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Larvae do not need to be in the dark to pupate. They do not need to be held in separate containers to pupate.

I fill a plastic tub half full of peat moss. Add the beetles, larvae, or whatever you have for a starter colony. Beetles need water, larvae do not. Beetles need a paper egg carton for roosting. Beetles will eat wheat bran, dog food, table scraps, or many other things. Beetles will lay eggs...

OK, put some mealworms or giant mealworms in your palm. Make a fist. How does it feel?

vigorously bi Superworms are safe, I have fed them to chameleons and geckos for 20 years. However, mealworms/sujperworms are another story. Hold some in your hand, make a fist, and they immediately bi.te your skin. Yes, I have seen mealworms ehew their way from the inside to the outside of...

Is there a geneticist on board? I have heard that genetic mutations occur once every 20,000 generations, whether we are talking about fruit flies, or whatever. That is how they can tell how long populations have been isolated- by genetic mapping to determine the number of mutations. I c an...

I wonder how frequent sibling mating occurs in the wild, given the limited dispersal of chameleons. Are there any documented instances of weakened individuals as a result of backcrossing? I mean real cases, not what someone thinks or might have hear secondhand.

True. As I have stated before, inbreeding/backcrossing can result in expression of non-dominant genes. These recessive characteristics may be either beneficial or harmful. Example: in humans, brown eyes are dominant. Somewhere, sometime, there was a mutation for blue eyes. This...

If you are really concerned, try this: normal male x bald female; then normal female X bald male. The offspring probably will appear to be normal, but will be heterozygous. Then cross these offspring, and you should get one third expressing the bald characteristic. Note that Ihave used the...

Animal and plant breeders have used back crossing as a powerful tool to produce improved lines.

Keep backcrossing. This probably is a recessive trait.

Did you back cross to get this?

I have had good luck with veilds and panthers that are purchased from our Petco chain store in Bozeman, Montana. The people there understand their reptiles and take good care of them. If they have an interesting cham I watch it for a few weeks to be sure that it is growing and acting well...

She should be OK. Just keep her hydrated now. Do you want to breed her? No, the eggs will not be fertile. She will keep laying eggs even if she has not mated. You can watch for receptive colors that will indicate when she will want company.

I assume you are talking about grasshoppers. In temperate regions, they have obligatory diapause, so there is only one generation per year. When nymphs are crowded, they develop extra large wings, a migratory phase when they are adults. The seventeen year locusts underground as nymphs and...

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Are wild caught snails likely to nave parasites that can attack frogs and lizards? I plan to try some this summer.

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I have used several for 2 years, with no problem.

If you need a bit of extra heat in your feeder colony, lizard cage, incubator, or whatever, do an ebay search for heat pad. Look for something similar to this. They are under $5 US, and come from China.

Still to early to tell. If it is a male, the tail will thicken, or enlarge near the base.