Still alive and mating attemps hardwickei

[Androctonus_bic]

When in other parts in the world some people just dream with this sp., some other people in other part, always are one step in front. Very congratulations for your hard work!

Cheers
Carles

P.D: and of course, fingers crosed!

 

[super-pede]

Will you sell some.......to me....please?

 

[Richard McJimsey]

Will you sell some.......to me....please?

Remember to do it legally this time.

 

[JonathanF]

Haven't been here for quite sometime,
and apparently much has changed..

Steven, WOW! Like always, awesome pics!

Damn I really miss the hobby and the people around here...

 

[Steven]

and also a hardwickei up-date from Belgium

1st female plings gaining color and hardening up.

second female still on eggs (if she follows the 1st lady schedule, the eggs will turn into "macaroni" this week
(sorry for leaving the 2nd tergite orange on this one, ran out of black markers)

 

[zonbonzovi]

Great, now we're running out of overpriced *holy grails*

Congrats, Steven!

 

[JanPhilip]

Even more good news! Amazing to see how well the hardwickei breeding is going, hopefully it will continue like this. Will it be possible to buy any of these pedelings, if the come through?

Cheers,
Jan Philip

 

[Steven]

Will it be possible to buy any of these pedelings, if the come through?

i'm open for trades, but it's too early to say,... (have to be sure about enough offspring for the second generation breeding)
let's wait and see, fingers crossed.

 

[Crysta]

:0 im jealous... lol
amazing! i love the last picture of how shes all tightly protecting them adorable

 

[Greg Pelka]

In few months time they'll be given as a 'gratis' to S. subspinipes in Europe
Another success of Europe! How's about US :>

 

[peterbourbon]

Compared to the mass of hardwickei that are around in Europe I see it more like an epic fail. What about Poland?

 

[Galapoheros]

Lol, you guys are going to burn me out on hadwickei with all the pics before I even get a chance to buy any. It's hard to get dealers to look for them for customers here Maybe the dealers don't look for them much because of the low pede demand here, that's no good for me,(boohoo smilie)

 

[Greg Pelka]

Haha, Poland sucks

 

[Steven]

mother leaves the plings

To my big surprise and worry, this morning when i wanted to check on the hardwickei mother on top of the surface with NO plings

but when i moved the mother a bit aside, suddenly a bunch of plings started to come out underneath a corkbark,... and still a bunch were underneath it

it's the first time i've waited so long that the mother actually leaves the plings instead the plings leavign the mother.

 

[Steven]

And they allready started to eat
also quite large plings to my opinion,
they have a 35mm BL.

 

[Steven]

Round up

guess i'll share some data and info with you guys as well for stimulating more hardwickei breeding

mating:
female #1 + male #1 : 06/02/2010
female #1 + male #2 : 08/05/2010

eggs : 06/06/2010
nimph1 : 03/07/2010
colored plings : 29/07/2010
plings running free : 01/08/2010
amount of plings : 40
BL plings : 35 mm (BL=without antennae or terminals)

during the period from 01/06/2010 untill 01/08/2010 :
the temperature was at a constant 28C
and the humidity was at a constant 70%.

 

[peterbourbon]

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing.

The most difficult thing in separating the plings was the fact that most of them hided in tunnels of the bark. One tried to escape in my keyboard unter the letter "M", so I had to remove the letters "M", "N", "K", "L" and "J" to catch it again.

Cheers
Turgut

 

[Steven]

Ow yeah forgot about the second female:
also an update on her:

i've missed the "macaroni" stage but just caught her with white plings

i'm very curious to see if the plings of this clutch will also have an orange
(instead of black) second tergite like the mother, would be good to see how inheritance works on colorforms. (1st clutch has black 2nd tergite)

 

[Jürgen]

Hello Steven!

Great pics, great work, great plings :clap:

Congratulation to this lucky moment!

regards
Jürgen

 

[Crysta]

omg turgut those pictures of the plings eating the maggots(?) are so adorable (haha wow im a weird chick.)

I wish lil hardwickei where in canada i want to feed them some maggots lol

oh and congrats steven on your second clutch!!!