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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 65942" data-attributes="member: 3190">As some might know, I had one Dubia roach male left from a batch of feeders I over a year ago. There used to be a female, too, but she died last winter. In between I had been feeding Red Runners, too, and in one of the boxes I found a Lobster roach male. Because he looked so different I decided to keep him and put him in with my Dubia pair. Straight away he seemed to bond with the Dubia male and the female was kind of excluded from their little twosome. Yesterday, I bought another batch of Dubai roaches (mainly because I'm fed up with the "Silent" crickets' chirping) and put them into the roach tub. This morning, instead of enjoying the new female company, I found my Dubia male huddled up with his Lobster friend. I then googled if roaches recognize each other and form bonds. Turns out they do. It's too cute (those 2 will never be fed - until they die of natural causes):<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17839642" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17839642</a></blockquote>