use a strip heat mat (15cm wide) and this covers part of the base of the box (several boxes can fit on one long mat). Like most bugs it is a good idea to give them a dry and a damp area to choose from. I find the area above the heat mat is dry and the area not covered by the heat mat is a little more moist. I use plastic boxes for my cockroaches as I have lots of species and don't have the space to keep them all in individual tanks but of course they do equally well when housed in a plastic or glass tank and are much more visible.
I find both sexes of the Butterfly cockroach can run fast and climb well, the males also like to fly so take care when you open the lid!
Butterfly Cockroach (Gyna centurio) Per Tub
- Product Code: 935
- Availability: 2
- £14.99
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£9.99