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Hi all, I've got a friend in Cameroon that's needing some help ID'ing a few species, thought Id post them here: pictures arent working and i gtg, work on this later, lol chris

trying to get school to do something more general biological/geographical eg www.opwall.com type stuff Edit: web URL

If I remember right it is a publisher which sells english books, mainly about reptiles, so there is a chance

If I remember right you are allowed to send feeder insects However your average Royal Mail worker probably couldnt care less I don't mark my parcels with anything except the address and only if exporting have I been asked anything and thats because there were forms to fill in

I prefer latin, although even that isn't always reliable I've been told of people inventing latin names! For some reason names are so much more complex with inverts than with other animals, with repltiles for example most people use common names as they almost always refer to one species...

you can get this in the UK but you would have to be pretty fluent in German, I can cope with the basics but thats about it I'm sure I saw a copy at last years Kettering Show

Ah, thats really what I wanted to see, colouration. My species that i went sent as P.flaviventris had a yellow underside, P.S.calceata had a red underside. This was the only easy way to tell them apart as they were virtually identical from above. This is beginning to really confuse me now

sorry, i meant on the bottom of the beetle, where you can see the abdomen clearly

can u post a pic of its underside out of interest Just noticed latin name I've kept Pachnoda flaviventris (same I guess known by different name) Pachnoda sinuata calceata is only sinuata subspecies ive kept or heard of :?

it is indeed, wish they were available in captivity

If you want to read something recent on mantids national geo magazine has an article in it (Jan Issue), not sure if its any good yet, just flicked through as only got it in the post this morning

titanus was big, but that was it, wouldn't be something I'd be desperate to keep, much prefer the harlequin (sp?) beetle that was on, did you see titanus's mandibles, bloody heck, chomp off your finger in one bite

I kept all my secies of fruit beetles in my room, mainly meaning they only had the little light coming from the window were so in quite dark conditions yet most species still bred well

This anoys me a bit, admittedly there are scamers, far too many of them, but everybody tars african exporters with the same brush, there are reliable exporters otherwise cwe would have very few african species, you've recieved stuff from Africa haven't you Ian? I'm not having a go, it just...

cool pics what kind of locust is that? Its not like commercially available species in the UK (maing Schistocerca (sp?) sp and Locusta sp - cant rember exact species atm)

I think people are talking about two different things the 17 year cycle thing Jackson first mentioned were the cicadas, the ones that followed his clicking other people seem to now be talking about the Titan(was that its name) beetle which the grub hadn't been discovered, I'm confused ...

I didn't think it was that long but as I say I'm not sure (I originlly got adults of all species I kept so had cultures for most of them quite rapidly}

:P Well they weren't beetles either! katydids are nearer than beetles, dont know why but I say they are so thats good enough for me :D

I think it may have been cicadas, got me thinking now, cant remember! :?

world wide butterflies - www.wwb.co.uk in the uk and sell lepidoptera, phasmids & the odd mantid