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Tell me about it, I have a fire phobia (and yet I'm a bit of a pyro too, oxymoronic, you betcha!!!) due to a fire next to my childhood home that killed several of my neighbors due to smoke inhalation. It was a combination of smoking in bed and too much alchohol, but me and my cousins loved them...

I have a thought. I was going to make a box, since I don't have any box the right size, just duct tape together cardboard boxes cut to fit, basically... And I was going to put the heater in the bottom, and have the shelf on some kind of a stand above the heater so it's not right on it.. The one...

I have 7 cats. One is 1/4 bobcat. I have her daughter, two of her grand daughters, a great grand son, a stray that my family fed for 6 years before she thought I'm getting too old for this outside life and moved in where she has it pretty good (she's also the fattest cat in the house) and a...

I can see it now, people being held hostage by the chicken mafia for mealworms.

I am sure they will do just fine. They really are pretty hardy things, and 1000 is a good number to start with if you're willing to let them grow, and in a few generations you;ll have enough to feed and freeze for your flock.

Yes, stay away from the giant mealworms. They have been treated with insect growth regulating hormones to get them to grow very large, and when you're able to get them to pupate into adults, the adults are sterile. Super worms are a different kind of worm, and they have different needs to get...

I got mine from petsmart, which isn't that great a deal. However there are a number of members of this board that sell them in bulk, which is the best way to go if you want to have a lot of them producing faster for you.

Poor baby, what a mean trick! I think it's worse that I'm laughing about it though.

The mini rotties I have aren't REALLY mini rotties, they have no rottie in them. I am working with a group of breeders that are trying to create this breed with dogs that look like rotties, but have no rottie in them. The lady who started them has been working these dogs for at least 10 years...

Not an apartment, a house. A small house, but a house none the less. We had 5 in the yard, 10 in the basement and 5 in the house proper. So long as any incidental roos are taken care of as soon as I see rooish characteristics, the chickens shouldn't be an issue... I just know that when I lived...

I have done it. I have read the whole thread. My own mealies are on their next generation, having grown up from the store purchase, turned into beetles, laid eggs, died, and now those eggs are turning into beetles too. I'm just maintaining the smallish colony, but when I move, I'm going to...

Well... oops. I forgot that the new container was air tight.. and I didn't check on the worms in like a week... And... well, I opened it, and got a nice whiff of slowly fermenting wheat bran scent, and all along the top were plenty of dead worms and beetles, lol. The good news is there were...

Good news, bad news, bad news and good news. The beetles are doing great, I have fat babies and though the adults are starting to die off, they still mostly kicking. I had a bad case of mold. I'm not sure how it got wet in my box, but when I went to check on them, everything was covered with...

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/species-of-the-day/biodiversity/loss-of-habitat/titanus-giganteus/index.html Biggest darkling beetle looking thing EVER. Seriously, search for images of Titanus giganteus. In other news, ALL of my mealies save one has turned into adults. I kinda sort of...

Yesterday my youngest daughter, play sister and I watched a pupa mostly unwrap itself and become a beetle. It was absolutely fascinating. I ran out of time when the legs were loose, but the wings weren't out yet. I need a camera with a HUGE memory card (or two) so I can film it. We KNEW that one...

Just sharing my progress.... I have reached page FOUR HUNDRED!!!!!!! Most of my larvae have pupated, I have a few that are being greedy, and eating everything while the others get down to the business of becoming adults. Dratted teens, looks like they're the same whether they're humans or bugs...

There has been something bothering me about this thread, and I just realized what it is. Microwaving the substrate. I get the impression that there are those that think that THAT is what kills the mites, and it's really not. Most bugs are not affected by microwaves for some reason. Maybe they're...

At this count, I seem to have 9 beetles, all black, but for one chestnut 19 very active mealies, one of which is super tiny 10 mealies that look like they're about to pupate 31 pupae (two that just pupated) That means 69 total.. I haven't seen any dead, or any munched, so if I got a 100 count...

I have a solder pen, that makes perfect sized holes in my opinion. You can then stuff the holes with a bit of fiber fill or batting. That allows some air flow, the fibers will act as wick of sorts, and pull the wet out of the container, while helping to block bad bugs from getting in. This is...

I now have SIX, count them SIX BEETLES!!!! And TEN, that's right TEN new pupae!!! Thems my new bebes!!! That's only one of the beetles, right now a couple of them have the dopies, where they fall and they can't get up for whatever reason. I just leave them alone, experience tells me...