Small black worms found in cockroach container

Chameleonhavinman

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So I recently got a new batch of dubia roaches and a few days into feeding them the batch I found one of these tiny black furry worms in the container living in one of the cockroach piles that cockroaches form themselves into. I found another one that’s smaller but they look like something that would be dangerous. Anyone know what they are??
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Dermestid beetle larvae. They'll clean up after your roaches, and are especially good at removing dead ones! As Snitz mentioned, they make good clean up crew (CuC) for roach colonies.
 
I find those in with crickets all the time, I put them in my vivs, they pupate into flying beetles
 
They are dermestid. They will attack molted roaches in large numbers and can overwhelm pretty fast. I personally would not use them. They stress out roaches by simply being around. Having a few with something hardy like dubia probably won't make much of a difference, but for someone like me trying to maintain healthy populations in my colonies, definitely not worth it.
 
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