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David Attenborough was prolonged exposure though as a kid on the way to school in chch found a large bumblebee intact dead on the foot path biked to school with it in my hand got into class and had to stand while teacher came in, so to hide it, put into the pocket of my baggy shorts, we were then told to sit down well as i sat down the pocket tightened and wham the most intense pain in the thigh and it kept stinging jumped up and pulled the shorts down to stop the stinging teacher was going to cane me for down trowing in front of class until he saw the size of the bumble bee that crawled out of my pocket 8)

now there is a lizard that i had in aussie hard to keep fed though in aussie we put turps in the tins, ants wouldn't try to bridge it any of the more agressive ants can kill the geckos or lizards not just the argentinian ones they can get in the ear passages

don't you want to play with uncle pervy 8)

yes is man faced bug

just got a good fright was sitting at the computer and felt something like a small mouse wriggling in my pocket ( yes you can insert the jokes here) slowly put my hand in my pocket and pulled out a brown furry slug about an inch long(insert more jokes) picked a cocoon of the emperor moth off the tree this morning thinking it was dead, no way is now pumping up his wings on the curtain seemingly no worse from the day in my pocket

is that a picture of the cage now to keep ants out, stand cage legs in tins of water or turps or antkiller to keep them out

only works if you blow up their nose just like a referees whistle

the emperors are cocooning now some of the caterpillars are 5 inches long

yes its a thai spider about 6 inches the way ive mounted it just shipped a bolivian blue leg tarantula out 8 inch span have another rehydrating these large spiders are hard to soften

just finished drying, wouldn,t have it in my hand if it was alive probably one of the more agressive spiders

this will eat yours coelacanth

got one of those in my collection, more of an orange colour though

name supplied from overseas wholesaler is eurypelma spinicrus though after research there is some dispute over that

if your over tauranga way we have giants and banded in the streams here

stop taking that morphine oscar big fish require big tanks, usually end up a problem for most people not as many people have big tanks also require other big fish, as big fish eat little fish, except the vegetarians

name a price to give us a starting point

found 15 eggs in their laying box didnt notice they had laid and mix had got a bit dry so eggs weren't the best. no worries the female in photo and the bigger one are carrying again so better luck next time

are yours laying yet?

tend to agree from photos provided the one on the left needs a good feed

pic from above full body, head and tail shot with age and size included will be best

from cuba? bred in thailand for the entomoligy trade don't discuss selling in this thread it may be moved pm me

the abdomen is usually fuller, this is a dead specimen

export and mounting

i think reptiles are called being "Gravid" when carrying young

not bad david does look similar laymans terms call it a tarantula but it really isnt