Roach id please

[quirinus]

Can someone please ID these roaches?
Thx in advance

 

[The insect dude101]

Those are alien sun BEETLES [Pachnoda marginata]

 

[quirinus]

oh.. so no roaches
thank you
what a nice english trivial name

would they be suitable as tarantula feeders?

 

[The insect dude101]

oh.. so no roaches
thank you
what a nice english trivial name

would they be suitable as tarantula feeders?

The larvae are good and juicy! Breed them and then every year its like 7 horn worms in a small package!

 

[quirinus]

nice, thanks again

 

[RoachCoach]

Very pretty beetle. And not cheap either. Looks somewhat like Eushelfordia pica but more Coleoptera-ish. Roaches can be colorful and pretty too, but beetles got them beaten by eons.