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Maybe it's the smell of something else you'd rubbed on you before putting your arm in, or maybe it's just pheromones. Maybe the mom was just giving an martial arts class in mantis style kung fu and was demoing on your arm, and you put it back in so , next student... :) You gotta distract...

Thanks Peter and Yen. I saw the pena blanca refered to in your pics on the bugsincyberspace site. I've never been to bisbee, and always wanted to get there, so I can go mantis hunting, then ride my steel horse on into bisbee, and tombstone :) Phil, I usually get along well with the...

I just put a new date on the container, so I can track which batch it originally belonged to.

I didn't get out this weekend, except to the local park where I found none, but I was wanting to go south and find some of the ground mantis', and maybe a unicorn or two. Don't know that I'll make it this weekend as I've been really dizzy lately. A couple people said that's a symptom of the...

I like figuring things out also, that's how we find out little items that may have been overlooked or not mentioned. When I am working alot, or have alot on my mind though I read and go with what's already proven to cut down on the time invested and stress of keeping super tight records, or...

Not sure about the 80 oz'ers, but I do know there is a difference with 32 oz containers. I bought a bunch at sam's club, and when I got home I found they were much flimsier than the one's you get from people on here. They'll do, but the one's on here don't collapse as easily and are just...

Only time I had problems with the stuff trying to fall out, I use coffee filters, is when you said it was doing it to you, too wet or too dry. Otherwise it's been great. I have had, a couple of cultures, that the filters collapsed down into the media, but the flies still did really well, and...

I was talking to the old hippie guy that does maintenance on my apt. and he told me there were lots of ooths down at the park a couple blocks away. I went down there today and walked all over, basically scoured the countryside, and never saw any sign of ooths or mantis in that park. Where...

I'm about a half century too late for that Peter :) My dad is only about a year younger than Phil. Some would say my comments would indicate that my maturity level would be that of someone young enough to be the reincarnate of Georgie boy :) I only wish I could be as funny as that guy. I...

Guy across town that i met at the show has some purpurea or whatever is spelled, but he wanted more than I wanted to give him. $40 for about a inch and halfer. I only paid $20 for the versi.

Check out some poison dart frog sites, and read up on dendrobates. I've found some good info on food and culturing and nutritional value dealing with fruit flies and other food sources for dart frogs. Interestink, verrryyy interestink....

I've put multiple crickets in with my mantis' and not had any problems. The only thing I'd hesitate doing it putting them in when the molt is forthcoming. I'd hate to have a stupid cricket knock down my mantis and cripple it during a molt, but I've seen no damage done be a cricket. I do have...

K's looks nice, but I read that the more filters you use, the faster the media dries out, but I ain't knowin'. I would assume, not confirmed yet, that unless you have a bunch of layers in there, that you don't need alot of perching/drying area for larva and pup's. I've been reading a book on...

This would be a good time to try an experiment. Take half the hatchlings from one ooth and half from the other and mix them, and put them in one tank, with all the same factors except dust your feeders with high protein powder for one tank, and keep the control tank as usual. Watch and see if...

Hey Jess. Got a buddy over there that's half german and half american. Military brat :) He prefers it there, I guess, but comes here almost every year, to get out of the cold. Now being Canadian, if you lived there, you should be used to the cold :) What varieties of mantis' are wild...

Well, if they follow 'rules', then the other 'white specimens' will look out for their own and give up a bit of theirs to one that has none, so, naw. But if they're idiots and have no sense of brotherhood, then ya got problems, but I'm not that small, and was raised by a guy that was raised by...

A guy at the reptile show this weekend said his key is to have the type of deli tubs that have the holes in the side up at the top of the container, and when he removes the tub from the adult lay area he puts the lid on and it keeps the tub moister, condensation inside the tub, he then puts the...

I thought the bald spot meant he was flicking alot of hair, in defense.

Aviculari versicolor is a type of tarantula that is very colorful, and an arborial variety, which means it hangs out in the trees instead of on the ground normally. I\'m new to the tarantula thing also, and just learned all this stuff this last month or so. A sling is a baby. This guy is...

I agree with the dollar store thing, I do alot of yard saling, and find some outrageously good deals sometimes. Hobby stores may give you some items and ideas for sprucing up the enclosure. Some prey are elusive, so keep this in mind when you design your habitat. Some roaches may burrow...