We have implemented a question and answer board to share our frequently asked questions with the best answers. We will post questions from our visitor but you can ask questions as well. Then we can all take a shot at answering those questions and let our visitors pick the answers they find most informative.
I hope that you like this new addition. Please comment below if you have any suggestions.
The Q&A page can be found here.
We have expanded our selection of isopods, adding Asian and Spanish Isopods to our farm. We have also added many new rare, large and feeder roaches to our breeder groups. Millipedes have also joined our farm and are happily breeding as I write this. Pillipedes are my favorite.
In all, we have 68 types of roaches, 54 types of Isopods and 8 types of Millipedes.
To accomplish this, we had to add a small building for our live roaches. It is still being organized but it is heated with 3 types of heat, electric, propane and oil, so that we have backup systems in the event of a storm or power failure.
We also hooked up a warning system that calls, emails and texts me when the temp and humidity levels fall below the perfect habitable zone for live roaches. If you want to know more about that, just comment below or send me a message.
Here is a shot of the roach building. The plants in the middle are Peace Lilies, which are great for removing ammonia from the air. We will be getting more of these for this building and some of our other buildings.
I will list our list of species below. I will do that because we are always looking for more. If you have something, not on the list, please contact us with what you have with a price. You can do that by clicking on the contact form on the left menu of this site.
The red highlighted names indicate that we are looking for more, even though we have active breeding colonies. Most of these are not yet for sale but they will be coming online over the next few months so stop back in or join our mailing list to get informed as new species are added.
If you do not see it listed, that means that we do not have it and that we may want to buy what you have. Send us what you have here.
Thank you!!
Ken
ROACHES
| Roach Name | Scientific Name |
| Orange head roaches | Eulaberus posticus |
| Surinam roaches | Pycnoscelus surinamensis |
| Horse shoe crab roaches | Hemiblabera tenebricosa |
| Lobster roach | Nauphoeta cinerea |
| Hissing roaches | Gromphadorhina portentosa |
| Giant cave roach | Blaberus giganteus |
| Six spotted roach | Eublaberus distanti |
| Goblin roach | Paratemnopteryx couloniana (red goblin roach) |
| Turkistan roach | Blatta lateralis |
| Deaths head roach | Blaberus craniifer |
| Ivory head roach | Eublaberus ivory |
| Pantanal roach | Eublaberus serranus |
| Oriental roach | Blatta orientalis |
| Banana roach | Panchlora nivea |
| Giant Green Banana Roach | |
| Discoid roach | Blaberus discoidalis |
| Pallid roach | Phoetalia pallida |
| Red head roach | Oxyhaloa deusta |
| Australian roach | Periplaneta australasiae |
| Shadow roach | Pycnoscelus surinamensis |
| Porcelain Roach | Gyna lurida |
| Giant Peppered Roach | Archimandrita tesselata |
| Harlequin Roach | Neostylopyga Rhombifolia |
| Dusky Cave Roach | Blaberus fusca |
| Hissing Roach Flat | Aeluropoda insignis |
| Halloween Hissing Roach | Elliptorhina javanica |
| Zebra Roaches | Eurycotis Decipiens |
| African Bullet Roaches | Blattidae sp. |
| Dubia Roaches Orange Spotted Roaches | Blaptica Dubia |
| Rothi Giant Roach | Byrsotria rothi |
| Wide Horned Hisser | Gromphadorhina oblongata |
| Parcoblatta caudelli (Caudell’s wood roach) | |
| Parcoblatta cf. americana (American wood roach) | |
| chnoptera deropeltiformis “Ruby Red” (Dark woods roach) | |
| Ischnoptera deropeltiformis | Dark Woods Normal |
| Parcoblatta divisa (Southern wood roach) | |
| Anallacta methanoides (Mauritian zebra-faced roach) | |
| Gyna caffrorum (Chrome roach/Ghost porcelain roach) | |
| Tiger Hissing Roach | Gromphadorhina grandidieri |
| Firefly mimic | |
| Pale-bordered Field Cockroach | Pseudomops septentrionalis |
| Milk Roach Diploptera punctata | Pacific Beetle Mimic |
| Taiwanese leaf mimic roach | Rhabdoblatta formosana |
| Centurian Roach | Gyna centurio |
| Hooded Roach | compsodes schwarzi |
| Lobe | loboptera decipiens |
| Ember Roach | Pycnoscelus striatus |
| Question marks | Therea olegrandjeani |
| Gisborne roach | Drymaplaneta |
| Lobopterella dimidiatipes | |
| Red and Black Roach | Opisthoplatia orientalis |
| Florida Skunk Roach | Eurycotis floridiana |
| No name | Eurycotis Improcera |
| SAUSSURE’S GIANT SAND ROACH | Polyphaga saussurei |
| The Hustler Roach | Eurycotis Lixa |
| Warty Glowspot | Lucihormetica verrucosa |
| Chinese Medicinal Roaches | Eupolyphagea sinesis |
| Domino Roaches | Therea petivereana |
| Ornate Velvet Roach | Deropeltis paulinoi |
| Zebra Wood Roach | Parcoblatta zebra=20 for 30$ |
| Deropeltis | |
| Extinct in the Wild Roach | Simandoa conserfariam |
| Big black beetle mimic roaches | Ergaula pilosa |
| Wingless Female Roach | pycnoscelus femapterus |
| Arizona Wood Roach | parcoblatta notha |
| Desert Wood Roach | parcoblatta desertae |
| Orin’s Zebra Roach | Dorylea orini |
| Little Penguins | |
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Scaber Gray | |
| Rollie Pollie | Armadillidium Vulgare |
| Clown Montenegro | |
| Nosy Peach | Nastium |
| Orange Vigor | Armadillidium Vulgare |
| “High Yellow” | Porcellio Ornatus |
| “Dark South” | Porcellio Ornatus |
| High Yellow Chocolate | Porcellio Ornatus |
| Porcellio Hoffmanseggi | |
| Porcellio Magnificus | |
| Smooth Isopod | Porcellio Laevis |
| Zebra Rollie Pollie | Armadillidium Macalatum |
| Giant Canyon Isopod | |
| Dwarf White | |
| Purple Isopods | |
| Dwarf Gray Stripped | |
| Rathkii | |
| Skirted Isopod | Onicus Assellius |
| PIBALD | Onicus Assellius |
| Convexus | |
| Flowery Blue Isopods | Floria |
| Powdery Orange | PP |
| Powdery Blue | pp |
| N. Cristas | |
| Dwarf | Ventillio Parvus |
| Agabiformius lentus | |
| Granulatum | |
| A. Sordidium “Punta Cana” | |
| Sevilla | |
| Ligia Pallasii | |
| Fast Isopods | ATLANTOSCIA FLORIDANA |
| Sp. Carpet | |
| High Yellow | Porcellio Haasi |
| A. dentiger: | |
| Hylo/Trichoniscus sp. | |
| Picopod | Isopoda sp. “Picopod” |
| Florida | Isopoda sp. “Florida” |
| White Out | rathkii “White Out”: |
| Pumpkin Pod | T. rathkii “Pumpkin Pod” |
| V. arizonicus: | |
| Nosy Normal | Nastium |
| Versicolor | Armadillidium |
| Thai | Isopoda sp. “Thai” |
| Corycream | Armadillidum corycraem |
| Rubber Duckies | Cubaris SP |
| Little Sea Isopod | Cubaris Murina |
| PORCELLIO SILVESTRII | |
| Armadillidium Gestroi | |
| Borneo | Cubaris SP. |
| Red Fringe | Cubaris SP |
| Blonde Ducky | Cubaris SP |
| p. Virgatus | |
Millipedes
| Bumblebee | |
| American Giant Millipede | Narceus americanus |
| Spotted Yellow Flat Back | |
| Scarlet Millipedes | |
| Flat Black | |
| Desert Millipedes | Orthoporus ornatus |
| Pillipedes | glomeris pulchra |
| Ivory millipede | Chicobolus spinigerus |
Build a Worm Composting Bin
This one is an old article that helped build Wormman.com back in the 1990’s. Anyway, the instructions for composting with redworms are still good. 🙂
https://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/projects/68/build-a-worm-bed/
Over the past few months I have worked hard to see one of my dreams come to fruition. Being someone who has a passion for insects, and exotic insects at that, I have found that there are pockets of experts, groups on social media, different sites that cater to one type of insect, for instance Isopods or Mantids, but there isn’t any one place where breeders, teachers, learners and buyers can meet up, have discussions and trade, buy and sell.
I have had this need to create that place, make it free to use and ensure that it has proper oversight, security and visibility to the hobbyist. My hope is that it will provide a needed platform for the invertebrate world and bring many of the parts together in one place.
People who raise roaches usually also raise other insects, but they have to go to different places to find their interests.
Tonight, two hours before 2018, we are announcing Invertebratenetwork.com. which includes an auction, a directory, a Forum and Bugbuffet.com, which I hope will be the Grubhub of Invertebrates. Bugbuffet is still being honed and the bugs are being worked out but you are free to check it out.
I would love to get your feedback. I envision a platform where small growers, worldwide, can start as a hobbyist and sell their excess on our platform and then scale up with us as they grow. Imagine thousands of small hobby growers listed in Bugbuffet.com and delivering composting worms, feeders, isopods, roaches, arachnids and mantids to their local areas, and also having the ability to sell nationwide via our auction and classified platform at https://invertebrateauction.com.
Please let me know your thoughts. Will you use this free service? Drop me a line here or at our forum at http://www.invertebrateforum.com.
The five ways you can sell your excess insects in 2018 are:
Ken
Learn the Basics of Composting With Worms.
My name is Ken, I own Wormman.com, and I grow and sell bugs. I started my business in 1995 after growing a large amount of red worms to fill my garden with worm castings. I love to garden and I bought some worms out of the back of a classified ad in a magazine. I grew those worms by feeding them our food scraps and the manure from our bunnies. I was soon inundated with worms, so I created more worm bins and expanded my garden. At one point, I had so many worm bins and beds that it was almost uncontrollable. I showed my wife, who does not share my passion for gardening or insects, and she said “you bought worms from a magazine. There has to be more people like you out there. Sell the excess worms.” Genius! Why didn’t I think of that?
The Internet was brand new back then, so I dialed into America Online and found that I could get 5 free websites just for being an AOL member. Those weren’t responsive websites like we have today. In fact, it was a 3 page site. The main page listed what I wanted it to say and the other two pages were for contact info and biographical information. No shopping cart, no Facebook links, no social media at all because it did not exist yet.
The last 22 years have been a roller coaster. I built the business to a million dollars in sales per year, and then crashed it, fought through a cricket virus, a mealworm shortage, 9/11, and my own stupidity. (Scroll down for more...)
Check Our Our First Site and What AOL Looked and Sounded Like in Memory Lane:
| My First Site 1995:
Nostalgia: Sounds of AOL 1995 |
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Basic Worm Composting Free Ebook:
Learn the basics of vermicomposting with this ebook. I cover the basics on raising Red Worms, European Nightcrawlers and African Nightcrawlers. I also cover composting with Black Soldier Fly Larvae. This ebook is yours free. Please download it here. I will also update you when my much bigger AND FREE 🙂 Profitable Worm Manual is released. I will also send you periodic worm farming news if you want it.
Thank you!!
Ken
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From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!!
Next Stop is Spring and Gardening and composting with worms, European Nightcrawlers, Redworms, African Nightcrawlers, and beekeeping and farming and all of the wonderful things that come with a new year.
Stay happy and healthy and we will see you in 2018.
We are glad you are here. It gets lonely just talking to worms, crickets and fruit flies all day. Please engage with me, ask me a question or post a comment. Check out our forum and our directory. If you need worms, roaches or any type of feeder insects, please try Wormman.com
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