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My saga with the H. major nymphs continues. All got moved to their individual deli cups, and seem to be feeding - insofar as I can tell. I'd like to hear from people who've actually bred this species. Again, they seem particularly highly strung, and during the daytime, "punch" the melanogaster...

I had three H. major ooths, one hatched and the others were seemingly bad...all three kept in the same conditions. If that wasn't disappointing enough, the nymphs are skizzy little things, very nervous, and after a week now are still afraid of melanogaster. One issue is that they are all 30 or...

My violin mantises matured and I now have a whole bunch of males and only a few females. It's been amusing to a point to watch the males punching the out of each other and knocking each other off their respective perches. I was worried however that none of them were going to be acceptable to the...

I was initially thrilled to have a bumper crop of BSFs this year, and have been experimentally feeding the adults to a few of my more "expendable" species. Thinks were going well but lately I've had some die-offs of H. majuscula. Their abdomens are visibly black, then they fall off their perches...

I've been experimenting with "alternative" feeders, particularly since I've had very bad luck in the hot weather with getting viable fly pupae. One of the most successful have been bean beetles (Callosobruchus maculatus). They take longer to get "ramped up" than FFs, but if you can be a bit...