Please help find me some bugs!

[Fooble]

Ill keep my eyes open for you ice cold milk.

[shamroth]

How would you sex parabuthus species? And is it legal to collect them in the western and northern cape as well?

[Ice Cold Milk]

How would you sex parabuthus species? And is it legal to collect them in the western and northern cape as well?

Parabuthus sp can be sexed by the number of pectin teeth...males have more. this is true for all Parabuthus species.

Most (but not all) Parabuthus can be sexed more easily by the size/shape of their pincers. Males have larger, more bulbous pincers than females.

A less reliable method of sexing is to see that males tend to be more slender. This only works for adult specimens.

I believe the Western Cape only cares about invertebrates coming in to the province. Otherwise the typical laws dealing with scorpion collecting apply? (no collecting of Hadogenes, Opistophthalmus, etc). I see no legislation, so I'm assuming this.
I already own P. planicauda, collected in Knysna.

[Buck Rogers]

Where did you go herpin, Buck?

out and about Joburg, like Northcliff, Douglasdale, West Rand etc.

[Ice Cold Milk]

Only have 4 of these, easy to find this time of year, keep an eye out!

[Durban Keeper]

Damn cute & I think your photo of the whip scorpion with her babies is amaizing.

[Ice Cold Milk]

That time of year again is quickly approaching us -
please let me know what bugs you can find!!

pm me here or email, thanks!
-=ICM=-

[Ice Cold Milk]

Just posting an answer to a question from another board member for a bit of clarity!!

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Hello!
you have to make sure you don't go collecting illegal stuff -
the only land dwelling "bugs" which are protected are Baboon spiders (except Harpactirella species...they are the really small ones), and Burrowing Scorpions and Flat rock scorpions (and one species of creeping scorpion, Opistocanthus asper).
All mantids, centipedes, stick insects, whipscorpions, etc, are legal to collect and ship inter-provincially without a permit.


Anyway, looking for the following:

Mantids - any species except invasive chinese mantids (the dull green ones). I pay more for P. wahlberghi (see Rob's thread - viewtopic.php?f=127&t=14841)

Centipedes - anything over 10cm

Scorpions - thick tails - ie: Uroplectes species and Parabuthus species, and Hottentotta species. Also looking for Lychas and Pseudolychas. Please no Hadogenes (flat rock), Opistophthalmus (burrowing), or Opistocanthus (Creeping scorpions) The three of these are illegal and can be ID'ed easily, as they have large pincers.

Spiders: Not really looking for any at the moment....

Whipscorpions - all types.

Stick Insects - large ones or small specimens of ones that grow large (ARBOREALS), easy to ID as they are typically green or brown and have straight bodies (as opposed to the grass/velt-dwelling stick insects, which are paler and have bent bodies...Not looking for those). Need males and females, as I'm unsure if females are parthenogenic in south africa. Take a look at Hein's thread, this is exactly the type of thing i'm looking for:
viewtopic.php?f=127&t=16648

Millipedes - any!! I could actually use a few A. gigas right now, those are very common. Keep an eye out for pill millipedes, pictured in my thread previously. I need specimens and DETAILED vegetation info from where they are found. These have never been reproduced in captivity as far as I know, and I'd like to give it a shot but I need to know their diet.

If you're interested, true millipedes can be sexed by looking for a "missing pair" of legs around the 7th-8th leg segment from the head. males are missing legs there.

Solfugids: any - preferably pairs.

can trade for stock listed on my site, or cash after a bit of bargaining

[Loretta]

Hi ICM

I don't go herping, but I live on a farm and often get various odd/different bugs out there. Have seen a stick insect 14cm long and have had beatifully odd mantii before. I could collect for you, but I typically find them on our wall or near our lights, so wouldn't be able to tell you what the stick insects eat etc. On top of that, I have no idea how to keep them for a period or how to send them off to you. I usually just admire the bugs, take a photo now and then and leave them further to their own devices.

I don't know if me collecting one bug once in awhile would be worth your time...
but I'm more than willing if you're interested and I couldn't be bothered with payment.

so let me know, preferably at LLelyveld@nwpg.gov.za

btw, great photos!
Loretta

[Bushviper]

Yesterday I got a callout to remove a puff adder out of a man hole and while checking another manhole I found hundreds if not thousands of Lady beetles all hibernating together. I have never seen this before. No camera sorry.

[Ice Cold Milk]

Update:

NOT looking for Damon annulatipes (Whip scorpions from KZN). Still looking for Damon variegatus though, which are found to the Northwest of KZN (Limpopo, etc).

Still looking for mantids, large centipedes, buthidae scorpions!
Drop me a line!
-=ICM=-

[Fooble]

Would you like these things?
I have them in around the garden like the giant shangaloloo things but the smaller red species?

[Ice Cold Milk]

I've got a communal tank of those, about 15 of them (Sodwana Bay, probably same species I am guessing). I'm keeping a few pill millipedes with them, as well. They seem to like Jacaranda. Thanks for the offer, though!

[Debbiestar88]

I stay in northcliff, we often find uroplectes triangulifer in the house,
I have a baby one at the moment.


I also have a baby centipede, only about 2cm...

Anything I could help with?
I shouldve become an entomologist :-S

[Debbiestar88]

There are plenty of widow spiders in my yard...
Ive found a mom with an egg sac... interested?