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hello & welcome to the crevice! I keep a lot of wonderful creatures and encounter many others and post images of them for you to look at.
questions & DMs welcome, I need to talk about bugs always. for bug identification, submit photos + location to @crawlingkind
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Time-lapse of Paraphrynus cubensis amblypygids hatching from the eggsac attached to their mother’s underside and climbing on her back.
for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.
now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?
friends, today I caught the animal:
(all photographs by me)
do house centipedes play dead? i found one in the trash at work and when i got it out it flopped onto it's back and wouldn't move, but after prodding it a little and flipping it over it took right off
they usually don’t, but it might have been weak and exhausted and just lay there. even a healthy house centipede can’t sprint forever and will sit down to rest when pursued, but usually they never lay on their backs
do you have any advice for incorporating wild caught A. vulgare into a captive bred color morph culture?
for context, i have a mix of american magic potion, orange vigor, and a lighter shade of wild type in one enclosure, and a handful of wild caught A. vulgare (i assume) in another enclosure. i sometimes take the prettier or more interesting looking individuals from the wild caught bin and put them in with the captive bred ones.
i’m mainly just experimenting with colors for funsies, and it’s going well so far, but i wanted to ask another isopod keeper for some input.
thanks!
how you mix them is dependent on what you want—if there’s a specific color pattern you’d like by this combination let me know and I can give you advice on how to make the selection process easier
but if you just want to increase genetic diversity, mixing them however you’d like works. just be mindful that addition of a lot of wildtype animals will now skew the ratio of alleles towards wildtypes, and you’ll see many fewer funky colors from here on out. also be mindful of disease: quarantine new arrivals for a few months and make sure to check their belly color for any bright white opaqueness, as that’s a bacterial infection that can decimate a colony
Olm (Proteus anguinus), family Proteidae, far NW Italy
photograph by Matteo Di Nicola
Were these photos from an aquarium or something?? What is she doing out of the cave!! It's not safe out here! There are dinosaurs in the sky!!! 😔😔😔
I was trying to look up if there were more surface active olms and didn’t get anywhere but it did remind me that some olms reevolved eyes and pigment which I thought you’d like to see
Brown Creeper (Attidops cinctipes) made my day today 🥹
