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Molt of what was sold to me as a Phormictopus sp. "Full Green," though I have suspicions that it is actually a Phormictopus sp. "Green Femur" aka "South Hispaniola." Male or female?

Cool vid, @Ztesch! No, I ended up selling off the last of my assassins last summer—they’re so prolific that I was spending tons of money just trying to keep my colony fed, so finally had to make the agonizing decision to stop keeping them after 4 years and 4 huge generations. Super pleased to...

What’s up, IL peeps? I’m on the north side of Chicago. I’m into and have kept all sorts of predatory inverts, including Ts, true spiders, scorps, whipscorpions, whipspiders, centipedes, mantids, assassin bugs, waterbugs, and predatory beetles, though I’ve also dabbled in isopods and millipedes.

Wow, how large was this little lady?

Although I have seen hatching nymphs eat adults' leftovers or latch on to prey that are actively being drained by adults, if you want to ensure the little guys survive, much less do well, you will need to offer them some appropriate sized prey. Despite their tiny size, hatchling horrida can take...

Nymphs do best in totally dry conditions--no water dish, no misting, no damp substrate necessary. However, because they get all their fluids from prey, they must be kept consistently well fed (a plump, reddish tinted abdomen will indicate that this is the case) to ensure they don't end up...

Awesome, that looks like a perfect enclosure for a larger sized colony of P. horrida! Although I disassembled my adult enclosure, it looked a lot like this: I had a 10 gallon aquarium with dry cocofiber substrate, plus a few chunks of extra large cork round tube and a slab of cork board placed...

Hey Matt, you're on the right track there. Specifically, in adult specimens only, the underside of the tip of the abdomen of one sex (I believe males, but I don't have any adult specimens atm to confirm) is pointed and smooth, whereas the same spot on the other sex (I believe females) has a...

Thanks, Ted! I got the Hispaniola and a couple of True Blue Leg Ethmostigmus trigonopodus from Steven Stamps (of Stamp’s Turantulas) a couple years ago. It was a rare, one off import, and as you mentioned, I’ve never seen them available from any other vendor in the US. I ended up selling them...

These are pics of old Scolopendra aztecorum (Aztec Ghost Centipede) and Scolopendra sp. “Hispaniola” (Hispaniola Red Giant Centipede) specimens that I longer own (but wish I did!).

Unidentified AZ sp., but potentially an unusual Scolopendra viridis or Hemiscolopendra marginata morph? This is a female who laid of clutch of plings that looked like tiny, living strands of black hair.

Theatops sp. (Forceps Centipede)

Scolopendra polymorpha “Turquoise Beauty Morph”