Surprise isopods from the garden

[Farouche]

Beautiful pods! How are your merulanellas doing? I get my 1st ember bees soon and am quite nervous!

Unfortunately, after several successful generations of babies, I messed up the ventilation with the Merulanellas, and they slowly declined, I only had them for about a year. My mistake was putting them in a small container because I wanted to make sure they get to breeding quickly, but the ventilation was worse than in my usual bins; while they do require high humidity, they seem to loathe stagnant air. I had some gnat issues until predatory mites took over, and while I don't believe these were an issue with the isopods themselves, they were symptomatic of the ventilation problems.

On the other hand, I'm working on my Oniscus asellus stock and have now 2 more tubs of them, one for high yellow selection and one for oranges (I don't like the BC maple oranges stock in the hobby so I'm going for something else). Here are some of the starter group for the yellows, they have reproduced but the babies are too young to get a clear idea of what their adult colouration will be like:

 

[Farouche]

An update on the Armadillidium depressum bin! I had found this single mom in the garden after the Ciaran storm that devasted everything, she had a full marsupium and had babies in my bin, and this is what they look like now! Mom visible in the first picture. The babies are much more colourful for now, we'll see if that sticks or not!

 

[TLSizzle]

They're so cute!

My garden had a ton of pods out yesterday morning. I think they liked the humidity.

 

[Farouche]

Thank you for sharing! They look so cute! I love the pattern variations.

 

[Farouche]

Doing a few projects with Oniscus asellus from the garden, getting some good orange individuals like this juvenile:


I'm not super interested in re-creating the B.C. Maple morph though. If they retain some high yellow characteristics from my colony, perhaps, otherwise I'd like to develop the orange traits seen in some other of my individuals, which are darker and retain more colouration than the faded out B.C. Maple. I think they're probably two different mutations though...

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

They're so cute!

My garden had a ton of pods out yesterday morning. I think they liked the humidity.
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I can’t find anything here on my traps to try to lure them out were removed by my mom. I went to the park, but could only find three.

 

[Farouche]

Recent finds from my walking around and getting grass stains on my knees: Porcellionides cingendus and probably Orthometopon planum (with more P. cingendus).

 

[pentapede]

Hello there again, have you heard about Oniscus asellus (from the garden), the most underrated isopod in the hobby? Well I found a very orange individual in my colony today.

I absolutely agree with the Title "the most underrated isopod in the hobby" I have had a large, thriving culture for a while now, and they are surprisingly active![/QUOTE]

 

[Farouche]

An update on the Armadillidium depressum bin! I had found this single mom in the garden after the Ciaran storm that devasted everything, she had a full marsupium and had babies in my bin, and this is what they look like now! Mom visible in the first picture. The babies are much more colourful for now, we'll see if that sticks or not!

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Update on the babies from the stranded Armadillidium depressum female! They've grown a lot and the colours are fading, moreso in some individuals! I haven't had a second generation yet but I suppose it could be on its way... I don't know how old the mom is, the rest was born in December I believe. It's just her and her 60-something (if not more) brood in the bin, quite unbelievable she carried all these at once as mancae in her marsupium.

 

[Farouche]

Hello! The A. depressum babies had babies on their own a couple months ago (so it took almost a year for them to grow and breed!). I need to take recent pictures.

My various Oniscus asellus breeding projects are going well, here for some "high yellow" I selected:




Additionally I found some pretty Philoscia muscorum last weekend to add to my Philoscia colony (video also includes some other sp.).

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[Brewser]

Always Nice to see more Isopods in their Attractive Armor, taking care of business.
Beautiful Collection.