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I purchased a budwing ootheca from Mike last week which arrived yesterday. He was very communicative and enthusiastic throughout our discussions and he was extremely prompt in mailing it out (same day as payment!). The ooth arrived yesterday without any damage to the box (remarkable for the...

I wanted to start fresh with a new photo thread to-day! I've been experimenting with different things and finally have some I think are worth showing off. I have a couple photos of all the species I'm currently housing, though not all of the stages. Good variety to start things off...

Unlike Minnie, the Carolina girl I lost a few weeks back, her counterpart Athena was rather lively until the last 12 hours or so. I returned home from work on Thursday to find her handing out near the bottom of her tank as she had been doing for some time. Thinking of how Minnie went, I pulled...

Communication was excellent, accommodations were made without hesitation, turn-around time was fast and product arrived packed well and completely intact. Ooth hatched with satisfactory numbers after a short wait. Fatal_mantis offered to send nymphs in the event it did not, which was...

A slightly happier topic this time, haha. My wild-caught Chinese decided this morning to lay me a huge ooth. She's already laid one in her tank which made me roll my eyes as it was laid in the screen top. A good bit of it was poking through on the other side and it was pretty firmly embedded...

To-day I came home from work and found my s. carolina Minerva in the bottom of her tank. She was right-side up, but laying very still. I gently lifted her with a piece of her scenery and she moved, but very, very slowly. She doesn't seem to have much by way of motor skills anymore and grasps...

I know that a lot of different species will change colours depending on the environment they're kept in according to their surroundings, but I've encountered something a bit odd. I know when almost all, if not all, insects molt, they are white for a while until they harden and turn the colours...

Hello hello! I'm kind of new around these parts but I figured I'd share what I have with you folks! I'm really excited about my new arrivals, so I snapped dozens of photos and want to share them with you guys. As my title suggests, I'm not exactly set up to do macro photography, and the...

I finally got the courage to join a bug forum. I don't know why, but I get really nervous on the internet about joining groups, haha! My name is Jay and I'm a sanitation engineer at an adult care facility (read: janitor at a nursing home) with a B.S. in video game design and development. I'm...