Forum: Insects

Silver Y (Autographa gamma f. gammina)

This morning after feeding the birds I noticed this wee moth outside the kitchen door. It measured about 2cms and looking at it later had a...

Mark and I went for a long walk yesterday in the Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield, Hampshire. The park is about 1400 acres and includes...

Velarifictorus longifrons (Ratchaburi province, western Thailand) This very unusual cricket, introduced to the hobby by us in...

Hello everyone! A friend told me that beetle jelly would make a good subsitute as roach food.What do you guys think about it? Cheers

Mark took some pics of this handsome chap yesterday in our garden.

Found this guy sat on a blade of grass yesterday-it was cool and dull and the cold was making rhe bugs quite lethargic-good for us 'togs! Seems...

Tiny little beast having a good munch on a bean weevil

I found this dead bee in the bath and set out to photograph it. I stepped up the magnification by reversing a Pentax 50mm f1.7 onto my 100mm macro...

Dug these up too to give them some fresh substrate too

I was just out this evening taking a stroll at our local country park and spotted this commotion going on, on the ground-as soon as i noticed it the...

I'm really pleased with how this grab shot came out! I just snook up on him with the camera, gradually getting closer.

I was out running today and saw this on the trail. It is about 11 cm long, not very aggressive or defebsive and was looking under rocks at quite a...

Hi all, I received 11 P.biguttata today and have to say they are fearless I have a range of sizes from 1.5cm - 1inch and they will take crickets...

Wow .. my a/f Giant Asian Mantis layed three !!! oothecas over night .. a shame that all three are 100% phantom ooths as she was never mated :O_o:

For the last two days I kept hearing my mantis banging against the container.. Then I realized that I had a tub of locusts besite its enclosure so I...

... there is me waiting for flies and moths to hatch (never seen it) and that damn thing keeps eating the almost black coocoons and makes a right...

My Giant Asian Mantis shed into an adult two days ago I bought her as a second instar (was told it was second and it was weeeeeeny small) in...