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Which is your favorite species?

This is an interesting thread. Guest I suggest trying to keep them alive as pets and they will almost certainly all die.

I have a pair left from last summer if you're still looking.

Roachforum's place as the oldest continuously running forum will be coming to an abrupt end at the end of the month. I thank so may contributors over the years including many who have died. Especially thanks to Peter Clausen for keeping it running for many years. If you want any content please...

These guys seem pretty easy, very happy about that.

Invertebrates-Magazine August 2024 Ed. notes   Our Immortal article is by Danish invertebrate editor and author Tom Larsen. Black leather-leaf slug captive breeding and care is described and an organic pitfall trap for meat eating beetles is reviewed with counts attached. A short safari...

New growing young from early June 24 and July 10 this year (from two different parent sets, 2000 bloodline). $110/e unsexable at 2nd/3rd instar.

  Rhinoceros roaches only have babies once a year around November Australia. In captivity they also only give birth once a year, not seldom once or twice in a lifetime even if the female lives eight or ten years total (total lifespan for some dozens and a few...

April 2024: Phidippus borealis and P. tyrelli observations in Montana, two-spot Pacific cockroach, giant leopard slug Limax maximus, and pink and blue bristleworms or fireworms. $7 USD TOS: Price includes shipping to USA and territories only. No returns.

One of the very biggest terrestrials pied (partial albino) tri-color (orange, black and white) various immatures. Adult males of this of this species have extremely long, sword-like tails (uropods). 

New growing young from early July (from three different parent sets, 2000 bloodline). $110/e unsexable at 2nd/3rd instar.

Very excited this finally came together after another decade plus. Lots of new information and species accounts.  Milliped Zoology: Husbandry and Diversity of the Class Diplopoda by Orin A. McMonigle, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Macropanesthia rhinoceros 2000 stock Unsexed nymphs born June and July 2023 $119 

The images on those vendor pages appear to be what we have long called fusca, no matter what it is it is not giganteus. It is a big species but tiny compared to giganteus. Compare those images to the coloration of the real giganteus: 

December 2022: Violet Ridged Milliped, Rainy Season in Orlando, Palearctic flower beetles, Tafalisca eleuthera bush cricket, and arthropod teratology Part IV.