Harbinger's freaky ass pets
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TransformerRobot
Robot in disguise
Yeah, but Pokemon is just a video game, this is with real bugs, real animals.
Hjoldir-Hildwulf
One day, yes one day! Mwhahaa!
Sphinx ligustri?
Nice
I've tried a few moths but i havent had any success with them, here's an old pic from a while ago now with my old digital camera.
But of course
I can't place your moth, is it a relation to Opodiphthera eucalypti?
I have to say Harbinger, after looking at your room, you're giving me buffalo bill vibes from The Silence of the Lambs... :V
Harbinger
The Last of Us.
Hahah you should have seen it when i had about 40 Acheronia atropos
Didnt managed to get them breeding though which was a major annoyance.
The moth pictured was a Antherina suraka, think if i try moths again it'll be when i have enough privet growing and i can get some Atlas's
Didnt managed to get them breeding though which was a major annoyance.
The moth pictured was a Antherina suraka, think if i try moths again it'll be when i have enough privet growing and i can get some Atlas's
Hjoldir-Hildwulf
One day, yes one day! Mwhahaa!
Hahah you should have seen it when i had about 40 Acheronia atropos
Didnt managed to get them breeding though which was a major annoyance.
The moth pictured was a Antherina suraka, think if i try moths again it'll be when i have enough privet growing and i can get some Atlas's
Called it! Just don't go offering people any lotion and we'll be fine and dandy :V
Ah Acherontia Atropos, a biter if ever there was one. I love the noise the moth makes, sounds remarkably like a dog toy
Oh a Suraka Silk moth, well I wasn't too far off, they're both part of the Saturniidae genus after all
You'll enjoy the Atlas moths! Dusty, fat caterpillars though! They get through some bloody privet -_-
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TransformerRobot
Robot in disguise
What about emotional harm? Or do insects have emotions like everything and everyone else does?
Hjoldir-Hildwulf
One day, yes one day! Mwhahaa!
I'll tell you about emotional harm. Raising beautiful Saturnia Pavonia from eggs, only to let them be free once they're old enough, they never come back... :'(
Harbinger
The Last of Us.
There isnt any harm done, they are swapped between experienced keepers. When you breed them you cant possible keep every single one when you have multiple species producing hundreds of offspring each.
CaptainCool
Lady of the lake
But what about their attachments to you?
They are insects. Bugs are robots, they literally don't have emotions.
By saying they are robots I mean that they are so simple that they are purely driven by instincts. Only their natural "programming" tells them how they have to act.
For example, try approaching a cockroach with a vaccum cleaner from behind. It will turn around and run straight into it! Why? Because its instincts tell it that air running over its body from the front to the back means that someone is breathing on it from the front. It's a bug in the bug's coding so to say
Misomie
Lazy Artist
Nice pets.
@mcjoel- I've kept jumping spiders as a kid but recently had a pet cockroach (Pickles) and a giant widow I caught at school (Midnight). It's been awhile but I think my roach ended up living a year and the widow two years (actually, maybe 3. I caught her in eighth grade and had her until 11th?) . Once she got old she stopped eating. It was pretty sad to watch her deteriorate like that. I'd even make the bugs super easy to catch but she just lost her appetite. :<
@mcjoel- I've kept jumping spiders as a kid but recently had a pet cockroach (Pickles) and a giant widow I caught at school (Midnight). It's been awhile but I think my roach ended up living a year and the widow two years (actually, maybe 3. I caught her in eighth grade and had her until 11th?) . Once she got old she stopped eating. It was pretty sad to watch her deteriorate like that. I'd even make the bugs super easy to catch but she just lost her appetite. :<
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Verok
Guest
Nice pets.
@mcjoel- I've kept jumping spiders as a kid but recently had a pet cockroach (Pickles) and a giant widow I caught at school (Midnight). It's been awhile but I think my roach ended up living a year and the widow two years (actually, maybe 3. I caught her in eighth grade and had her until 11th?) . Once she got old she stopped eating. It was pretty sad to watch her deteriorate like that. I'd even make the bugs super easy to catch but she just lost her appetite. :<
That reminds me, a few years ago I used to have a cockroach that lived in my bathroom. Don't know why I didn't kill it at first sight. Anyways, every time I went to the bathroom at night, I would see it scurrying around on the floor. Once it saw me, it was like "oh crap!
" and would run as fast as it could into a small gap (probably it's 'house' or whatever roaches call it) below the door frame. This routine kept on happening for months, until one day it never showed-up. I don't know if it died or just moved away, but in some ways I still miss that magnificent little bastard.
Harbinger
The Last of Us.
I got some fancy roaches myself, although dont see them much as they're secretive burrowers.
In other news, my most expensive mantis moulted to adult the other day, the colouration is unfreakinbelievable, photo's really dont do her justice.
Depending on the angle her wings can be red, orange, yellow, or green and were even purple just after she matured.
Check out my gallery to see her other colours.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/
In other news, my most expensive mantis moulted to adult the other day, the colouration is unfreakinbelievable, photo's really dont do her justice.
Depending on the angle her wings can be red, orange, yellow, or green and were even purple just after she matured.
Check out my gallery to see her other colours.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/invertsfromhell/
Zagzagel
New Member
I remember I was riding my motorcycle along the south-eastern US coast when I was hit in the chest by a stag beetle. I was doing about 75mph, and I thought I'd been shot, and I nearly crashed my bike. (I've been shot before, and I can tell you it's not pleasant.) I had no idea how big those things got. I was wearing a heavy leather jacket over a flannel shirt and undershirt, and I still wound up with a bone bruise.
When I lived in San Francisco, I had a friend who owned a South-American Brown Tarantula. This was a BIG spider with a leg-span of almost a foot. One day he noticed she wasn't eating, and had a large bulge between two of her legs. He was very worried about her, but didn't know where to take her. I mean, what vet treats spiders? Most of them just laughed at us. Finally, one suggested we take her to the Entomology department at Berkeley. So we called them and the fellow there said to bring her on down. So he looked at her and said she had a cyst, common to tarantulas. He drained it with a needle (that's when I discovered that tarantulas' have blue copper-based blood) and she seemed to perk up. Later that night when I called him he said that she ate all of her pinkies as was doing well. He still had her two years later when I moved from the Bay Area. (I have no idea how long tarantulas live.)
When I lived in San Francisco, I had a friend who owned a South-American Brown Tarantula. This was a BIG spider with a leg-span of almost a foot. One day he noticed she wasn't eating, and had a large bulge between two of her legs. He was very worried about her, but didn't know where to take her. I mean, what vet treats spiders? Most of them just laughed at us. Finally, one suggested we take her to the Entomology department at Berkeley. So we called them and the fellow there said to bring her on down. So he looked at her and said she had a cyst, common to tarantulas. He drained it with a needle (that's when I discovered that tarantulas' have blue copper-based blood) and she seemed to perk up. Later that night when I called him he said that she ate all of her pinkies as was doing well. He still had her two years later when I moved from the Bay Area. (I have no idea how long tarantulas live.)
Harbinger
The Last of Us.
I saw some Goliath birdeaters at a recent exhibition, they are ridiculously huge.
Anyway, some more recent pics.
Have a Spiny flower mantis riding a new species of rare spiny stick insect whilst eating a fly.
Spot the Australian cigar stick insect.
Same mantis wrestling a bigger fly.
Rare and very fancy stick insect.
Anyway, some more recent pics.
Have a Spiny flower mantis riding a new species of rare spiny stick insect whilst eating a fly.
Spot the Australian cigar stick insect.
Same mantis wrestling a bigger fly.
Rare and very fancy stick insect.
Harbinger
The Last of Us.
The Cigar stick insects matured.
And no photo's yet but i've just the a jungle nymph turn adult, now these are fucking monsters, one of the biggiest and chunkiest arthropods out there, they arent nearly as long as the foot long species but they are so much more fatter, like a massive ass hamster.
And no photo's yet but i've just the a jungle nymph turn adult, now these are fucking monsters, one of the biggiest and chunkiest arthropods out there, they arent nearly as long as the foot long species but they are so much more fatter, like a massive ass hamster.
