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I find them easiest by using a heavy duty sweep net, swung through tall grasses in areas where stick-insects are known to occur.

Welcome, Chase. I'd have guessed your were on here for years already!

This post prompted me to try to fix the issue last night and I ended up crashing the entire forum. The forum is back up and running now with new software updates but the chatroom is no longer available directly through the hosting company, sorry.

Man, that's a gorgeous bunch of bugs! I've never used a beating sheet though I've held my heavy duty sweep net beneath beaten foliage before. Of course there are visibility issues to the net method. Your results seem pretty great! The spider shots are my favorites, but the little bush cricket...

Hey, Hisserdude, I didn't realize that was you that placed that order. I saw your first name and thought for a second it might be you but I swear your email address had the word "miss" in it and I actually knew a girl back in school with the same first name minus the change of one letter.  In...

Had a wonderful time collecting these in the mountains of California recently. Motyxia are the only known millipedes in the world that are bioluminescent. That means they glow like fireflies through a chemical process, internally. They also happen to fluoresce under UV light...

Did you collect the glowworm? That is awesome! The only thing we have here in my area that glows is this: http://bugguide.net/node/view/720196

A very nicely written blog entry!  I will never forget the first time I saw a D. crocata spider. I grew up looking for bugs every day of my life, but didn't see my first specimen of this species until I was a young teenager. The memory is a little vague but I was planting some flowers under a...

I've never seen them in the US hobby or heard of anybody raising them. Had one in my dead specimen collection once but it got damaged in a move.

C'mon, you gotta give us a little teaser about what your link's about! ;)

They are really great. It's a pretty small world. I'm doing a bug presentation for the neighbors at their daughter's second grade classroom later this week. They had met the Bug Chicks at a local event, I guess. Always sort of blows my mind when random people know other bug people. They really...

I've been buying mantises from Dave for many years and just completed another transaction with him. He's a great breeder and top notch in every aspect of transactions. The hobby benefits greatly by his commitment to it.

They're bringing bugs mainstream. Kristie from the Bug Chicks came over yesterday (they live local to me and they're both so much fun to talk bugs with!). She told me about their new Microsoft video. Just thought I'd post it here. The commercial first aired during the Oscars, recently! Anybody...

I have one of these as a pet, actually. My wife named it Marco. I feed it small Turkistan roaches.  I'm with some of the other members here though in saying that letting it go outdoors is sort of the more unethical thing to do out of respect for the native bugs and such that it would eat. Even...

Well, this has all the stink of progress! Give me a day or so to read through this a second time (and digest it a first time). ;)   I promised Orin I'd work on editing his new roach book for a while again tonight, and it's already hours past when I should have begun but I got stuck on the...

I have read through this twice. CosbyArt's replies seem to reflect the exact same reaction I "tend" to have (for better or worse) for all complicated new ideas. I'm not sure, however, that this one is complicated and therein lies the problem. I'm not even sure what a "build/inventory" is or how...

Here I am on Page 31 of feedback responses for Yen, just after our most recent transaction. What can I say that has not been said already? Yen is a pillar in the mantis community, year after year. I've done business with him for many years and look forward to another deal as soon as the...

Alright, banners are up and I think the classifieds are fixed so that people can get back to business as usual!

Hey Hisserdude, I appreciate your input in the post above. That's very helpful. I have a note in to tech support with the hosting/software company.  The other forums will follow suit after we sort things out here. Thanks for the help everyone. Hey Lame, could you describe for Sticky how you...

I also need to get Rebecca's and the other banners back up later today. There is one more update that needs to happen, or I just have to keep redoing the banners.