Greetings Once Again Guys!
I recently got a new shipment from Peter! I received 24+ Little Kenyan roaches, 50+ mealworms, and a coconut fiber disk. Another great transaction! The coconut fiber disk was small, but it made a good amount of substrate and it was just enough to get some substrate in all of my containers. I already fed off 5 mealworms to my ground beetles and wolf spider and they love them! I may feed off a couple of my Little Kenyans, but right now I'm mainly just trying to get the colony to reproduce to a stable amount before I start feeding them off regularly. By the way, a couple of the mealworms were already pupae when I received them, which is great!
Here's some pictures of them and their enclosures, which are a plastic Zip lock container with some ventilation holes in the lid and a plain old plastic container.
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| Little Kenyan roach enclosure |
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| Little Kenyan roach nymphs |
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| Mealworms and their enclosure |
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| Mealworm pupae |
I also found another really cool spider while checking under some rocks in my yard! It was an adult male Dysdera crocata( Woodlouse Hunter)! It's really cool that I found one of these because they are pretty hard to come by and the last time I remember seeing one was a couple years ago! These guys are pretty unique in that they have 6 eyes instead of the normal 8 eyes that a spider usually has, they are a lot less hairy than the usual spider, and they specialize in eating isopods, which are vary hard for many other insects to devour due to their hard exoskeleton! I am excited to keep one of these because they can supposedly live a couple years as adults in captivity! Here's some pictures of him and the cool little web he created, which he included some coconut fiber in!
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| Dysdera crocata |
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| Dysdera crocata in web |
Happy to share some photos of my insects with you guys again, and I hope you all enjoyed! Until next time, good bye!
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