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Mike's Scorpions: February 2009

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A blog all about . . . what else? Sunday, February 22, 2009. More babies on the way? So I know I haven't updated in a long time - mainly 'cause our SLR died in December and I prefer to provide pictures when I update. I've had a few deaths, a few molts, etc. since the last update. But I checked on the communal U. mordax. Tank today and thought I saw embryos through the tergites of one of my females while she was stinging her prey. Huzzah! She's definitely reformed the embryos but refuses to pop.

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Mike's Scorpions: October 2008

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A blog all about . . . what else? Saturday, October 25, 2008. U mordax molt to 3I, new T. stigmurus. The first Uroctonus mordax. From July's brood molted to third instar this week. The molt went from Monday night into Tuesday morning, and these photos were taken on Saturday. This is at an age of approximately three months. A couple of the others look almost ready to molt as well. One or two don't look anywhere near it and don't seem very interested in prey. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. The whole display ...

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Mike's Scorpions: January 2009

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A blog all about . . . what else? Saturday, January 10, 2009. Checked on the Hottentotta. Today The pudgy one molted, and the slender one died. No great surprise there. I just hope that among the survivors I have at least one male / female pair that survives to adulthood. If I succeed and breed a second generation, I'm DEFINITELY setting up a hotbox for the young. I checked on my limited tarantula collection - one of my OBTs and my Avicularia versicolor. Thursday, January 1, 2009. I'd post pics, but the ...

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Mike's Scorpions: Notes

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A blog all about . . . what else? Wednesday, September 16, 2009. So I don't forget what happened tonight. Male B, female 3:. Male C, female 4:. Male D, female 5:. Several juveniles wandering off female. Majority swept from female's back prior to moving her to a separate container. Will hopefully separate all second instars tomorrow evening. Current brood size estimated at 20. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Notes, Part II. Centruroides at Second Instar. About the Weird Guy. View my complete profile.

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The Insect Blog: April 2011

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Thursday, April 21, 2011. Knulliana Cincta- The Banded Hickory Borer. A relatively common beetle in Carolina springs. I tend to find them either by lights at night or on porches in between the vinyl wall pieces in the early morning. They are quite amazing longhorn beetles with a body length sometimes surpassing AN INCH! Their antennae can sometimes be more then TWICE that though, a quite impressive length. Here are 3 of them in my collection:. Sunday, April 17, 2011. Saturday, April 16, 2011. I want to l...

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Mike's Scorpions: Centruroides sculpturatus Mating

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A blog all about . . . what else? Saturday, September 26, 2009. Last week, I separated the second-instar young from my female Centruroides sculpturatus. Yesterday I brought her and my two males to work with me; she was in one container, and the two males in another. I traded her places with one of the males to prepare for a trade later in the day. Which continued for roughly half an hour. They were not disturbed by moving the container around to show my colleagues what was going on. Notes, Part II.

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Mike's Scorpions: May 2009

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A blog all about . . . what else? Saturday, May 2, 2009. Another Uroctonus mordax Hunt. After showing a professor of mine a U. mordax. And letting him hold it, he got excited enough to want to go catch some. On top of that, his youngest daughter is a budding bugoholic and also got excited at the prospect of finding scorpions. So, tonight we headed off to my favorite scorpion-hunting site in Oregon - myself, my professor, his wife, and their three kids. The pile was exhausted so we headed up the hill to c...

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Mike's Scorpions: Uroctonus mordax Spermatophore

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A blog all about . . . what else? Friday, September 18, 2009. I brought the spermatophore in to work on Wednesday and got a few closeups under the microscope. Very interesting and bizarre. The larger version of this picture is available here. And a few more shots can be found in this. I've also uploaded several videos from Tuesday night's attempts to my YouTube account. Including one of male D's rejection. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Notes, Part II. Centruroides at Second Instar.

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Mike's Scorpions: July 2009

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A blog all about . . . what else? Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Update more frequently" . . . HA! Well, at least my dad gave my fiancee his decent point-and-shoot, so I no longer have an excuse to not take pictures. My former professor returned from Arizona with a handful of Vaejovis spp. The largest of which appeared to be a heavily gravid V. spinigerus. If you're in the Soleglad and Fett camp). More on her later. From Arizona also had a pile of young on her back. Molting to second-instar yesterday morning:.

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Mike's Scorpions: June 2009

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A blog all about . . . what else? Saturday, June 6, 2009. Mordax Hunt and Miscellaneous Updates. The second annual BugZoo camping trip was last weekend. Last year I found the scorpions featured in this. Post, and as we booked the same campground, I hoped to catch a few more this year. I had also been contacted by a researcher in the Midwest interested in doing a developmental study on this species who had requested that I collect a few gravid females for him. On a side-note, if anyone reading this is con...