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Had all 3 males molt to adult. Unfortunately, two that molted in the same cage on the same day ended up with deformed wings. Fortunately, I moved the last male nymph to different enclosure to see if he'd successfully spread his wings and it worked! My females are still subadults -_-

It looks like Brachyiulus sp., which stays small. Yours are probably adults. 

Glad to see you on here. I'm Alan by the way ;)

Ya, I've collected both adults and large nymphs before and were quite surprised at their size. Hopefully I'll be able to raise these guys to adulthood :) Shredded paper sounds like its worth a try. I might try that someday :)  

IKR? It's like they have a black hole in their belly :P   Thank you for wishing me luck :)  

Thank you :)   You should get into roaches! They are super fun to keep and can make great feeders. I highly recommend it! If I end up with too many eggs I'll be putting some up for sale :)

These guys are taking forever to grow! 

One of my females laid an ooth! Female that laid the ooth 

A little update on these guys. I ended up with 4 adult pairs. Males did their job and are now dying off (presumably from old age).  

Thank you :)

Just realized that there's a separate forum section for millipedes. Can the admin. move this post to the forum please? Thank you. 

Sounds like they have really low fertility :o   Fortunately i have two females so hopefully they'll produce enough oothe for me to continue another generation

One of the native pill millipedes in the US. This species was collected from floodplain in Wetumpka, AL. 

Love the metallic coloration on the chrysalises. One of the reasons why I love many Nymphalidae chrysalis :)

Thank you so much, Jseng, for providing the male :)

Got one of the pairs to mate :)

Ah...ok. Was quite excited about this since I haven't heard of this species ranging all the way up to NY.  There are also other neat predatory stink bugs up in the north so I hope you encounter them when the weather warms up :)

I did a trade with Jseng this week and I'm more than pleased with how the trade went! Communication was fast and I enjoyed our conversation. Specimens were shipped on the promised date and were packed extremely well to the point I felt sorry for packing mine poorly compare to his! All the bugs...

Thank you :)   Sounds like you can find them in your area. If you find them I would love to see pics ;)

These aren't associated with milkweeds. I believe you are referring to either Zelus longipes (milkweed assassin bug) or Oncopeltus fasciatus (large milkweed bug).