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Actually, "District staff do not need access to your property. Once the insecticide is released from the truck-mounted machines, the microscopic droplets follow the air currents wherever they go. Some will go over the house and some will go around." Closing the house a whole week would be...

If the mosquito control truck shows up some night in our neighborhood, spraying Zenivex E4 or Merus 3.0 in the air, is it likely to harm tarantulas, millipedes, silkworms, roaches, isopods, or springtails? They said they use "materials that do not harm non-target species."...

I see even for frogs and toads it helps to at least remove the antenna. Otherwise a roach alertness and reaction time frequently beats their predators.

These forest scorpions (forgot the species) couldn’t catch their Panchlora nivea nymphs for weeks, so I baited with dog treat and melon into a cup from which they couldn’t escape. A scorpion eventually got them this way. Most of my feeders, roaches and mealworms, escape for at least a few days...

The reason I'm skeptical about the aversion to distilled water is that's what most Ts are most likely to encounter as dew or droplets after a rain—unless they drink muddy water, but then we're all doing it wrong. Spring water is more like something they'd find if they were lucky enough to have a...

:lol: To allow for a little more mystery, watermelon's only 92% water—the rind they got, between 80 & 85% Now I just need some dehydrated watermelon... Yes, it's probably the water, but I've had soaked coconut coir, soaked moss, and other wet items in there and haven't seen them picked up yet.

I wouldn't risk it: Grapes and pesticides; plus some creatures don't do well with surgery foods, getting all sticky and messing with their digestion. That watermelon was mostly rind.

Are you trying to civilize my Ts? They've been drinking distilled water off of leaves and other objects as long as there's been Ts. Next thing you know, you'll have them eating with tableware. Yeah, I guess I could wash out their watering dishes and start using those again, but then I have to...

It was an ivory roach's last meal. Those roaches hide better than they run, and I sometimes put in a little of their food to lure them back out. I've been offering the Ts water sprinkled on glass and leaves, so it was a little odd to see both Ts finding and picking up melon like food. It was...

I thought maybe my potentially pregnant female Grammostola pulchripes was just having weird cravings, but then the male did the same thing: Picked up a small slice of watermelon rind and held it for at least an hour before dropping it. Hard to tell if they got anything out of it or if the rind...

Yeah, but not every predator has a stomach for isopods. I've had T's that started out eating some, and then refused to eat them, but would take small crickets and mealworms instead.

How many pillbugs will these eat or kill? That is, how effective would they be at pest control?

I have a temperate bioactive 40-gallon vivarium for gopher snakes I sometimes hibernate. Earwigs (solid dark-brown ones smaller than Europeans) took over, and then all the isopods disappeared. In my backyard, Armadillidium vulgare and Porcellio dilatatus thrive much more than earwigs, so I...

Natural and manmade toxins, harboring bacteria, hardness, abrasiveness, moisture retention (good for humidity), aeration (to prevent anaerobic bacteria), etc.

Temperature appears to be another factor. My lowest shelf male B. albopilosum lived over a year longer than my top shelf male B. albopilosum, which also matured first and was very eagerly seeking a mate. Middle shelf matured and lasted somewhere in-between.

If by fly you mean a .3" housefly, sure. However, surely a .5" inch blue bottle fly would be significant for a 1" T, and a 1" Hermetia illucens would be significant for a 2" T. Apparently, like peanuts, my adult male P. metallica couldn't eat just one and ate over a half dozen in one evening...

Don't know much comparatively, except BSF have more calcium, which is mostly advantageous for feeding to vertebrates, crustaceans, and mollusks. Per gram, flies will have less nutrition than pupas or larvae...

I don't mind flipping coins to see what I get. I'm not desperate to get a pair, and enjoy raising them from slings, getting the most out of their short lives if they happen to males. I got all my slings from two or three vendors, though I lost track which was which, so these might be siblings. I...

BSF larvae are terrestrial and Poecilotheria are arboreal. I think mine only comes to the ground when desperate. Also the larvae would just bury themselves if they got out of whatever dish I put them in. It would be cool if a T would discover the pupas and eat them out of a dish, but not even...

Now I have to ask, why not?