Last weekend, while me and my family were at Woodhaven Lakes(mostly fixing up our property a bit) we had a bit of time to go down to the lake where I had seen a good number of Gelastocoris oculatus( Big-eyed Toad Bugs.) Well, I was able to find nine of these cool little guys and brought them back with me to try an keep and hopefully breed.
I made them up an enclosure with a medium-sized deli cup as the water dish and some netting to climb back out of the water dish. I am using a very moist mix of coconut fiber, course sand, and fine-grained sand as the substrate.
Here's some pictures of these guys and their enclosure!
Adult G.oculatus enjoying some N.cinerea nymphs |
G.oculatus nymphs |
G.oculatus enclosure |
Hope you guys enjoyed, and I'll see you all on my next post!
Cool, glad they are feeding for you! Hope you are able to breed them! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you :) Have you ever heard of anyone breeding these?
DeleteOrin might have, he wrote about them in his book, "Assassin Bugs, Waterscorpions and Other Hemiptera", but I can't remember if he said he bred them or not, and I don't have the book with me at the moment. I'm inclined to say he was successful in breeding them though.
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