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  1. Steven Gielis

    Velvet worm breeding success update

    Sorry for posting in an old topic... @lychas: Where did you collected the animals? At least one species of Onychophora from Australia are communal. Maybe you have that species. Do you have any death specimen for identification? I have a New Zealand species, Peripatoides novaezealandiae...
  2. Steven Gielis

    Can someone identify this?

    It looks like a Holconia. Where is that picture shot?
  3. Steven Gielis

    Solifugid ID please?

    Do you know any keys available on the web?
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    Two of my Solifugids had eggs...

    And keep mites away! They really like the eggs :wall:
  5. Steven Gielis

    Id?

    They have a nasty bite to!
  6. Steven Gielis

    insect riddle

    Does anybody knows how to keep them? They are very interesting!!!
  7. Steven Gielis

    Pachycondyla spec. Malaysia nest

    Doesn't the US have some native Pachycondyla species?
  8. Steven Gielis

    Pachycondyla spec. Malaysia nest

    They just start to use the new set up. So I'll have to wait to shoot some more pictures. The nest is made of ytong. I don't know the correct English term for it. Fast building blocks maybe? White blocks of a rather soft material. Ytong absorbs water pretty well. The nest site is placed in 10...
  9. Steven Gielis

    do trapdoors eyes shine at night?

    Many spider species have a tapetum. The reflecting layer in the eye. The main eyes mostly miss a tapetum. I know Liphistius species also have a tapetum. Not shure for other families.
  10. Steven Gielis

    Hornworm moth care

    They are not yet pupated. Give it some time. 24x24x24 is fine but they won't fly that much in it. And they are certainly not able to eat in there. So you will have to feed them by hand.
  11. Steven Gielis

    My Tetramorium impurum won't tunnel in my Antworks

    Your colony is lost without a queen. Antworks is the worst thing to keep ants in. There are much easier setups which you can make at home with much succes. You can use test tubes and a plastic container to make a small set up. If the colony gets bigger you can make a nest out of plaster or...
  12. Steven Gielis

    Pachycondyla spec. Malaysia nest

    They are indeed primitive. You can not recognize the queen. I am not even sure there is any. But I have seen eggs and larvae. The genus Pachycondyla has several primitive forms of reproduction. There are species where the queen also forages when she starts up her colony. And there are species...
  13. Steven Gielis

    Rhagodes (?) - male

    Do you have females to? And are you selling?
  14. Steven Gielis

    Giant Panchlora question

    The adults can't get true the screen. The nymphs stay almost all the time in or on the soil. So they probably won't get there. Maybe the ventilation under the glass can cause some escapes.
  15. Steven Gielis

    how do you tell if your mantid egg sac is fertile?

    You can't tell if they have mated. But probably they will. Just wait and see :)
  16. Steven Gielis

    how do you tell if your mantid egg sac is fertile?

    On the outside there is no difference. But after a month you can cut a small slice of the ootheca and see if the eggs are developing. Offcourse you kill a few eggs. If there isn't any development or if everything is dried out the ootheca is probably unfertilized.
  17. Steven Gielis

    Carpenter ants reproducing now what?

    I use a nest with test tubes for small colonies: http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nest37vz.jpg They will use the test tubes as their nest. There is a small amount of water covered with cottonwool in every tube to keep the humidity up. You can feed them a mixture of honey and water...
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    Pachycondyla spec. Malaysia nest

    The ant arrived! Very impressive ones! Length about 14mm. They sting like a wasp. Some pictures feeding a midsize cricket:
  19. Steven Gielis

    Giant Panchlora question

    1,5 times bigger. Not that big at all. I have a colony of them.
  20. Steven Gielis

    Successfully Breeding/Raising Solifugids

    Are you certain that the females are fertilized? I have only breeding experience with burrowing species (Rhagodes sp.). But most species dig a shelter for oviposition. So important it is to keep a temperature of 28°C and the soil must be slightly moist. After oviposition the female will guard...
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