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I sometimes ask the Arachnoboards guys, "What are you basing this claim on?" Shortly thereafter, all 🤬 breaks loose!

It's pretty mundane Rebecca. ;)

Speaking of fires, Amazon refunded me for a smoke alarm this morning, but they didn't want it returned. I don't need the smoke alarm because I intend to get better ones. They have models that come in sets of three. They're wirelessly connected. If one goes off, they all go off together...

I'm curious how much actual flying room there is inside a typical mantis enclosure, or is it just the fact that flies typically have a high rate of metabolism? Even when they're walking on the inside walls of the enclosure, they're likely to attract attention.

The only reason I'd feel obliged to breed mantises is because they're relatively short lived. With a tarantula, you're looking at years. With mantises, one year if you're lucky.

Well, I still don't see the lats eating, but the dubia sure like the apples and carrots I bought. :) The space heater arrived. It's a wall mounted unit, so I'll figure that out tomorrow.

I may take you up on that. Let me see if I can't revive my lats first. I may take that route as well. I'm waiting for a space heater delivery. My goal is to keep a corner of the room at an elevated temperature with sheets of plastic. Kind of like a DIY grow tent.

Thanks. The heating pad is a science experiment. I don't plan on leaving it unattended. I'll get some apples and carrots today.

I've been trying to get it up to 85 degrees, at least on one side of the enclosure. At this point I'd consider myself lucky if the population gets out of control. I didn't start out with all that many, and I've already had some die-offs. They'll zoom a little if I take the cover off. Most of...

Are you sure she's not Megan Merkel? 😁

Sounds like she might be a candidate for tong feeding.

Thanks. I'm a little concerned with the lats. There aren't that many of them. The seller assured me that he was giving me enough to establish a thriving colony. He said it would take 6 months, however. So far they seem more sluggish than I thought lats would be. Maybe I'm not keeping them...

I don't know if it would make a difference, but people typically stick with flying feeders with their orchid mantises. If she's outgrown houseflies, the next step up would be bottle flies. They may elicit a better feeding response.

After a decade of lurking on various invert forums, I finally pulled the trigger and bought some. Yesterday I went to the All Ohio Reptile Show, and picked up a relatively mature female Acanthoscurria geniculata tarantula. She came with a freebie sling, so I chose a little Stromatopelma...

Don't know. The band might be too tight to move. He can't get it off. Is he a lighter shade of color ahead of the ring? New skin vs old? If so, it might be the beginning of a molt. You might want to try this myriapod forum. There's more activity over there...

Is that a recent development? Does it slide if you push on it? It might be part of a previous shed left over.

I think you're right. The good news is, C. Spinigerus tends to stay out in the open more than your average millipede.

I feel like I've been Rickrolled whenever I click on your Owen Wilson URL.

It looks inviting.

I figured she probably interpreted it that way. If mantises are dying, there's really no good answer you can give. Those kinds of folks are typically not hobbyists, and once they get their answer, they're gone for good. By the way it took her almost 2 weeks to check back, so exactly how...