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23/01/2024

We have Florida katydids, Macleays spectre and limited numbers of green bean and leaf insects looking for new homes. Pm for details please

Thanks to Bugolithic for pinning some of our deceased bugs so they can join the rest of our Taxidermy collection.
07/09/2023

Thanks to Bugolithic for pinning some of our deceased bugs so they can join the rest of our Taxidermy collection.

Feeding time for this impressive ‘dead-leaf’ mantis
25/08/2023

Feeding time for this impressive ‘dead-leaf’ mantis

Super happy to see two of these emerge. Thanks to The Insect Farm for the grubs. Fingers crossed we can get a breeding p...
18/08/2023

Super happy to see two of these emerge. Thanks to The Insect Farm for the grubs. Fingers crossed we can get a breeding population going. Also now having several Florida katydids hatching so judging by the number of eggs,we will be overrun soon!

Nice freshly hatched Trypoxylus dichotomus
31/07/2023

Nice freshly hatched Trypoxylus dichotomus

Sorry about the poor photo but as he was newly emerged I didn’t want to disturb him! We have been waiting a while but fi...
12/04/2023

Sorry about the poor photo but as he was newly emerged I didn’t want to disturb him!

We have been waiting a while but finally the Zig Zag Chafers are emerging!

Trying to measure the female ’green bean’ this eve she’s coming up to about 20cm long, we think she’ll probably have on...
15/03/2023

Trying to measure the female ’green bean’ this eve she’s coming up to about 20cm long, we think she’ll probably have one more moult to go…….

How big do you think she will get 🤔

Panda king isopods arrived today 😊These will now be part of the clean up crew of the bio-active tank that holds the Pach...
15/03/2023

Panda king isopods arrived today 😊

These will now be part of the clean up crew of the bio-active tank that holds the Pachnoda fissipunctum beetles and the Giant Florida Katydids.

Nice set up for these three species 🥰

More gems for the collection and one I have been hankering after …….Giant Florida Katalyids Stilpnochlara couloniana Not...
03/03/2023

More gems for the collection and one I have been hankering after …….

Giant Florida Katalyids
Stilpnochlara couloniana

Not easy to handle as they are a little jumpy! Didn’t like their photo being taken!

18/02/2023

Nymphs of the following available:

Extatosoma tiaratum - macleays spectre psg09
Sungaya inexpectata - sunny sticks psg195
Neohirasea maerens - Vietnam prickly stick psg173
Nuichua rabayae - Nui Chua psg395

Also limited numbers of adult eudicella hormani - flower beetle, pachnoda sinuata, stephanorrhina - spotted flower beetles

Rhino beetles added to the collection today, amazing impressive insects 😍 with many thanks to Exotic Empire for fantast...
16/02/2023

Rhino beetles added to the collection today, amazing impressive insects 😍 with many thanks to Exotic Empire for fantastic specimens.

Fully dried specimen and not worried about being handled. Red winged grasshopper, full grown adult now, stunning 😍
09/02/2023

Fully dried specimen and not worried about being handled. Red winged grasshopper, full grown adult now, stunning 😍

An absolute impressive moult today with one of the ‘giant red winged’ grasshoppers.😍😍
08/02/2023

An absolute impressive moult today with one of the ‘giant red winged’ grasshoppers.

😍😍

Healthy specimens for the collection with thanks to BugzUK
14/01/2023

Healthy specimens for the collection with thanks to BugzUK

Another moult for one of the red winged grasshoppers ……Now the same size as a Britains pig 🤣Still a way to go though, s...
22/12/2022

Another moult for one of the red winged grasshoppers ……

Now the same size as a Britains pig 🤣

Still a way to go though, still needs to double in size 😳

Coming home to new insects to add to the collection ……. 🥰Myronides glaucus PSG 343Heteropteryx dilatata PSG 18
29/11/2022

Coming home to new insects to add to the collection ……. 🥰

Myronides glaucus PSG 343
Heteropteryx dilatata PSG 18

Leaf insects getting a clean out this evening. Different species the two adults, but can you spot the baby? 👀
17/11/2022

Leaf insects getting a clean out this evening. Different species the two adults, but can you spot the baby? 👀

First time hitting a show today 💪Came home with some gems too, added to my grasshopper collection and got some giant re...
25/09/2022

First time hitting a show today 💪

Came home with some gems too, added to my grasshopper collection and got some giant red wings which will end up about 10cm with thanks to The Insect Farm for quality specimens.

Then some Giant green bean stick insects which end up 20cm long, plenty of room in the giant tank! 😃😃

With all this heat we have had recently we have had another mini beetle explosion! Mecynorrhina Harrisi Chlorocala umita...
30/08/2022

With all this heat we have had recently we have had another mini beetle explosion!

Mecynorrhina Harrisi
Chlorocala umitaliensis - purple version

To go alongside my new isopods the pure white ‘Magic Potions’ and the ‘Zebras’

😍

Come on Crumpet, sometimes you do have to make an effort!
01/08/2022

Come on Crumpet, sometimes you do have to make an effort!

A baby explosion today! 1 leaf insect and what we think is Mount Apo babies 🤔🤔
14/07/2022

A baby explosion today!

1 leaf insect and what we think is Mount Apo babies 🤔🤔

🌞 ☀️ Crumpet is loving the sunshine ☀️ 🌞
09/07/2022

🌞 ☀️ Crumpet is loving the sunshine ☀️ 🌞

We’ve had a fruit fly explosion in the Sun Beetle tank……. 🪰So we decided to let the Dead Leaf Mantis into the tank to cl...
29/06/2022

We’ve had a fruit fly explosion in the Sun Beetle tank……. 🪰

So we decided to let the Dead Leaf Mantis into the tank to clean up …. Can you see him? 👀

After the successful pairing of the Marble Mantis, she has finally laid a fertile oothica. 😍We managed to remove the mal...
24/06/2022

After the successful pairing of the Marble Mantis, she has finally laid a fertile oothica. 😍

We managed to remove the male in time as well 💪

Can’t wait to see the babies! 😍

After nearly 6months of waiting this Jewel Beetle finally pupated and emerged this morning 😍😍
23/06/2022

After nearly 6months of waiting this Jewel Beetle finally pupated and emerged this morning 😍😍

Successful pairing of marble mantis.
21/06/2022

Successful pairing of marble mantis.

09/05/2022

POLYSPILOTA AERUGINOSA (MADAGASCAN MARBLE MANTIS)

Feisty one who is enjoying a little spray of water, she has been practising her ootheca skills (white blob to the right) we are planning to mate her this week so fingers crossed she doesn’t just think he is food! 🤞🤞

Freshly moulted red spot assassin
27/04/2022

Freshly moulted red spot assassin

24/03/2022

Huge female Macleays spectre (Extatosoma tiaratum) PSG9 just moulted this evening. 😍

Just some of the 10mantis we have at the moment 😍3x Marble mantis2x African lined mantis Sphodromantis lineola1x Peacock...
08/03/2022

Just some of the 10mantis we have at the moment 😍

3x Marble mantis
2x African lined mantis Sphodromantis lineola
1x Peacock mantis
2x Ghost mantis Phyllocrania paradoxa
1x Blepharopsis mendica
1x Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

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POLYSPILOTA AERUGINOSA (MADAGASCAN MARBLE MANTIS) Feisty one who is enjoying a little spray of water, she has been practising her ootheca skills (white blob to the right) we are planning to mate her this week so fingers crossed she doesn’t just think he is food! 🤞🤞

Huge female Macleays spectre (Extatosoma tiaratum) PSG9 just moulted this evening. 😍

We now have 3 adult males and 1 adult Female Goliath stick insects Eurycnema goliath. Living up to their name and are huge! Time to spread their wings ……

Feeding time for the ‘assassins’ they are not good at catching though!

Colin ……. Enough said!

Leaf insects Phyllium phillippinicum We also have had two more hatched today! 😍

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