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Very nice! What is that stuff on its arm?

Happy Halloween!!!

Ive tried a few things and they seem to really like welchs grape jelly lol. Havent had any fruit around but Im sure they would like that to. Thats to bad that theyll die I was hopeing theyd live a while but there bred so they should have babys if I can set them up right.

Well Yensaw gave me the idea to post it on bugguide and within like 10 minutes I had my answer, pretty cool really. Its a female Trachyderes mandibularis.

Hi, I recently found this little beetle out in my backyard up in a tree, its pretty cool looking with its antenna and its got cool colors to. Thx! Its missing its fornt right leg, but it still gets around just fine.

Maybe a Pterinochilus murinus, they got a reputation for being a bit agresive so its not a T you could handle or anything but there bright orange so there a really nice looking T. Also there really hardy so it would be easy to keep and there really cheap.

Hi, I dont know as much about mantis but with tarantulas who lose limbs they can sometimes have difficulty molting with a damaged limb. Alot of times with T's its best to remove the limb completely, but of course Im NOT recomending this with your mantis as I dont know if this would be a good...

HI, I was just wondering what temperature is good for fruitfly cultures? The caresheet I got with my last order of them said its best to keep them at 72f but that seems a little low and was just wanting a second opinion. Thx!

Hi, I was thinking about raising some waxworms/moths myself awhile back and found this link. I havent actually got around to it though so cant say much from personal experience. To many projects, to little time lol. I hope it helps and goodluck! http://www.exotic-pets.eu/waxworms.php

I know that some bigger flys do bite, I have a few horses and Ive seen flys draw blood on them before.

Actually the correct nomenclature would be "Binomial name" lol :P

Cool, thx for solving the mystery. :D Ill keep my eye out for a female, and let you know if I find one. And thank you for the mantids, there awsome!

Ouch! Hope she turns out ok.

Turns out that Im pretty sure now that the smaller ones are a different species, Thesprotia graminis. Thx go to Yen saw on that one, if he wouldnt have mentioned them to me I woulda thought they were little S. carolinas forever.

Roaches for sure, I feel the same about crickets they are really nasty, exspecialy when you got like 1000 or more.

wow, you were right, I measured them to see and the male that I thought was close to 4" is actually about 2.3" and the ones I said where 1-2" are about 1.3" long. I guess my fishermens eye was playing tricks on me lol. It really surprised me I was off by that much. I looked at some pics of...

Thx, they are easy to tell apart when there full grown, I have a male thats about 4" and its easy to tell its male but the ones that are smaller I have no idea, they do have wings so there adults even though there that much smaller? The small ones have a body like a male but wings like a female...

Hi, Ive been finding alot of carolina mantids about 1-2" around and I cant tell what sex they are. My camera sucks so I cant take a pic sorry. The small ones Ive found have wings that go about 3/4 of the way down there abdomens but there bellys dont look like all the pics of females Ive seen. I...

I use 58 qt. sterilite brand containers that I got from the dollar store, I think they were like 6$ I think, though it was along time ago. I ve got as many as 300 in them with no problem, but any more than that I think would be to many, also I use buckets and stuff like that just cause I ran out...

Nauphoeta cinerea (lobster roaches), Gromphradorhina portentosa (hissing roaches) and Blatta lateralis (turkistan roaches). I have a few hundred of each and so far no smell 0 deaths in my enclosures, Im really loving them.