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Lake Chelan area has lots

I lived almost my whole life in WA and never saw a mantis in western Wa. Plenty east of the mountains

There are a lot of other ones out there, but of all I've tried, repashy is the best

Good choice! Repashy is a superior fly media

Peat moss itself is quite acidic

And, in all honesty, native bees like mason and carpenter bees are actually better pollinators, they just have a smaller home range

They definitely need an acid potting mix

I've been collecting BIG sphinx moths for a month now at least! Best feeder ever

All the Darlingtonias I ever got came from Jerry

I have known Jerry from courting frogs for years, since his days working at the indoor sun shop in Fremont! He has an amazing greenhouse, and very enviable Sarracenia hybridization program

It seems to happen A LOT here. Gotta have the newest, most coveted species, for apparently not much more than bragging rights. In the dart frog hobby we see this all the time, and once common species become very rare because people lose interest with what everyone else already has. There seems...

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Pressure sterilize your jars @ 15psi for 60 min. Put the filter disks and lid rings on loosely and foil the tops. Once they are cool enough to handle, let them cool in the hood you plan to do work in. As for lighting, give them HOT5 fluorescents, 6500k

Don't fill them with water in the dishwasher, just run them normally. How do you plan to sterilize your agar media? Pressure cooker? Autoclave? You cannot just boil agar media, it needs to be pressure sterilized!! Sterilize your jars in autoclave/pressure cooker! Much better than microwave!!!

Those are the ones! Get the wide mouth jars so they fit properly

the filter disks can be held on the jars by the ring part of the canning lid. these disks are DESIGNED to work with mason jars! The dishwasher/microwave is assuming you dont have access to an autoclave- If you do, just foil the tops and autoclave your flasks at school. Once they have been run...

ALSO- HUGE TIP!!! Go to www.fungi.com, and order their 0.2micron filter disks that fit on the jars!!!!!! Keep things sterile, but lets the flasks breathe, and keeps humidity high!!! MY SECRET WEAPON IN FLASKING SUCCESS

AAAHHH- Heres the trick. Let them brown, but keep a close eye on them , and get them BEFORE they burst. I know its a pain, but you shoud start to see the ridges on the pod come under tension as the pod browns. What I like to do is get the pod off the inflorescense at that point, give it an EtOH...

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Andrew- with the green pod method, you risk losing just as many to being too immature to germinate. With good sterility, you don't lose too many, besides, out of the 1000s in a pod, how many do you want? One pod can make many flasks Science girl- see what Vivarium orchids are all about at...