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My southern two-striped walkingstick babies are growing well. This is the first generation I have personally reared, but the largest seem about halfway to adulthood.

An extremely rare Phyllium giganteum male showed up at a local containment facility that has maintained a parthenogenetic colony for years.

F2 generation is here! Pruned my bioactive scorpion tank and filled the tank with enough food to (hopefully) last them more than a week.

I found an unusual piece of lichen today. First off, it tried to run away. Thanks to @invertebratedude for identifying it as a lacewing larvae, not owlfly as I had originally thought. I kept this piece of lichen and introduced it to my greenhouse to hunt aphids.

After just a month, my colony has generated an estimated quart of frass.

I apologize for the hiatus. Grubs 1 and 4 were dead when I did a 2-month check for the pupal cells, and I just stopped posting after that. I am back with a long-delayed final weighing for Grubs 2 and 3, both of whom are now in pupation chambers. (Grub 3 made a pupal cell against the plastic, so I know she is still alive.)

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