Well unfortunately tarantulaspiders.com sold the A.Metallica breeding pair I ordered….
sooo I have to wait a few more weeks for them to get more in. :(
still looking for adult male and female g. pulchras. no luck yet.
Okay so here are my two new large arboreal enclosures. I furnished one so you could get an idea of how they look all set up. I bought them from tarantulacages.com. They are 8”x8”x16” handmade acrylic cages. They cost $80.00 each, which really isn’t too bad considering the great quality and the fact that they are specifically made for arboreal tarantulas. They have a side-opening door so you don’t disturb your tarantula’s web at the top, they have several vents which provide adequate ventilation while maintaining humidity and they have lockable hasps if you want extra security. My only complaint is that they took forever to ship! They shipped them about two and a half weeks after I ordered them and then I finally received them a few day later. So it took about three weeks total to get them and I was very impatient so it was very painful to wait that long. But other than the long wait I would definitely recommend them! We will see if my new breeding pair (which will hopefully come very soon) like them as much as I do!
They had nutrition bars made with crickets at the bug fair! I tasted two of them, they were pretty yummy! Reminded me of cliff bars. :D
So I met Ken the Bug Guy at the bug fair yesterday (yes be jealous), this is me holding one of the emperor scorpions at his booth. So cute. In case you didn’t already know, they glow under black light. It’s way bad-ass. I wanted her so bad… parents said no. :( lol
My large arboreal cages came the other day! Now I can finally order my A. Metallica breeding pair! I will post a better pic of the cages tomorrow along with a little review. Also went to bug fair at the Natural History Museum today, so I’ll be posting pics and videos from that as well! :)
My mom is a maid, and she recently got hired to clean and repair a house that was previously owned by some crack addicts, who let cockroaches take over. The first day we walked in, the roaches(and their 'waste') were EVERYWHERE. She brought in an exterminator, which got rid of a good bit, but it's still pretty bad. So, my question to you: Do you know of anything else we can do?
AnonymousThis may sound crazy but purchasing a few geckos and setting them loose in your house to eat them is actually a known method of natural cockroach control that some people swear by. The only problem is since you already tried exterminating, the remaining cockroaches may have toxins left in their systems that could harm the geckos. Another thing you can try is non toxic baits with a dough made of baking soda, bacon grease, minced onions, sugar and flour. Baking soda kills roaches. And if all else fails get out the raid and store- bought cockroach baits. Normally I would only suggest natural methods but roaches are particularly nasty and hard to get rid of little boogers. Best of luck! Let me know what works best!
Living Jewelry
In parts of Mexico tenebrionid beetles are decorated with jewels and put on a chain to be pinned to clothes. The beetles feed little and do not fly. The idea came from the Mayans, who call it the maquech brooch. They believe a bejeweled insect worn over the heart will be a totem for the soul of a deceased loved one. It is illegal to bring these beetles into the United States due to concerns about them becoming a pest. Wearing living jewelry is an appalling concept to many, particularly animal rights activists. Naturally, PETA is very against it. It brings to mind the contoversy over the live turtles they put in key chains in Japan.
Sources:
http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/Research/Objects/mar05_bug_jewelry.html
http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/live-jewelry-or-bling-slavery—.html
Here is a picture of Rimby after her most recent molt. I think I may have to go back on what I said about being pretty sure she is a Mexican Fire Leg because now she is starting to look kind of like a Mexican Red Rump. Thoughts?
By the way, really sorry about the horrible photo quality.
So last week I coaxed Zmeef out of her tunnel web to get a good pic of her. Shortly after I took the pic she decided to come out of her enclosure for a visit. I handled her a bit and she seems a lot more skittish than she used to be. She wigged out and nearly gave me a heart attack when she decided to jump from my hand onto the floor. I thought she was going to crack her exoskeleton! She is totally fine though, and isn’t she just the cutest?
Moth of the Month (April): White Lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth (Hyles lineata)
Well I’m a few days late again for April but let’s do this. So on Easter I was at my grandma’s house spending the holiday with my huge extended family and my mom called me from the dining room where I was talking with my aunts to come outside where my uncles were smoking cigars to see a picture of an “interesting” moth that my uncle had taken. So I looked at it and immediately identified it as a type of hummingbird moth and he was pretty surprised that I had heard of them before.
So I decided that this month’s “moth of the month” will be the most common type of hummingbird moth (also called hawk moths), the white lined sphinx moth. These moths can be found in almost all North American desert regions. They are often seen at dusk, night and dawn. They fly much like a hummingbird and can be easily mistaken for one. They are among the largest flying desert insects, wingspans can be more than five inches.
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I'll totally vouch for Ken the Buy Guy. One of my classmates ordered her research roaches from him, and they came in great shape, and I have another classmate who got a pet tarantula from him in good condition. The same can't be said for Carolina Biological Supply, who can't seem to ship a spider without killing it...
Well there we go! Another advocate of Ken the Bug Guy! :D Thank you!
Can you recommend any sites? I live on long island and no one on the listen sells slings, once and again the pet stores have Ts but they're usually males and already adult :/
How unfortunate :/ Here are a few good sites.
I got my most recent T from,
and I have heard good things about,
Where do you get your slings? Local or online?
Local. I actually almost ordered the one I got yesterday online, I even placed the order but then ten seconds later I noticed that they had the same area code as me so I called them up and it turned out they were close by so they cancelled my order and I just went the next day and picked it up. Overnight shipping is just soooo expensive. But I wouldn’t hesitate to order online if I couldn’t find what I was looking for locally.
Everyone meet my new purple pink toe (Avicularia Purpurea) sling, Priff. I just got her yesterday. A bit of a spitfire, she attempted to shoot poop at me (in the completely wrong direction) yesterday when I was handling her to put her in her new enclosure (the guy I got her from gave her to me in a terrestrial container even though she is an arboreal so I put her in something more suited to her genus).
