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  1. mitchnast

    Urgent help needed

    I've kept grigs before, they are obligate cannibals, Even in nature, when they meet to mate, the female eats the fleshy pads that are the males wings. It's a sort of offering. But if you keep them together its all just munch munch munch gone. The males fleshy wings are a sort of adaptation...
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    My first Amblypygid!

    i totally need some of these.
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    Name that thing!

    I think it looks like the underside of a crab
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    Anyone ever keep Antrodiaetus?

    I find the best place to find Antrodiaetus is in chalky, sandy hillsides, with gregarious vegetation, and near moisture. Though I also find them in dry fields. The seem to have their holes open more often after a rain, at night. Old river banks, oxbow banks, roadside ditches with easily...
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    Sydney Funnel Web Found in ARKANSAS!

    terrible photos. but looks like some type of trapdoor spider, probably native.
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'Tan+Orange back?'

    phidippus sp.
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'ID?'

    P. cancerides. quite sure of it
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    Identification Assistance

    some obscure malaysian orb weaver. theres genus out there that you just cant find data on. one genus of orb weavers native to malaysia is "Perilla" but i cant find anything on them at all. that are just as likely to be nothing like this.
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'P.subfusca'

    them's sac-bearin hips
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'P. Metallica'

    I aggree with male
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media '4" P. Fasciata'

    SO very very male!
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'Avicularia Avicularia Sexing'

    Not obvious, but leaning female
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'A Hentzi'

    I'd go male, those 1st BLs are pretty crowded
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'B. Klaasi'

    Im leaning towards male, But youll never reach maturity if you dont overcome that parasitic mite issue
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    My wife is getting me a Heterometrus spp. for Christmas. What should I name it?

    I wanna heterometerus for christmas only a heterometerus wil doooooooo!
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'H. schmidti 2nd pic?'

    I see what your think are spermanthecae, but are not.
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    How accurate is National Geographic?

    Hippos kill plenty of people.
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    Comment by 'mitchnast' in media 'Unidentified Spider'

    MM Antrodiaetus Sp. By color i'd guess pacificus, but they are more west of the coastal mts, and one of the larger species of this genus.
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    New suspects found in honey bee colony collapse.

    Well, I'm just going to throw my 2 cents in and suggest an observation. See, I've noticed that bees congregate at irrigation ditches where there is an access of duckweed, they alite on the duckweed to drink the water at the surface. The most duckweed congested water, would be the water...
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