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Getting out of the DC area for a bit? Lucky you. We're stranded here for the time being, as it were. Feh. Healthy & well-kept ones generally are, IME ;) Anyway, check your email, and feel free to reply (or not). Best Regards, ~JMB

Sorry for the tardy reply... ...But life has been a bit more hectic lately than usual. Because I use a small amount of a stock formula (consisting of hydrophobic parabens, with propylene glycol and ETOH as the final surfactant) which is then added a few mL's per liter, to the water which I...

Further discussion on the matter available... ...At the following URL: http://atshq.org/forum/showthread.php?p=125584#post125584 I didn't see a point to crossposting what I already wrote there (unless anyone here cannot access the ATS forums for whatever reason, and wants me to repeat...

Actually, that's where this is all going... I agree completely -- that's where this is all going, anyway, although the point is for me to culture it (and not any possibly secondary pathogen/happenstance microbe or otherwise) and send it up to ARSEF. Not being a mycologist, I'm not...

There Are No Heroes. Anywhere. That's kinda like my parroting of the HST line about "not wanting to advocate drugs & violence...But they've always worked for me" :) Seriously, though, I just tell people that if they're worried about their scorpions, they need to be handled more -- it...

While not trying to encourage bad behaviour.... Something worth pointing out is that, when it comes to professional keepers of 'hot' Inverts (think, say, Med Research facilities, or the University of AZ keeping Barks, etcetera), they would oftentimes try desensitization (prophylaxis) by doing...

Holy Bat P1$$! Whoa :( Having endured some incredibly painful and predominantly trauma-related injuries, in civilization and in the field (up to & including an open/compound fracture of both the radius & ulna -- nothing quite like the privilege of seeing your own bones coming out of the...

Anyone have any thoughts on this...? Please, by all means, say so if you do... In line with my current research, check out the (admittedly ghetto -- and I mean HEINOUS ghetto) pictures at: http://www.sculpturatus.com/07.05.2008/ As I already put a quick write-up in the folder itself, I...

Well, as I can honestly say.... ...That not only have I NEVER made money from scorpions or anything related, instead, in point of fact, having spent literally thousands of dollars of my OWN money in research, documentation, ad infinitum, and I *still* accidentally call them C...

Definitely. My existence is more than enough to piss off at least two of mine that I can think of (and see from where I'm currently sitting). ;D ~JMB

Actually, there IS documented evidence of Parabuthus transvaalicus being capable of spraying venom.. While I don't have it in front of me, I do have a paper somewhere which documented a P. transvaalicus actually spraying venom NOT in a defensive fashion, but for prey acquisition -- IIRC, it...

Actually, this is a rather skewed way of looking at things... ...Then again, as Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) once said, 'There are lies, Damned lies, and Statistics.' First -- just to keep nomenclature straight -- when you refer to Centruroides exilicauda you (presumably...) mean the...

I'm still REALLY short on time.... Yes, SubGenius Time Addiction [tm] strikes again! And again! And -- oh, never mind.... Definitely -- I'll put some aside for you. As I'm at a bit of an impasse as to what or how to price it (realistically, considering I'm doing...

I'll respond with a more complete exegesis on this topic shortly... ...But for now, I'm going to leave everyone reading this with a few thoughts. If you have any questions about just how spectacularly well fungi can spread, I can only direct people to do a few Internet searches; look...

Something I wanted to post in the For Sale thread (but can't add to Veneficus's post)... Hope this is appropriate; I didn't see the point of adding another thread when she'd already put one there, and she is currently occupied so doesn't have the time for doing an edit. In addition to what...

Neglected Pics which I WILL be posting more of... ...Just the second I find the !^%#$ SDRAM card where I put the pictures I took of the scorpion in question last month (all time & date-stamped, naturally). Until then, I've thrown up just these two which I just now took of the shed exuvia...

I'm presently fine when it comes to ...Both home & transportation - but thanks for the offer. Actually (while we have one car too many at the present time) I suppose we *could* get rid of one and make room for the Ferrari, though. What year/model? ;D ~JMB

Thanks for your input :) Thanks, and please, feedback is welcomed: whether you think I'm on a Snark Hunt, or whether my reasoning is sound, I'd like to hear it. Buy me a nice new Laminar Flow Hood & a few thousand dollars for a really decent microscope :D ~JMB

Scorpions don't eat solids, either -- they have to 'eat' the same way (essentially) other arachnids do: liquid diet only. Actually, the chelicerae shred the food while the bristles forming the maxillary brush strain it (not to get into too much detail over the exchange of digestive fluids &...

Hi, While I've been a keeper/observer/researcher/what-have-you of inverts (primarily scorpions) for some years now, this will be the first time my wife & I will be attending a show on the other side of the table (so to speak). As she has something nearing Avogadro's number of Tarantulas...