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I hope that no one will think me presumptuous for posting this. It is intended as a one-post thread. I am doing it partly to keep myself honest and partly so that Sunny, as Sabra Clark , will one day do what everyone does sooner or later and Google her name and read it. Sunny and i have lived...

Yep, it's Mozart's BD again, and here is a nice clip that everyone knows: Want to discuss the musicology of "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" and chat about the amazing tessatura of the piece and how the Amadeus movie transposed the piece down because the singer couldn't hit high C...

B is for Beethoven B is for Beatbox

Do not play football (soccer). If you must play football, do not play for Togo If you must play for Togo. DO NOT RIDE ON A BUS. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8449319.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15907804 This warning brought to you by the SunnyPhil News Corp.

This thread is as much for me as anything, though anyone who has a dozen of the cutest mantises in the world, all with cute names, and wants to expand their holdings to a hundred or so (ten times the fun, right?), might want to read this It is a one week diary of my work on my own collection...

As a number of you know, and have written to tell me (!) my account was hacked, initially from facebook and then from my client, . I have changed my password and you should not have any more trouble. My thanks to you for not putting me on your spam file! Nothing is without a little fun. The...

This will be an ongoing thread on raising and, I hope, breeding P. wahlbergii. I got rwo ooths from Frey on August 10th. They were wre typical long, thin flower mantis type ooths, dark brown and about 3cm long. I put them in a hatching chamber at 80F/80%RF and both hatched about 100 tiny...

I was looking at a map of the hurricane Irene's path and progress today, and it occurred to me to ask Rick if he was at risk. Apparently he is right in its path and battening down the hatches. You may wish to give him a word of cheer. I have lit a very large hurricane binding candle in the usual...

Ah, I'm a happy old guy! This is just a quick update on our old (young) friend Superfreak for old timers who remember her fondly. The last time I mentioned her was last summer when she had graduated from Sydney uni and was getting ready to do an honors year at Macquarie working on genital...

Now here's a strange phenomenon that I and probably many members have seen before, but this is an extreme case. In her Email this evening, Frey was catching up on mantis stuff and asked me if my "spiny"(Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii) ooths had hatched yet since a bunch of hers had all hatched at...

Some of you already know that our friend, Frey, has been suffering with a bump on her head for the past few weeks. She is still getting headaches and the blood clot has not absorbed so they will do minor (it really is, I've seen it done!) brain surgery to remove the clot.She wrote at about 0700...

In the short time that I have been a member here, I thought that I had heard all the Idolo ooth stories, almost all of them bad. There was the infamous Villosa scandal in which he was supposedly selling WC ooths which didn't hatch. It turned out that in many cases, the failure was due to the...

Today is Hiroshima day I am listening to the Midnight Special show on WFMT in Chicago, as I have for 50 years. It is a folk music show and all the folk singers who were not alive, as I was, upon that day are singing about the horrors of the dropping of the Bomb.. And yes, some of the songs are...

I just posted on Frey's feedback thread about the high hatch success that I have had with her ooths and the consistently poor success with ooths that I have bought in the US over the past few months. Here is a depressing (or interesting, depending on how you look at it) question. Is it possible...

Here's a quick quiz for anyone who has joined the forum since July, 2009. What is or was H.R. 669? What happened to it, and was it really worth getting excited about?

Sunny came home today. Some of you will remember that a year ago I posted that her house was gutted by a fire. Now everything is --more or less -- fixed and she is back within comfortable walking distance again .Right now, her room looks great with a nice double bed, but within a week, the...

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Mantids for sale: U.S only Sybilla pretiosa L2 (H.0519).......$5 each Blepharopsis mendica L2 (H.05-19)......S6 each SOLD OUT! Live delivery guaranteed for Express only, but I strongly suggest Priority for $7 Each nymph is individually packed and in an insulated box and I only mail on Mon...

Here's another member that I was surprised to find doesn't have a thread, since he is a known breeder in the European community. He sent me three ooths last Monday and they arrived here today, a day late due to yet another US National Holiday. As a consequence, the most expensive of the three...