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Cannot believe I'm asking where to get roaches, when I've spent lots of time trying not to have them... :rolleyes: Orin suggests nauphoeta cinerea roaches for high nutrition for breeding females, so where is there a good, and especiall, inexpensive source for these? I have a couple that are...

YOu can find them in mines and caves. I've seen them but I haven't been in a mine or cave in quite some time. I used to live in mining territory when I was a kid, and we would explore them alot, especially when it's 110 degrees out and the cave or mine is like 60 degrees. Scorpions like them...

After reviewing Orin's book I noted that he does say to mist everyday, but to let the ooth dry out between mistings or the ooth will mold and die, so I would think that the ooth should dry, even if it takes days to do so.

I think in our trade magazine that the writers, members of the org, get $300 a page, but I could be mistaken on that amount. I would assume a good pic could get a couple hundred, but some folks would probably move on to find a lower price example, but those with the budget probably wouldn't...

I started this hobby this past december, and have hatched 3 ooths. No misting till the your were born, and I live in AZ where it's dry. I'm not saying you shouldn't mist, but I'm saying I didn't and the ooths did well, and that you may be misting too much. I do know that my first hatch out...

I wonder if mantis' can be attacked by mites that may have some form of poison on them, like the pesticides or such. The jerking is the strange symptom that makes me think poison, or maybe he's just practicing head butting for those occaisional bouts with other mantis' ... :rolleyes: The...

I use the 'airplant' that live in the air in trees, that supposedly absorb nutrients from the air. The just need a bit of mist occaisionally, and my mantis' enjoy hanging out on them and camoflaging in with them. No problem with the one's I have, and I have about 4 varieties or them.

There are water bed heaters, I picked one up at a yard sale for a couple bucks, for my plants outside, or you could check with a local green house or plant supply to see what they use the heat the roots of their plants. I mention this as the substrate would be similar to soil that roots are...

This is the item I was refering to before, that my cousin had. I just got it from him two days ago. He got if for a couple bucks at a yard sale. The 'Indoor' bug trap doesn't use a shock to kill the bugs. It sucks them in and traps them. The price on this ebay item is higher than others, so...

probably not too unusual, but I have brown and green in the same container, and I don't think it's a sex thing, but I could be wrong. I have 5, maybe sub adults, together in a gallon jar, and no real aggression or anything, I have seen one throw another, but no killing or steady aggression, but...

For the uninitiated, the Magic School Bus is a PBS kids show, kinda like in the same vein as sesame street, but not. The had a show on this last weekend, not sure of the name, but a show where some young guy, I suppose to get teens excited about nature stuff, but he checks out different stuff...

Some folks keep them similar to the way you are refering to, and also keep an aquarium to let them run free in for a while, then back to the deli cup for dinner. I just let them out of their jars I keep them in, to climb on me, and lately let them climb around on the stuff where the enclosures...

The facility really isn't what you may expect, or maybe you do. It's a gutted out mobile home, with the work tables, and rooms with screened in areas for the flies and such, with heating and the necessities, not real fancy, but effective. The spiders just hanging out make it seem kinda like...

another thought occured to me, yes, another one, that those tubes like they sell at home depot and other hardware strores, that the rubber type ends with a slit cut in them, so when you squeeze the tube at the ends of the slit so that it opens, may be somewhat effective in delivery into the...

I was only there for maybe 30 minutes, cause I had to get back for a meeting I barely remembered tonight, but he showed me how he does his stuff, and was very cool about everything. He doesn't seem to have any secrets about how to do what and keep them from people so they have to buy from him...

I'm going to ride up to spider pharm in a couple hours and see their facility. Anyone like me to get a pic of anything there, if they'll let me photograph stuff? It's only about 80 miles from my place, and on one of my favorite bike rides in the state, so it's just an excuse to feed the...

My cousin, who is a habitual yard sale fanatic, supposedly has a device for blowing bugs into a bottle/jug, but I haven't seen it yet. I was going to go by some horse stalls and see about setting it up, but I think I'll avoid horses that have been dewormed or had other antibiotics lately. As...

I've forgotten ff's in the freezer, mels, and they've come back to life, fortunately for the starving masses. :rolleyes: That's why I started culturing them, in case I forgot again and they didn't play lazerus

I would think that people in places like New York City, that have massive roach problems, would probably not mind hatching an ooth and letting the friendly mantis' roam to eat the roaches. I also think that they'd have no idea what it will take to get the mantis' to that point of...

I wonder what it's normal, or prefered, food is?