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  1. You're so lucky... I saw toad bugs once in North Carolina when I was a kid and I've never seen one since, even though they supposedely live around here too. I check ever single riverbank and lakeshore I come across. What sort of habitat did you find them in?
  2. Hmm... Yeah maybe feed them a low protein diet for a while before eating. But cockroaches really aren't the best edible insects if you ask me. Crickets, mealworms, waxworks, grasshoppers, woodlice, etc. taste much better. Mealworms are especially palatable and probably the easiest to farm large quantities of.
  3. Yup. That's what happens to 'em every time. I've tried to rear dozens of sphinx moth larvae and only one didn't turn out to be infested with wasps. If you want to rear sphinx moths that don't erupt into piles of wasp grubs keep an eye out for adults next year, maybe set up a light sheet and if you're lucky you might find a gravid female. You can also order eggs pretty cheap from places like InsectNet or trade livestock on Ovogram.
  4. They eat grape leaves, though I'm pretty sure that's not the only thing they eat and you should feed them whatever plant you find them on. If you find a large specimen crawling around on the ground it's probably done eating and looking for a place to pupate.
  5. The roaches are Parcoblattas. The millipedes are in the genus Apheloria. Maybe A. virginensis. The caterpillar looks like a Pandora Sphinx Moth. It will turn into a very beautiful moth, unless it's been parasitized by braconid wasps which happens to them very frequently. The katydid is some sort of conehead. The little white fluffy guys are woolly aphids. Sometimes when a bunch of them are flying around it looks like it's snowing.
  6. You saw both species of Neobarretia? Did you collect any?
  7. Beautiful! What other critters did you see on this collecting trip?
  8. Try a mixture of mashed up banana and beer. (Of course, make sure they can't drown in it if you use a pitfall trap!)
  9. I concur that egg flats are a pain when they get damp.
  10. But at least these are genuine all- american isopods and not that everyday, introduced European drivel.
  11. I love how the E. muricatum pupa looks like something really gangly is going to come out but the elytra expand and give it a broad shape
  12. Did these evolve from Parcoblatta? They look similar and I often see parcoblattas around ant nests.
  13. If there's pesticide residue, it'll be on the rind.
  14. Huh, funny you bring up E. lucidus, I saw one for the first time today. Though my favorite would have to be E. lapponicus.
  15. These are like more attractive versions of Ectobius sp.
  16. Keep her in a dry container so it dries up faster?
  17. This is my favorite species that I don't have yet... If I had it it would be my overall favorite for sure.
  18. Oh geez I didn't realize they were that big... I wouldn't feel comfortable holding that either. I wonder how bites from this and a giant waterbug would rank on the schmidt pain index.
  19. I've tried dubias. If you don't remove their entrails by freezing, thawing, and carefully pulling off the head they taste absolutely disgusting. It's the same as that defensive odor they produce when threatened. If you do, they still don't taste very good. Wild grasshoppers and locusts, on the other hand, are delicious.
  20. The Laevigata are such a beautiful species. I hope they'll become more available in the future.
  21. Whether you see them or not, there's always gonna be springtails in damp soil. Usually terrariums end up with springtails regardless of whether they were introduced deliberately.
  22. The isopod fried rice sounds like a good idea, the bread not so much.
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