Roachbread's Bug Blog

 Hi everyone. Sorry for not posting here in a while, but welcome to another blog post. On January 10th of this year, I received a package from Spider Lover Petshop , consisting of around 10-12 specimens of Neostylopyga rhombifolia.  Neostylopyga rhombifolia (picture taken on January 30th) I was very stunned. To me, pictures don't really portray their beauty as well as when you see them in person. I was initially keeping them in a 200 quart storage bin with dry substrate, leaf litter, two food dishes and a carton hide and relied on fresh foods to keep them hydrated. This was the setup I was originally keeping them in. In just a couple of weeks, I have spotted a looooot of oothecas. They are so prolific! Female airing out an ootheca So then I waited. One by one, the adults started dying off, maybe out of old age. But around mid to late February, I finally spotted the first batch of nymphs. Harlequin nymphs I was very excited. There were around 20-30ish ooths, so I couldn't wait ...

 Hi everyone. Haven't posted anything in a while but I have some things so yeah. These are Bowie cf. crystaljapan. If that sounds familiar then... There's a song by David Bowie named Crystal Japan 🙈 But anyway, they are wandering spiders and I have just collected two. Bowie cf. crystaljapan adult/sub-adult This one is significantly larger than the other, and I have just caught these guys three days ago in a town called Berastagi. (There is a previous post of mine about it) I also took a juvenile. Bowie cf. crystaljapan juvenile When I first saw them, I thought they were a Lycosid. But they were lacking the large Lycosid eyes and could climb significantly better than my other Lycosids that I was already keeping. I found them inhabiting areas with a lot of foliage and moist, humid substrate in darker areas. I tried to replicate that with their enclosure. In the same location I found the two wandering spiders, I collected a lot of isopods, the species is unknown but they are Burm...

 Hello everyone. In this day alone (1/5/24) there were many very exciting things that happened. I would like to share today's experiences in this blog post. The scarlet millipedes (Trigoniulus corallinus) have been really active and thriving lately. They are voracious eaters too, and have produced some offspring. Scarlet millipede feeding on tomato They are absolutely tiny little pedelings, and my phone camera can't really take pictures of tiny stuff that well. So forgive me for that part, but here they are! Scarlet pedeling They are so cute. It will take quite a while for them to reach maturity, but it's not a big deal. Its just a few years... Right..? But anyway, I spotted around 10 or 15 offspring but I am sure there are more hidden below the substrate. So fingers crossed for them to grow well 😄 If you had read that post, remember the Argiope anasuja female I collected from Berastagi? She had just eaten her first meal with me. A. anasuja eating I dropped baby lobster ro...