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A pic from tonight.

Three orange pieds have made an appearance. Unsure if that can be fixed, the melanin reduction seems to be very ever changing.

One of my four lines of Heterometrus silenus produce red brown females. What the heck?

Update - there are some orange F2s. Evidence suggests either there was a cross, however unlikely, or it is a spontaneous mutation. Once again, I am flummoxed by the genetics.

Update - a few whites and pieds are showing up. Still not sure what is going on genetically.

Working on fixing this pearlescent morph. Pictures, especially low res, do not come close to capturing the pearlescense.

North Carolina State Agricultural & Life Sciences Department determined of the twenty naturally occurring amino acids, at least ten must be present in an insect’s diet. These ten, called essential amino acids, include lysine, tryptophan, histidine, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine...

It is always good to have a helper. We collect around 20 large contractor bags each fall.

Looking for a starter culture of the black & white form of Porcellio expansus. Have Cubaris Duckies, Blonde Duckies, Champagne (Soil), a Red Tiger line that produces T- albinos, and others. Several Mediterranean Porcellios, common Porcellios, and Armadillidiums.

It's a little late, but Soren Kierkegaard once said that productivity is the fruit of insomnia. So...thus far I have used several Cubaris in roach centric bioactive enclosures. Their productivity is excellent and other than the snafu with the Psycho Killer Pak Chong, it has worked beautifully...

Here is the stock selected in 2020. The 2021 stock regressed slightly, which is why the 2022 was so surprising.

Been working on this project for 6 years. Very slow, incremental progress until this year. Finally looking how I imagined. A pied was included for good measure.

Noticed a few of these in a mixed culture of Porcellio laevis Milkback x Orange. Other than the fact nobody else has been able to do the cross, I do not believe these are a cross due to the expression of melanin in the cuticle. I found 11 individuals in a culture of several hundred. Most of the...