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I use Repashy Superfly and it's great.  The cost isn't too bad either, if you live in the states you can get the 3kg tub for under 50$ from their website and it makes 100 cultures.  I have never seen a speck of mold on my repashy cultures but when I get starter cultures from the reptile...

Welcome.  Under the Dedicated Caresheets section there is a full write up on orchids.  That's a great place to start.

The dog food and milk combo simulates that odor they are after from what I understand.  Here's one recipe I found, but I haven't actually tried it myself. Blue bottle flies (easy, but messy and potentially smelly) Blue bottle flies (also known as blow flies) are a common house fly. Materials...

I've heard of people having success with a combination of milk and dog food, but this would still smell horrible.

Neat concept.  What type of container are you doing the cultures in, 32 oz deli cups?  I've seen people doing cultures for curly wing houseflys (musca domestic) but not for BBF.

The pet/reptile stores out here usually sell crickets, mealworms, superworms, waxworms and some places even sell BSFL (black soldier fly larvae) aka phoenix worms, but I haven't been able to find a source for blue bottle fly spikes here.  Although amazon canada does have a listing that is out of...

I found a neat, simple enclosure idea.  Seems like a great way to recycle old CD cases.  It's not my idea, so here is a link to the video that I used.

I don't believe so.  Nice to meet you! Not currently.  I have an ooth of Tenodera Sinensis incubating, which should be due any time now.

Hi all!  I am from Alberta, Canada and am new to Mantis keeping, but have already developed a passion for it.  Lots of great information on these forums, thanks for having me!