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You might consider a veild Mine are more hardy than my panthers. Cheaper, too.

Is he watching you watching him? He might be bashful.

His eyes look like he might be a little dehydrated. Can you put a plastic cup with pin holes filled with water on top of the cage? The dripping water should fall onto the plants. Catch the water in a tray under the cage. My relative humidity here in Montana is low, yours probably is also...

l raise them in damp peat moss. They go nuts over canned cat food. Large superworms do well on chicken feed, nonmedictged of course.

I feed night crawlers to my bearded dragons, and have had no problems with them. What parasites are you concerned about?

Oops, I was thinking about hookworms.

Beetles have complete metamorphosis. During the pupal stage, larval tissues break down and give rise to adult tissues. The new tissues are formed around imaginal bodies that were present in the larvae. In contrast, crickets have incomplete metamorphosis, that is, the nymphs resemble the...

I suspect that various bacteria and fungi that are pathogenic to chameleons can be picked up from diseased insects. These diseases may occur in both wild and captive insects. I cant prove it, but I think one of m y chams developed mouth rot after feeding on crickets purchased from a...

There may be obligatory insect/chameleon hosts of parasites in the tropics. There are none in temperate zones that I am aware of.

Can you give more information? Where do you think she contacted pinworms? In humans, you can be infested by waking barefoot in water that has feces from another infected person. Was she captive bred? Where did she come from? Was she exposed to other chams Sorry, I cant help with treatment or...

Household use of termite, ant, fly, and roach chemicals should be of concern.

The blue spots are the key indicator.

All spiders feed by injecting enzymes into their prey. Then they swallow the resulting fluid. I have fed large orb weaving spiders to quads, and had no problems. I know of no instances oif spiders carrying parasites that have reptiles as intermediate hosts. Its highly unlikely that your spider...

Great photos. Thanks for sharing

Neem oil is an extract from the neem tree. These trees occur in India and other countries. The extract has insecticidal characteristics, likely evolved for the plant to protect itself. Although it is natural, it is toxic. Effects on reptiles probably have not been determined. Potting plant...

Looks like a female,....so far. Nice photos.

Inbreeding increases the chances for expression of recessive genes that might be undesirable. On the other hand, these characteristics may lead to something new and unique.

This is a wasp. Flies, or Diptera, have one pair of wings. Wasps and bees, Hymenoptera, have to pairs of wings. The front and back wings are connected together with tiny hooks. Your wasp has a stinger, probably it parasitizes caterpillars or some similar insect. The stinger can be an...

Bearded dragons are pretty tough, and bite or chew their prey, so they are less likely to swallow a live wireworm. Gecko's and chameleon's mouths are much softer and may be more susceptible to damage. In one case, a mealworm chewed its way out of the dead gecko's stomach. I should have taken a...