This is the email I sent in response to Bill's discursive email.
Bill,
It is simply a case of inadequate and lacking customer service plain and simple. At no point AFTER my April 9th payment was I notified that the eggs might be quite a while in their possible arrival. There were no courtesy...
If it is a small venus fly trap, in my experience its best to wait till their a fairly large size before actually feeding them bugs. The "traps" can only open and close 2-3 times before turning brown and dying and artifically setting off a trap will drain its energy. When their little they don't...
Thats ok, when I was 15 I was raising one for a science fair project and my brother knocked it over resulting in the plant and soil ball to fall out together.
He tried to make it look as if it never took a tumble, when he placed it back in the planter he wasn't thinking and he replaced...
I use to play the the Monster Rancher series when I was younger, I remeber only playing through the second one for an entier summer in grade school. Some of the newer ones aren't too great though
I usually just dump a small amount into an enclosure, picking them up one buy one seems like way too much effort for a mantis feeding. Why do you feel the need to pick them up individually?
Yeah, my 2nd cordial letter wasn't exactly as nice as the first :mellow: Although months back before I did sign up here at the mantid forum I was doing some browsing on some other insect related forums and briefly glazed over a dealer feedback complaint dealing with a...
Bill Oehlke is out of Canada and is a supplier(supposeably) of American saturniids(Giant Silkmoths). I guess he has different contractors here in the states that ship eggs, cocoons, and larvae to US buyers. Well my conundrum started about two weeks ago when I ordered 24 Actias luna eggs and sent...
WOW, thats very neat! I've always heard of using a light trap to attract insects at night but never actually seen it in action! Should try that up here in washington and see what I net. Looking forward to more light trap diaries :lol: