You know your really into inverts when...

[Arthroverts]

"...When you chuck the regular curriculum and teach your kids the alphabet hobby-style: A is for Aphonopema, your very best friend. B is for Blatta, your very best feeder. C is for Cupiennius, your very fast friend..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[aphono]

When friends and family make up novel greetings or have a little bit of fun using invert related movements with you. Recently some family members got to witness some of my whipspiders engage in prey hunting behaviours. Over the holidays my family got a huge kick out of doing the amblypygi whip action at me- both arms out wide with one hand tapping my shoulder from behind...

and then they take great delight in explaining it to observers and telling me to show them videos. All great stuff.

 

[Arthroverts]

When friends and family make up novel greetings or have a little bit of fun using invert related movements with you. Recently some family members got to witness some of my whipspiders engage in prey hunting behaviours. Over the holidays my family got a huge kick out of doing the amblypygi whip action at me- both arms out wide with one hand tapping my shoulder from behind...

and then they take great delight in explaining it to observers and telling me to show them videos. All great stuff.

That is just too cool! I guess that means you are the prey though...

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[aphono]

That is just too cool! I guess that means you are the prey though...

Thanks,

Arthroverts

Yep! Fortunately the end results were a hug.. so far. I should be more cautious....

 

[Arthroverts]

There sneaking up on you, just like the real amblypygi! You need to take a few runs in the cricket simulator...

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[ThorsCarapace22]

When your son has so many tarantula toys you cant walk through the living room without thinking every single tarantula in your care escaped. : ) Boom!

 

[Arthroverts]

"...When you get in trouble because there's dirt in the sink (and accompanying dishes) from when you washed out your last enclosure..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[Ratmosphere]

Oh also, you know when your really into inverts when you have a ton of "bug" tattoos.

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

When someone goes to water one of your pets and you yell from across the room, "No, not that water! The other water!"

 

[Nicholas Rothstein]

Oh also, you know when your really into inverts when you have a ton of "bug" tattoos.

I'm getting a centipede tattoo this year
0_0 hahhahaa

 

[Arthroverts]

"...When random invertebrates start just showing up and you have no idea where they came from..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

P.S This is not a joke. I had a carpenter/solitary bee end up buzzing around a lightbulb, various other non-normal flying insects springing up, and now yesterday a full-sized darkling beetle just appeared on the carpet. Hadn't even collected any darkling beetle that looked anything like it for several months, and I did not have one before. Je ne comprends pas...

 

[ColeopteraC]

‘When vases of foodplant for phasmids adorn your dining table’

‘You know, in case the parks close.’

 

[The Mantis Menagerie]

...when your phone has more T pix than people pix...

Out of approximately 22,000 photos on my phone, most are bugs and/or plants and only around 200 are of a person (often with a bug).

"...When your friend asks 'Why do you have micro-screen over the air conditioning vents?' And you say cooly,
"Oh, that's to keep the H. mac from getting into the HVAC again'..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

That also is a requirement of a USDA containment facility, so I will probably do that eventually.

"...When you get in trouble because there's dirt in the sink (and accompanying dishes) from when you washed out your last enclosure..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

While I emphatically tell people that it is not technically dirt, I still have to periodically clean the pipes after I plug them up with coconut fiber build-up.

When someone goes to water one of your pets and you yell from across the room, "No, not that water! The other water!"

No one else does anything for my pets. With my USDA permits, I am able to justify absolute and autocratic control of the bug room.

 

[MantisGirl13]

...when every container is a potential enclosure
...when your neighbors think you're crazy because you run around outside acting like a little kid with a butterfly net
- MantisGirl13

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

No one else does anything for my pets. With my USDA permits, I am able to justify absolute and autocratic control of the bug room.

It's an honor to have my contribution to this thread quoted. You see, we only have a bug corner, and while I like to think I'm in charge of it, I don't have any permits that say so

 

[aprilmayjunebugs]

When you know it's time to clean the roach bin based on the frequency of escapee dreams you've been having.

 

[draconisj4]

When the total of your quarantine supplies consist of a giant box of cork bark, extra veggies and 5 lbs of dry food for the roaches, extra dried crickets for the desert beetles, repashy for the isopods. and 6 new sterilite bins.

 

[chanda]

@SonsofArachne, .

"...When you are desperate enough to wade through the water, the mud, and the cold to find that one aquatic hemipteran when every other reasonable person is inside..."

Thanks,

Arthroverts

Does that mean you're desperate? I just thought that was the normal way to get them!

Of course, there are those nights where you find yourself hip-deep in water, holding the flashlight in your teeth, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, while trying to get a catch cup around a fishing spider before the batteries die.

And of course, the night you drive home barefoot and sans pants (to keep from getting the car's upholstery covered in mud) because that aquatic invert was just a smidge out of reach, but you were sure you could get it from the shore without having to take off your shoes and go wading. (Turns out, I couldn't. Leaned out just a little too far, slipped in the mud...and ended up soaked and muddy head-to-toe.)

 

[Rhino1]

..."when my friends and colleagues bring me every darn insect, redback and wolf spider that they find"
C'mon people, give the man tarantulas!

 

[DARAPTOR]

"you threatened to kill your best friend for tapping your mantis enclosure glass"