Panesthia Stuff and A New Addition

 Hello, welcome to another post.

I apologize for my absence from posting, got some work or study to do lately.

But anyway, I've got some great news with my Panesthia angustipennis. Not sure if I've ever showed them in my posts but I do have a small colony.


Panesthia angustipennis angustipennis 

They've actually been very easy to breed, I just keep them humid, feed them a lot of protein and food, and boom



Panesthia angustipennis angustipennis nymphs

I've actually had 2 batches, with the second one already in around I2 or I3.

And yeah, I've found around 20 or 30 little nymphs scurrying in the substrate, although the adults are slowly dying out from old age, I'm not too concerned due to the amount of nymphs.

Hopefully I can raise them well (which seems to be pretty easy so far).

Moving on, I had a new addition to the collection.



Armadillidium corcyraeum 

A species I've been wanting to keep for a while now, and I saw them for sale on a huge discount so I thought that this was my only opportunity to get them at a low price.

Super happy about these, and I hope I can breed them soon.

I received them as juveniles, as seen in the pictures. I'm not entirely sure how long they take to reach sexual maturity but I hope it isn't too long.

Even if it is, from what I've heard they aren't too hard to breed and have large litters of mancae, so I hope I can achieve that.

And lastly to wrap up this post, I'd like to share some images of Pycnoscelus tenebrigera, a species I received in August and seems to be a little slower breeder but quite long lived compared to other Pycnoscelus.

Some larger nymphs

Adult male

2nd or 3rd instar nymph

Unfortunately, at the current moment I haven't found any mature females yet, but I'm sure this one is soon to be.


Anyway, thats all for post. Thanks for reading and goodbye 🙏

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