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Well, Phoebe's abdomen was holding strong for a bit, but eventually started drooping again (she's got PLENTY of other great places to hang out in a vertical, angled, or upright horizontal position, but only ever wants to hang upside-down from the top). After scrolling through some past posts...

Also, I've decided to name her Phoebe

I let her bop around on my arm for about an hour or so until she started to get pretty active, drinking water from my fingertips and her color had darkened a bit. I popped her back in the enclosure and she waited a bit to go back up to the top, but her abdomen thankfully seems to have firmed up...

My female just finished molting and I noticed that her abdomen was kinking pretty dramatically downwards as she was hanging from the mesh at the top of her enclosure (I wish I'd gotten a picture of it, but I was more concerned with her safety). I quickly but carefully coaxed her out and have her...

I've been feeding her a good variety of insects and she seems to be thriving atm - thank you for the tip!

Thank you so much! And definitely will do!

Just thought I'd drop a post and say hi! I'm an early childhood/elementary special education paraprofessional, and this past spring our team chose Insects as one of our featured topics. To give the kids some firsthand experience, we ordered painted lady caterpillars, ladybug larvae, and (of...