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In this video I document the introduction of a male to a female praying mantis and describe my methodology in a play by play fashion as the situation develops, while making small corrections along the way to maximize the chances for success. Sometimes it goes much more smoothly than this...

My latest video about jumping spiders...

Just thought I'd pop on and share a video from my newish YouTube channel.

Had a wonderful time collecting these in the mountains of California recently. Motyxia are the only known millipedes in the world that are bioluminescent. That means they glow like fireflies through a chemical process, internally. They also happen to fluoresce under UV light...

They're bringing bugs mainstream. Kristie from the Bug Chicks came over yesterday (they live local to me and they're both so much fun to talk bugs with!). She told me about their new Microsoft video. Just thought I'd post it here. The commercial first aired during the Oscars, recently! Anybody...

Sometime in the next 8 days the forum software will be updated. Not sure what the new changes are but mostly I'm doing it for the security patches, etc. Also, I'm not so sure that I won't have to do a major upgrade the next time around as they are moving from the 3.X.X series to the 4.0 versions...

Recently, John Farr from StockFootage.com came over with his 4K Ultra HD video camera and shot clips of pet bugs. Thanks to our moderator Orin for donating a few specimens for the video including the giant Heterophrynus batesii which, as a perfect adult, is otherwise impossible to source...

I donated to this project. Please check it out and consider helping them out! http://www.rockethub.com/projects/41273-blue-beetle-genome-project

If you're a bug geek like me, it's really cool to have the first state record in the BugGuide.net database for an insect. http://bugguide.net/node/view/764126

Is there anybody out there with decent banner making skills? I'd like to put a different type of banner up on this forum. Plus, I have a new website that also needs a decent banner. Free bugs and fame (but not fortune) may be yours! Do you have skills?

Well, it may be true. The roaches in this video may be extinct in the wild, existing in only a few captive cultures. Simandoa conserfariam were discovered in a cave system which may have been destroyed by bauxite mining according to Harvard's, Piotr Naskrecki. Their common name is the Simandoa...

I'm looking for a deal on a group of mantises since I'm running out again. Please PM me if you have any available at a decent price. It's often nicer to ship them all to one person than to piece out the onesy twosy orders, eh? I am wanting to buy these for resale, so please keep that in mind as...

FYI- We had a downtime issue on the forum on Tuesday. When I asked the hosting company what the deal was, they said: "Our apologies for that, it was something that needed changing on the new server." For whatever it's worth...

I just thought I'd post a quick partial-response to a note a recent customer placed in my breeder feedback thread. They indicated it wasn't a complaint, but I feel compelled to explain a few things that many people who don't ship hundreds of bugs every month may not know. Plump mantises are...

I received a perfect shipment of mantises from more_rayne. Every part of the transaction was super smooth. Hope to purchase again soon!

I'm out of stock on mantises for the first time in years, not so much because they sell terribly well but because I've been lazy. I'm interested in purchasing about 40 mantises of 2+ species for a low price with priority shipping. If you'd rather not pack 40 packages to sell your mantises, and...

I've read some discussion on this exporter out of Tanzania. Does anybody have any experience with her? (Please paraphrase your personal experiences with her and remember this is not a discussion section of the forum. One post per person, please.)

Lion requested that some of the rest of us submit road cruising photos. Here's one I took a few weeks ago, but I'll have to add more photos later. This post is taken from one in a discussion we had over at beetleforum.net .............. My trip was slightly disappointing in terms of...

A controversial subject in captivity, here is more evidence of the natural phenomenon of insects consuming "higher order" animals: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43128183/ns/technology_and_science-science

These gorgeous yellow-spotted flat (polydesmidae family) millipedes are native to the Eastern US and parts of Canada. In this video, they are shown under UV light. Specimens from different localities can display varying patterns of spots. It is a characteristic of the species to have lines of...