Size: Adult female is relatively longer in carapace length than male. (due to difference in age, the relative difference have no basis of comparision except in...
Sorry for late answer, The shape of the queue is different between males and females, short and thick in females and slender in males. Bye, JM Dr. Jean-Michel...
Hi all, No simple answer judging by the replies received so far. One site which demonstrates this is at:- http://web.singnet.com.sg/~caijw/sex/sex.htm Reg...
Dear friends, Does someone know a specialist of Keroplatidae ? Sincerely, Jean-Michel. Dr. Jean-Michel MAES MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO AP 527 LEON NICARAGUA tel...
some wood shavings with leaf litter and maybe some moss and a stick or two to climb on would be fine. tiaventers <tiaventers@...> wrote: Can you advise...
when I kept my stick insects, I tried a couple of things. First I tried top soil then potting soil. With both of them there were mold, fungi and horrible...
Thank you for your advice. Kristen <KDVINE@...> wrote:when I kept my stick insects, I tried a couple of things. First I tried top soil then potting soil....
Thank you for your advice. michelle montgomery <mpaulimonte@...> wrote: some wood shavings with leaf litter and maybe some moss and a stick or two to...
Hi all, a friend photographed this large Orthopteran in Bulgaria last June:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bugclub/files/Identity3/Or1.jpg Does anyone have any...
Studies of when various British insects become active. http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/ Also when 7-spot ladybirds come out of hibernation, start mating &c:...
Hello I have been keeping african mantids for a while now and wanted to start breeding them as i have to replace them every six months or so when they die. The...
Hello Paul, Perhaps they are not experienced enough to tell which sex they are.... However, probably the simplest answer is to buy an egg batch (ootheca) or 10...
Hi Have a look on this insect livestock board for a UK supplier - there appear to be one or two selling mantids or ootheca: My only reccomendation would be...
We've kept ladybug 'pets' for several months & they seem to be doing just fine on apples & lettuce. But a couple of the ladybugs' wingtips are turning a...
Depends what sort of ladybug/ladybird you have. Most species are carnivorous - although they will eat fruit to raise their sugar levels or out of desperation....
Hi I am new to the listserv. I have a mentee who is working on a high school bug project focusing on forensic entomology and beetles. I need help in coming up...
Paul, Thank you for your input re: ladybugs. I'll have to check & see if they're carnivorous or herbivorous. El __________________________________ Do you...
six or seven months ago my daughter brought home a tarantula. I haven't identified the species or sex but it's rather small (@ 3 inch body) and is grey with a...
take it easy on how hot you make his saroundings, realistically they do very well at room temp aprox 70 to 75 especially if you have an under tank heater also...
you might get two messages but i think i screwed up sending the first one. first i would drop your temp a bit all my spiders do very well at room temp...
I do not know a lot about tarantulas, but I guess that it's not normal that he/she doesn't eat. I have a big female of a tarantula, she has moulted twice and...
oooh. i've seen those bird eaters at the zoo. those are some big spiders. in general i have never been afraid of spiders and have handled them - to take them...
Thanks for the advice! ... normal that ... moulted ... and she ... give her, ... not have ... cut the ... katydid ? ... Well, the ... male there ... anuncios -...
An insect found by a friend of mine this summer. Information about where it was found "The location was Cabilla Wood, just southeast of Bodmin, Cornwall and...
