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My female successfully molted into an adult today. She's had swollen wing buds for a couple weeks and was hanging upside-down with her arms loosely in front of her last night, so I knew she was going to molt soon. Here's a picture of a male that molted into an adult early last September...

I've noticed that many people tend to throw around the terms egg bound and egg binding when talking about female mantises that refuse to lay their oothecae. Egg binding is a term used for things like reptiles and birds where they do not have enough calcium or other minerals in their diet and...

I can't find an adult female for these, so I'm going to put my two adult male Deroplatys truncata up for sale in hopes that someone has a use for them. I'd like $60 for both plus the actual cost of shipping. I purchased these as $25 dollar nymphs. Willing to consider trades and reasonable...

I'm looking for a subadult or an adult female Deroplatys truncata. My subadult males will be molting into adults soon. Alternatively, if you have a female and need males, I could send them to you once they've molted in exchange for some of the offspring.

I collected female Variable Checkerspot Butterflies last year in April and they laid eggs that hatched out and fed on some Penstemon from my garden until they reached the third instar. At that point, they stopped feeding and began their obligatory larval diapause during the summer. They came out...

My second attempt at keeping Hymenopus coronatus. The previous attempt didn't go too well when most of mine died in the care of my friend while I had to go out of town for a month. 2nd Instar after unpacking Molted to 3rd instar 4 days later. Molted to 4th instar 9 days after unpacking...

Went collecting in a canyon and caught a few tarantula hawks. Here's a male lapping up sugar solution from a q-tip. He's half the size of the largest female I captured. I am most definitely not feeling brave enough to handle a large female whose stinger is long enough to pierce straight through...

I've had this female for over two years and she's molted twice while in my care. She produced an infertile eggsac last year before I purchased a male for her. The male is half her size and I thought he wasn't yet mature, but the appearance of spermatophores let me know otherwise. Here they are...

My attempt to breed this species came to an unfortunate end. The female available molted into an adult two months after my other female and my two males. Both males were killed by the first female earlier this month before she neurotically chewed off her own limbs and died. She molted two days...

This guy was just a tiny, electric blue spiderling two years ago. He molted into a mature male early this morning. He's hardened enough to move around and to be gently handled, but he still has a shiny, milky blue exoskeleton coloration that is evident in recently molted, dark-colored...

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Purchased five mantises and only three arrived alive. They were shipped express in an envelope with very little insulation rather than a box and were contained in a flat tubberware container with a loose, folded piece of paper towel that unfortunately crushed one of the mantises to death during...

I'm still looking to purchase an adult male Sphodropoda quinquedens for my adult female. PM me if you have one available and we can work out the details.

Looking to purchase an adult male Sphodropoda quinquendens. My male fell while molting into an adult and my adult female will be needing a mate soon.

Looking to purchase oothecae or a minimum of six and up to ten L2 or older nymphs of the following species: Blepharopsis mendica Cilnia humeralis Deroplatys truncata Hymenopus coronatus I am willing to pay prices that are within reason if I can afford to.

I've been keeping silkworms to feed some of my pets and left a bunch to pupate so I'd be culture them again. These spun a silk that's mostly yellow, but some have a peach or orange hue to them that doesn't photograph well with my iphone. The white cocoon is from another batch of silkworms. The...

Female and male Phyllovates chlorophaea on a Darlingtonia californica pitcher. The female molted yesterday and the male molted some time last night--it's the only reason he didn't fly away. Female Cilnia humeralis on a Utricularia reniformis inflorescence. She's currently waiting for the...

It was feeding time, but this male Hymenopus coronatus would not let go of the female he was on. The waiter brought the female a meal--a nice, large roach--and noticed the male's palps moving... and then watched as he slowly began taking careful steps up the female's thorax. Seeing that the male...

So, I've never had dogs or cats... but I do have chickens! They wander around my backyard freely during the day if I'm home to let them out and keep an eye on them--both to make sure predators don't get to them and to be there to calm them down in case something like a squirrel freaks them out...

Some of the many critters that I keep. Damon diadema male: He's one of four recently purchased adults. They all have broken antenniform legs that should regenerate when they molt. Mastigoproctus gigantea: These guys only sprayed me when I first got them and I thought that it smelled kind...