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Managed to find another tiger beetle species. I am now attempting to captive-rear C. repanda: the bronzed tiger beetle.

I wish I could have videoed her high-speed hunting right before this, but it seemed unlikely that I could have gotten the camera inside the plastic shoe box without interrupting said hunt. Regardless, I managed to record her eating the Blatta lateralis roach nymph she caught afterwards.

For the third year in a row, I am attempting to rear six-spotted tiger beetles. The last two years, I seem to have only been able to catch one male each. This one seems to be a female, and I also started hunting them much earlier in their season. I should be able to catch more soon.

My southern two-striped walkingsticks are delighted that I found the time to feed them some more invasive privet.

I found peppered roach babies in my tank!

@invertebratedude commented about captive breeding on my last post. Here is a group of some of the baby Thyropygus pachyurus I have been raising since February 2020.

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