That sounds weird. Do you recall if the halves were simply placed back together in proximity, or if there was a space in between? I wonder if the pupa matured into an adult.

They are preprogrammed for crawling a certain distance. The good example is a round jar or container for Sphingidae larvae or any other species which pupate underground. The caterpillar will pass the ideal spot to bury multiple times and finally bury it self at the same location. They don’t really ...

Wouldn't the speed of a larva depend on it's size? I know larva can motor right along, and I would guess the species that travel the furthest would be burrowers like Sphinx. I've never thought about how fast they crawl- just how fast they can escape my eye when changing food plant, I know they will ...

Yes, the pupa must be somewhere. I think there are two mitigating factors, the species, and individual behavior. I have found wild Papilio rutulus pupa before, at the base of a hundred foot tall poplar tree under a board. they clearly traveled some distance to pupate. I had a brood of luna raised un...

I was conjecturing, I don't recall ever reading in 50 some years anything about what is inside a freshly pupated caterpillar. We probably have all seen the gradual development of the adult through the shell, as well as witnessing the process of emergence. I won't comment on your list of myths it's t...

You just need to post a want ad. Trading is the original form of capitalism, the issue is that one needs a trading partner, and it is simpler to accept money, which can be saved for use at the right time. One of my first experiences with breeding livestock, I posted an ad for trade. I got a response...

Chuck, your last 2 paragraphs express my sentiments as well, we make a lot of effort in pointless endeavors when the issues are here on this planet. As a whole, our species is self-destructive and you only need to look at past and present history to figure that out. A few philanthropists are not goi...

I’m not sure if I’m doing this correctly. Hello everyone my name is Branden I just got into the hobby recently and have fallen in love with isopods, millipedes and scorpions, invertebrates, etc. I’m from California Los Angeles county. You appear to doing the Insectnet thing correctly. It's a big mi...

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You can by a 2 oz. bottle at ...amazon... or contact SuperSolvent@gmail.com, 10 bucks if I remember correctly. It's worth it if your fingers are
glued like a flipper.

I don't know, I did buy a couple vials of insect repair adhesive before Bioquip shut down, of course, the hope is to never need to use them. I have glued some antennae and a marcellus tail, seemed to work, I have a misaligned Graellsia antennea tip that pokes me in the side every time I look at the ...

If I get back to Italy, my nephew is serving over there with the Italian military, somewhere, my sister tells me where and it goes in one ear and out the other, somewhere on the eastern coast, not the regular American base like the one in Napoli- I am going to visit a pet shop, and pay more attentio...

Thank you for expressing the issue a bit better than I did Chuck, truth be told, I would make a wild guess and say that many American collectors who don't travel have got to have some envy concerning entomology in the EU, we have nothing like the insect shows I see advertised , and our authority fig...

I am an American, and buy mostly from the USA, I deal with realistic sellers from overseas, I could really care less about the permit system. I accept risk when I choose to and that's worked for nearly the last 10 years. I don't buy deadstock anyway, I have 1 case of Ornithoptera, are there specimen...

Those are some beautiful beetles- as if they all aren't. just some are better than others...:) I read once in an insect book that during a piano concerto a beetle emerged out of the wood the piano was made of. I don't recall the book, but there was some conjecture about how something like that could...

F*u*c*k ebay and start using https://marketplace.insectnet.com/ Language. Little stars don't fly for me there buddy. Besides that, the market place is mostly for the EU, everything is out of the USA, I look at specimens there, but I'm not getting a permit for anything, ever. Period. It's not worth ...

My brother gave it to me, he collects coins and silver bullion. A lot of different subject matter gets put onto a coin, he probably found it at one of the coin shops he goes to. I'm a complete amateur with coins, although I can spot a silver coin in change, I've picked up a few dimes going through m...

My uncrushable beetle. An unexpected gift from last holiday season. This is 2 troy ounces of.999

Unless you watch documentaries, read or just pay attention, most people don't notice these things, clearly, pesticides go where they're not wanted, and kill indiscriminately. Habitat loss is the effect of population. We may see pictures of hungry people in advertising, but there is a lot of food was...

58 Chevy, if that's your kit it's in great shape. I see them on eBay now and then, Aurora is one of the things I collect, with enough money, you
can still buy sealed kits of just about anything. I like the Prehistoric scenes and the monster glow kits.

At least, for better of worse, space is pretty big. It is incredible when you see a visual depiction of all the (trackable) objects orbiting the Earth. I think they can only track baseball or larger. So far, things have been amazingly lucky for ground based humanoids. I call things like that "d...