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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kormath" data-source="post: 110028" data-attributes="member: 4199">only if they get out.  and they don't breed as easily as the dubia.  I have a hell of a time getting my lateralis colony to breed, but my dubia colony has no issues with breeding.Plus if they do escape they're easy to catch.  Just this weekend i made the mistake of leaning the egg create inside the container against the wall, thought it would be low enough they couldn't get out but i turned around a few minutes later to see roaches running around the rim and down the side.  i spent 15 or 20 minutes catching escapees.  I figure i had 6 or 8 go under the bed where i couldn't get them, and 2 went under the desk.  caught 1 from under the desk and 1 in the bathtub last night and found 2 this morning crawling down the stairs to the living room/kitchen.  i use a tall 5 oz deli cup to catch them in and a piece of flat card board to help catch them.  Drop the deli cup over them and slide them onto the cardboard. I'm not worried about them breeding, i can't get them to breed in a controlled environment they're not going to breed loose in my house where the humidity is much lower (16-22%)</blockquote>