i cannot express my love for pseudoscorpions

interesting centipede molting video

a friend that i just made!

anyone know what he is? i’m thinkin american dagger moth he flew in through my window!

i love the way moths hang on to you for dear life

animalplanet:

i remember when you were thiiiiiis big

aww my old praying mantis

RIP girll :(

two freshly molted B. dubia females compared to one of my older ones

best friends

freshly matured female b. dubia

pretty good lookin’ for a cockroach

insectlove:

my-love-for-photography: http://my-love-for-photography.tumblr.com

laurasalzhauer:

Millipede - Taken in Miaranony, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

devils flower mantis

18 babies!

i bought a male and female b. dubia two weeks ago at the pet store with intentions to eventually start a colony and feed some to my tarantulas. 

i wasn’t expecting to get babies this fast! she must have already been gravid when i bought her. :)

this was a nice surprise and a good start to my future colony!

Ant Death Spiral

This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. How crazy is that? Sometimes they escape, though. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, “with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest.”

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