Peter Clausen

Hi Tony, I've seen your name around before. It always takes me a minute to re-figure out your nickname. It sounds a bit Egyptian until it's read backwards. Welcome to the forum! Thanks for including some personal info. about yourself. It helps us all get to know each other. Peter

Hi Glen, Welcome to the forum! What exactly does an Agronomist do? Soil stuff, the dictionary tells me. Peter

Easy one for me. Ergaula capucina! Maybe because it sounds and looks like a cappuccino with a swirl of cream (male has a beige band). The female is so beetle-like. Anybody out there have these in culture? Been a good seven years since I've seen them Peter

Excellent photos Robin! Thanks for sharing them with us.

Bricktop, man, I gotta ask...what's your real name? It's cool if you don't want to tell, but it's my nature to ask. You've got me beat. I've never been off-continent! I've done Mexico (my parents live there so it's even cheaper) and Maui in the last year. I like to write long stories about how interesting the world is when you're a bug hobbyist. If you can cultivate a fascination in bugs, you need go no further than your own backyard. I've seen at least 10 bugs in my backyard this year that I've never seen before. Granted, I look, often! My very favorite place at my home is the small set of 3 steps leading from my deck to my backyard. I planted a flower garden (and a few veggies) right by the stairs there...wildflower mix and a few old favorites. Anyway, I love to just sit there in the sun, looking at the flowers and watching the bugs going about their business. I have three kids so 5 minutes is about as much quiet time as I have time for;-) I saw an assassin bug nymph today and a western conifer seed bug hatchling, yesterday. And believe me, Oregon is about as boring a place can be, bug-wise. I just make the best of it and nature never disappoints! You can DOit! Peter

Hi Rachel, Unfortunately, one of my two toad bugs died within the first 24 hours. I'm not sure why. I tried to tempt the smaller remaining one with a fruit fly, but it wouldn't take it. There were a few aquatic invertebrates that came home in the stream water with the toad bug. Some of these, I had hoped, would make a decent (normal/natural) meal for the remaining bug. However, it died like two days later. I didn't get around to taking a photo of them. They were both adults, and probably a breeding pair. So sad!

Hi Spawn, I can ship oak and bayberry. Contact me via email for details. P. giganteum eats both. Peter

Hi Daniel, If you send the files to my email address, I can resize them for you and send them back to you. You can email other members by clicking on their name and then viewing their profile. On the bottom left side of the profile page there is a link for email contact. We appreciate your contributions to the forum and I'm willing to help you with your photos. Welcome! Peter

Hi Paul, That was really neat. I downloaded and installed it and it didn't really take very long...couple minutes. My favorite part was being able to change the kind of roaches, though adding lots of roaches was fun too. The hissing was also cool. How long did it take to create that? Thanks for sharing! Peter

Amazing, I had hardly finished that previous post when I got an email from somebody at one of the labs. Pauline shared this link with me. Perhaps you'll find it useful in your simulations, Paul. http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/twiki/bin/vi...lyPEDAL/WebHome Peter

Hi Paul and Welcome! It's nice to see representation on the forum in Italy. I believe two hobbyists from Sweden joined last week and we have at least one member from the UK. I visited your website, but I couldn't find the "simulation". Is this an animation? I'm curious to see it. I sold roaches to two universities that are working together to study roach locomotion. I had asked for a follow-up on the study, but never received any news. I might just go track them down right now. They had purchased B. discoidalis adults. I also saw your cafepress store. Steven/Beetle-experience is also a member on the forum, here. He has a similar store. I actually have a CafePress store also, but I've only ever managed to sell one product through it. I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with your store. Nice to meet you Paul! Peter

Something is rotten in the state of... Looks like you're well on your way with the Latin names, actually. Welcome to the forum! You'll be teaching us stuff, before long. You might be interested in this: http://www.care2.com/click2donate/ Peter

Thank you, Chris. I'm non-stop on the bug stuff, but it's all less meaningful unless you have a www. to share it with! My wife and I took an unplanned just-get-outta-the-house-and-drive trip yesterday. We ended up about 400 miles away in Eastern Oregon. We spent the night at a place called Crystal Crane Hot Springs and then spent some time down at Malheur Lake Wildlife Refuge, and then today up to the John Day Fossil Beds. Collected a few neat rocks, as well. I'm really starting to get bit by the roach bug and was hoping I might find a few somewhere along the way. None! But, I did manage to find some Toad Bugs. It's crazy to actually see something in person that you've seen only in books for years. THATS why I love bugs. I can go anywhere and see tons of new bugs. Never a boring minute when you're a bug enthusiast! I'm pretty sure these toad bugs I caught are larvae. I didn't manage to find any non-adult photos in a 5 minute web survey. I'll take a few photos, tomorrow and post them in the other category. They're aquatic and predatory, by the way. Look like toads! Mostly, I just took a ton of photographs that I'll get around to posting in a few years. I should do an Oregon Bug Field Guide, but I'm having too much fun with all this interactive online stuff.

Welcome to the board, Yen! For those of you who don't know Yen, he's THE GUY in the US to know for praying mantids. I've done a lot of great business with Yen this last year and highly recommend him for livestock and information. Peter

Thanks for the update, Rachel. If anybody else has a similar problem posting photos, please bring it to our attention.

That's really awesome. I WISH we all lived in some small country like Belgium where we could just drive for a few hours and arrive in the same place. The US isn't the neatest country for bugs, but we have more bugs than any one lifetime's experience could begin to appreciate. The work you do is really great and your work is your play and that's why you're so great at it! I just went out to my garage to take a few photos for you. My dad built this for me before we went down to Arizona one year. It hasn't seen a lot of action the last 5 years or so. We call my dad Captain Contraption for good reason! The only thing missing from the photo are the eight and ten foot sections of PVC piping and elbow joints that we use for sheet stands and the power inverter. They all fit nicely inside other larger PVC pipes with caps on the ends, all of which gets mounted on top of the buggin' wagon (huge van). Of course we have to take a huge van because of the 10 coolers we have inside for keeping bugs alive. My sister never wanted her 162 quart igloo marine cooler back after that. I could hardly smell the granti musk in it, but... So, after we set up the stands for the sheets, we use the black and yellow vice clamps to hold the sheet to the stands. The deep cell battery that we use to power the lights is made for race cars or solar applications or aircraft or something (can't remember). It powers both Mercury Vapor and blacklights, simultaneously. The van was usually not too far if we needed a second power source. With two people we can set it up in about 15 minutes (even ten if the sun is setting already). We would move to a few different locations throughout the night because it was so portable. The dolly has wheels so we could get up the trails with it without too much trouble. Somebody gave us a tip once about quickly killing specimens. A milliliter of windex, via syringe, will kill just about any bug immediately. Ask your nearest diabetic for a disposable new syringe. Glassine envelopes if you want them dead, deli cups if alive! A quick evening rain and a new moon and you're ready to go! Peter

Hi Steven, I didn't know you were becoming a phasmid guy. Hey, I'm dying to know how Bugstock 2007 was??? Peter

Thanks for bringing up this issue. I don't have a definitive answer for you, but I have a few thoughts. I just went to the Cockroach Photos category and was able to post successfully. 1. Perhaps your image was too large. The file size is currently limited to photos 100Kb or less. The forum software will resize larger files automatically to help the window quickly load a thumbnail version of any photo on a given page. But, the original file that you upload cannot exceed 100Kb. 2. If you are connecting to the internet on dialup modem, perhaps your upload timed out. 3. The forum only accepts photos in the following formats: gif,jpeg,jpg,png We hope this helps!

I was walking through a botanical garden in Maui in March (2007) and saw a roach moving very slowly on top of a leaf. I already had my camera out because I always have it out when I'm on vacation in a new place with new bugs. I was looking through the lens and JUST about to snap the photo when out of nowhere this small lizard pounced on the roach. I had wanted a photo of the roach but this was maybe even better! I didn't have an opportunity to take a very clear photo but it was definitely a dramatic and unexpected moment.

Great to have you on the board, Ian! (I have always been very impressed with Ian's dedication to the bug hobbies and his various websites.) Please remind me what you are studying again? Peter

Hello everybody, I just wanted to mention that we are transferring all the posts from the old forum, here to the new forum for posterity's sake. It's in a category called Old Posts off the front page. It's a very time consuming process and may take months. Many of the old posts have been lost in cyberspace, but we're doing our best to remain true to the original content. You are able to read the author's name, date, subject and content of all previous entries that we can find. Here is a link to the most recent years of the older forum (please don't post on the old forum. each message is manually moderated and posted.) http://members5.boardhost.com/allpetroaches/ For a little fun, you might check out moments in time of some of your favorites websites over the years, at the following link (search waybackmachine): http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Peter

That's awesome, Rachel. It's really nice to hear it's working out for you. Thank you.

Hi Rachel, Yep, it's kind of sad that I haven't uploaded any new photos to BIC in a long time. I have thousands of additional photos to upload...someday. For the last year and a half I've putting my time into experiencing the hobby in different ways and sharing it with others. The auction site is really my favorite website right now. It's a good feeling to try to create a decent marketplace where people might conduct their business while contributing to a good cause as a side effect. It's not really taking off like it could, yet. The participation on behalf of most of the selling and buying community has been slow to start. No worries though. The concept is a success! Thanks for appreciating! Peter

Hi Rachel, We're just getting the forum up and running. It might be helpful if you list the species you're raising and a few that you might be interested in. Perhaps somebody will see your list and want to do some trading! Peter

Hi Greg, I would highly recommend artist Roger Hall. His website is: http://inkart.net/ I've also sent him a message with a link to this post if he'd like to follow up with you. He has been gracious enough to list one example of his work on our BidaBug auction website. Peter