I BET THE WOODIES WOULD

I have had some woodlice under my care for sometime, but you see there is something a little unusual about these certain ones they are not the same old greyish brown critters but more so are predominantly orange, from my observations I have noticed something's that others may find interesting.

• they have a very cool coloring, but can and mostly will produce a normal colored offspring.
• I cant say that they like to court as much as the usual kind and also are very shy.
• a lot faster moving and like to burrow. in the substrate.
• Well there could be more but that's what I have noticed.!

 

another thing to note is that they eat decaying material and mold, which is what the white stuff is, but there is also micro worms in the sand which helps keep it clean.

woodies, woodlice, pill bugs, insects, mold, fish food, sand substrate,

                                    SLIMEY SLUGGERS

So as I had stated prior, I would update when the little slugs had hatched, well lone behold I was checking the container that they are in the other day, and they have hatched, enjoy the little beauties. I guess that solves that mystery.

Slugs, insects, eggs, fish food, weird, babies,

                             SLUGGISH ENDEAVORS

A while ago i was going through all my potted plants that i have outside and i came across these little rugby ball shaped eggs, did some research and found out that these are in fact slug eggs, i presume that these are of the "Tiger slug" Limax maximus (L.)" they are quite frequent visitors in my house as well as i have quite a bit of slug damage to my plants which is why i think this.

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If you look closely you will notice that the baby molluscs are forming inside the eggs and i think this will be very interesting to examine. when i found the eggs they where clear with a small white spec inside, it has bean a couple of weeks. and they have gotten much bigger. will be interesting to see how long they take to hatch, and when they do i will be sure to document it.

reference:  soil bugs an illustrated guide

breeding Scarabaeidae beetles (breed scarab beetles)

"MANUKA BEETLES"

These are little Manuka beetles that we heard buzzing around the forest, they are apparently a pest species in New Zealand , but still because of my obsession with insects I am tempted to always try and breed any species of insect that I find and this is no exception. I have looked up guides on the internet about breeding other beetles of the same species so have some info from there, but mostly I will try myself and upload all the findings that I make…so will keep the site updated as I find new things.

...for more information WIKILINK

breeding Teleogryllus commodus "black field cricket"

I have recently bought some black field crickets and will be attempting to breed them. at a later stage when i have the whole breeding process sorted out i will upload some more info but for now just some pictures.


temperature is very important i have two thermometres to test this.
aswell as some baby crix pics. and setup so far.

hey all!

hey everyone

I have not posted up here for a long time, reason being that I have bean waiting for a order of crickets to come in, so that I can do a breeding and setup of them but, unfortunately they have not arrived for a long time, today I should hopefully be picking them up. I will be following up with a wax worm breeding project soon though, so I will be working on that as we speak. oh if you view my blog leave some comments so that I know what you may be interested in viewing in the future.

thanks.

seashore earwig

This is a common seashore earwig which resides as you guessed on or near the sea shore under logs and seaweed were it feeds on decomposing waste e.g. rotting fish, kelp, and dead insects. I have had this bunch for quite a while as I guess that they are long lived. They are happy eating fish pellets as seen in the photo, which is easily purchased at any pet shop. The reason I am posting this is that it is an endemic species so great to study and keep as pets. Any comments and questions appreciated.