7/25/2023: Locality Parcoblatta notha doing well

by Kyle Kandilian · July 25, 2023

This summer has been a flurry of work, stress, and planning for the future. I have finally gotten to checking on most of my collection and despite some reasonable losses (losing half of a colony of 500 Neoblattella isn’t the most crippling thing) some things have been doing very well thanks to better enclosure prep. Among those are my Parcoblatta which I finally have gotten a knack for (and which I will talk about at length in a future blog post).

In September 2021 I collected 2 Parcoblatta notha nymphs while straddling a rotten pine log over a gushing wash in the Chiricahua mountains. I’ve maintained an extremely remote locality cross of the species since about 2018 but getting enough from any one locality has proven difficult in the past. Hedging my bets I sent this pair off to Alan Jeon and he didn’t disappoint with getting an F1. He sent some of these back to me and they’ve matured and begun breeding.

Compared to my locality cross these seem bigger and longer winged, though the sample size isn’t the best. I’m hoping to get these up on the site with the overhaul this fall along with all of the other Parcoblatta I’ve been wrongfully depriving from the spotlight.

Parcoblatta notha strain whose locality name will likely be a mouthful like “Near Southwestern Desert Research Station, Portal, AZ”

-Kyle