Something unusual happened with the Smerinthus opthalmica larva I was raising, the larva, all sleeved, as they began to mature, every day I'd go and pour out the changed larva.

The first 21 larva were put into 2 different containers , they burrowed in as soon as they hit the substrate, which in ...

Super! The explanation of the process is interesting, I know it's come up before, so apparently these type of abberations would be more common in areas with more dramatic weather changes than more even climates.

The title says it all.
There is no way that there are as many legit sellers of, let's take the current examples of "stag beetles". I think that a person could make up an
insect, and someone would try and sell it. Better yet, how about asking for Meganeura livestock.

yes, morning is slow here, I ...

I am learning very quickly and saw all the massive red flags.


There are more flags, but sometimes I wonder if posting them is undermining our efforts. The simplest thing is that the scammers are usually out of their element. I do want to clear up a comment I made about using peat moss- spaghnum ...

This just gets better and better.
Yes, those are Argema mimosa cocoons depicted.
In America, we also write dates differently, we write 06/20/25, not 20/06/25
While you may ship them in the USA, it is illegal since they are non natives
They spelled the species incorrectly
Member just joined, along ...

These are euryalus x cecropia larva, they've been feeding outside since May 25.
Now I wish I had the respective animals to compare, these seem to look more bluish than pure euryalus,
it'll be interesting to see how they develop, it just occurred to me to take pictures today..
Preferred ceanothus ...

I think I was instrumental in his being banned from InsectNet, he must be operating from some other platform or persona.
Don't worry, you won't get anything to apologize for, luckily for me, I used goods and services and was able to retrieve my money.
The guy is knowledgable, he had me going,until ...

OK, nevermind. The jaws mysterisously loosened...

I have a recently expired Lucanus elephus male, what I am having, or am going to have an issue with is spreading the jaws, when he was alive, he'd stand and his jaws would be spread far apart, you could've put your thumb in there, but now, the jaws are more or less closed, and I am having a ...

Yes, thank you for posting and sharing the experience. I can live vicariously.

This is what makes Homo sapiens so sucessful. It's the will to try anything.

Funny, how some insects shown in common insect guides turn out to be so infrequently encountered in life...

Exactly.
So many cool bugs I looked at pictures of, and probably won't see alive, I just found my first waterscorpion in 2022, and a person might think Mole crickets are everywhere. Maybe ...

I haven't seen one of these for quite some time, so long in fact, that this one is going into a glass case.
Apparently in the USA, only found in the "western" states. The common name for this is "snake fly"
If I hadn't been worried about losing it, I'd have tried for a better picture.
Negha inflata ...

That was weird. I kind of expected this a long time ago. Apparently there is some issue the rest of us, or at least I am unaware of.
Vernon made at least one post after the November scolding, which was nice of him to make,I guess it didn't last.

Fixing a botched antennae sounds stressfull.
At least for "super glues" I use a material from Amazon called Super Solvent, it will make short work of any cyanoacrylate glues.

it's an alcohol/nitroalkanes based solvent, whatever that means.

Hard to tell. Maybe a beetle, looks like wings not completely folded on the end of the abdomen. You might need more pictures, although someone may know exaclty what it is.
Any beetles would probably be food pests, and not specifically dangerous, but you might not want to eat them.

I think it's an ant, but it's hard to tell. Perhaps a picture of it's buddies would help.

Before BioqIuip shut down the equipment side,I bought a few extra things, I have an unused bottle of this item, it's an extra, and I doubt I'll ever need it.
I'll sell or trade it to you.

Thank you all, those are all factors, some of which I hadn't thought of.

We all have different temperatures for the fridge, the humidity factor is interesting, even using wet sponges in the veggie crisper, I cannot raise
the humidty to any significant amount, maybe that's how the appliance works ...

wollastoni wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 10:05 am There is now a security page checking you are human before accessing the forum.

It works too! It knew I was human. Somehow. Well, if it's using my camera, beware.