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Galapoheros

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Took this pic today, got home and only then noticed the two diddlys at the bottom of the image.
 

David_F

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Is the one pseudoscorpion eating the other?

Is the beetle Calosoma scrutator? Have you been able to breed this species?

That's a cool pic. :)
 

moose35

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thats an awesome pic......it really looks like 1 of them is getting chowed down on.



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I thought one was munching on the other too. But I looked at a better pic of the, yeah, Calosoma scrutator (I couldn't remember the name) and saw the two out of focus and walking around a distance from each other. So I think I just disturbed one and turned it over. It was around 40 degrees, the beetle was chilled out. I put everything back.
 

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I thought one was munching on the other too. But I looked at a better pic of the, yeah, Calosoma scrutator (I couldn't remember the name) and saw the two out of focus and walking around a distance from each other. So I think I just disturbed one and turned it over. It was around 40 degrees, the beetle was chilled out. I put everything back.
Heh, I misunderstood your first post and thought this was a pic of one of your enclosures.

Must be nice to be out in mid-January and finding bugs active. Pretty cool stuff. :)
 

cacoseraph

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can't see pic at work

is pic of phoresy?


also, pscorps have some similarities in breeding/mating ritual to real scorps... though 40*F seems a tit bit nipply for them to be exo'ing down



i think i went to set up a couple microtanks for these guys and some other stuff. take another try at them
 

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They were on the ground about 1" from the beetle. Don't know, one was shaped a little diff than the other, maybe male and female(?). Yeah a mico terr, a plastic cube or something like that. That'd be a good little desk terr. Would like to have a few Garypus titanius that get up to 12mm. That'd be a good size. A little easier on the eyes but practically impossible to get I bet. I may try and catch any more I see. Haha, "see", that's will be the problem. The beetle was overwintering in the chamber.
 
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