Escaped dubia roaches

[Xaila]

I have no idea how it happened but it looks like a few of my dubias escaped into the house. My mother found an adult male chilling out in the bathroom this afternoon and almost had a heart attack..

Is there any chance that these guys will start breeding in the house? I know that they're a tropical species but it ~is~ summer and not every area of the house is air conditioned. They're a lot less noisy than whenever I've had escapee crickets but I'd rather not have a bunch of monster roaches running around. Can anyone offer me any reassurance that I didn't unleash roach hell on my house? Haha.

In the meantime I'm gonna vaseline the sides of their tub and hope the cats will kill off any other stragglers...

 

[OnlineGeckos]

They could totally breed, but your only hope is that no adult females escaped. Because if you simply had some males escaped due to their wings (they can hover a bit), then there's no harm no foul. Adult females have no wings so if they didn't get out, you're fine.

 

[Xaila]

What I think might have happened is that one or two were hanging out on the bearded dragon's driftwood and climbed off when I took it out of his tank to clean it over the weekend. I don't feed off adult females so hopefully none of those got out.

 

[Mclaughlin]

On the bright side it could be months before you know lol