Holy orange!

[kwright]

It's feeding time today! I left a couple carrot slices in the roach enclosure and WOW.

 

[kwright]

I may have to take carrots off the list. Jack doesn't seem to like the guts and is actively eating around them lol

 

[kwright]

He dropped it on the cage haha

 

[kwright]

Turns out that big piece was a giant ball of carrot. I may have to take carrot off the menu just because it was so dry it was hard in the cockroaches digestive tract.

 

[john57]

  Yes it does look like the pieces of carrots cause a blockage of the cockroaches digestive tract. You have a smart mantis that knows if the cockroach could not breakdown the carrots neither can he.

 

[kwright]

His favorite roaches are the ones fed pears!

 

[Introvertebrate]

There’s been a lot of internet discussions surrounding carrot fed crickets as a food source for mantids.  It might be a legit concern or it might be an urban legend.