anyone ever had a b dubia escape?

[loogielv]

i asked this question as a follow up to my earlier thread, but i feel it has merit towards it's own thread.

has anyone ever had a b dubia escape? if so, what were the circumstances? i just got a colony and had to do some serious convincing to my wife that this "cricket" can't fly, climb, escape and such. Yes, i lied and told her i was getting a special breed of cricket, because the term "****roach" inspires divorce papers i believe. (not sure why i would shy away from that

...moving on)

if one of these things make it out, not only will my lie be apparent, but i'll then be dead.
and i will blame YOU geckosunlimited...yes you.

 

[Ingo]

Yes, here and then I had dubia escapees. They are very hardy and even survive frost.
And yes, they can grow and even multiply in a house albeit at very slow rate.
There are many roaches with a much higher pest potential.
I have very bad experiences with Rhyparobia maderae.
The house I sold 3 years ago is still infested with these roaches....
Shelfordell (aka Blatta lateralis) and Nauphoeta cinera might be even worse....

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

The only dubia I've had escape have been due to my own carelessness. I've had lateralis escape too. I live in southern Va and it's warm and humid here much of the year and I've never become infested. You're MUCH more likely to have crickets infest your house than tropical roaches. Dubia reproduce fairly slowly AND they can't climb smooth surfaces. So, as long as you keep them housed properly, there's almost no chance that they're going to infest your house.

 

[loogielv]

I live in Southern Nevada - Vegas actually. It's pretty dry here, but certainly gets hot. Right now it's pretty cold (well, 50 degrees is cold to us!

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I have them in my garage, in a rubber bin, and that bin is sitting inside a bigger bin. I have blankets wrapped around the housing bin and a reptile heater under the housing bin (inside the bigger bin)

In the summer when it's warm, I'll take out the blankets and probably put their bin in a bigger bin, this way if they get out of their housing bin, they'll just fall down inside the bigger bin. I'll even put some fly paper in the bottom of that bin so i can catch the culprits that actually make it out.

Also, both bins have lids. Only the housing bin has a section cut out for a screen. I'll post pics when i get home if anyone wants to see em

edit: oh the point of this post was to ask if vegas, being so hot, gives me a chance to be infested easier than other areas, and does my housing situation seem to be ok? right now, if they get out of the housing bin, they could just walk on the blankets to the edge of the bigger bin and get out, but with so many little tunnels and crevices, I would think that any roach that does actually make it out, will burrow down into the blankets. maybe i should even drop a few pieces of cereal down there so if they get down there, they stay down there

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

If you keep them warm and fed, they'll have no reason to want to escape in the first place.

 

[loogielv]

If you keep them warm and fed, they'll have no reason to want to escape in the first place.

they dont have a need to migrate or move or explore or anything? i never realized that.

i think my husbandry situation is pretty good, and i've certainly done more than most i've seen on here, but most aren't really concerned w/ the occasional escapee. My wife on the other hand, it's like the one thing that she wont bend on. She's really great and deals with all my quirks, hobbies and obsessions, but bugs is her "thing" if you will