Lude Generation

I've just got a text from a friend... he knows I like bugs and for the longest time I've been trying to convince the mrs we need one. He has them in stock from next week.

Fair enough I didn't make my case too well when I put a stick insect exoskeleton on the bathroom plant so she literally jobby herself (unintentionally) on the toilet.

But you have to admit this is amazing:



I think the fact that the males can fly and they regularly get to about 6inches in length puts her off. Might just get one and not tell her.

Awesome.

Looks like an Igor Siwanowicz photo? His stuff is amazing.

http://blepharopsis.deviantart.com/gallery/

BigTom wrote:http://blepharopsis.deviantart.com/gallery/

Some amazing pictures there.

Very cool pictures

Very cool photos! I liked the original Karate Kid film!

I was gonna say they look like about to perfom crane kick

Mind is made up

Check out the biseps on that muffin!

... What does it do?

Home security.. it's like the chuck Norris of the insect world

Not a lot to be honest. Stick some flies in there, it sits around looking like a flower and catches them. Spray the enclosure with water once a day, crank dat heat. Create a rainforest in your bedroom. An easy pet.

I'm much more of a 'stare at an animal for hours' person than 'walk behind this animal for hours' person.

My short list of wanted animals:

Panther chameleon
Mantis
White's tree frog

The only one she's agreed to so far is the chameleon... but nowhere near me can reliably get young that don't die after a few weeks. They only live for 5 years tops really, and I can only find adults of an unknown age. Not into getting adult animals anyway, especially when potentially they could be dead within a few years. The interesting thing for me with inverts and reptiles is the life stages you can see from young to adult, some of them you'd think were different species.

Mantids usually takes about 7-8 sheds before being an adult, so it's kinda cool to see one day you have a very light insect, then it pops out of it's own skeleton completely different.





The guy growing the above is actually in Yoevil