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Nathant

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  • Birthday 11/16/2003

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    Massachusetts
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    Ants and Beetles

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  1. Nice I keep ants as well. I've never heard of keeping paper wasps in captivity I'll have to check them out.
  2. What kind of hymenoptera? I am guessing Formicidae.
  3. The way my passion for insects started was quite plain, but I felt the way it was introduced to me was perfect. In general I am quite independant myself. I never have too many friends becuase I quite frankly just like independance. Being 12 at the time, I was starting to think for myself a lot yet my future was still very cloudy; I had no idea what I wanted to become or be interested in. However, flipping the rocks in my yard and finding all the cool insects was something I was doing since I was a toddler, but not to an extent that it was that memorable or significant. I liked to call it "in the back of my mind". One day, in the middle of summer, I had nothing to do. And I have no idea how it popped into my head as I was generally someone who never liked trying new stuff or liked change: I wanted to collect an ant colony from my yard and raise it. It was a disaster from there, as there was no queen and I thought at that time that winged ants (alates) could reproduce in the nest, which was not the case. The colony died overnight. However, this sparked my brain up like it never did before. It was so oddly satisfying to watch them dig, how they socialized, how they cared for their brood. And the best thing is, I found this amazing passion of insect keeping 100% by myself, something I'd never expect myself to do. And as of late, my knowledge has expanded from ants to other arthropods like Isopods and beetles. Arthropods are all I think about all day now, and it is my only thing I do for fun. I devote a large part of my life to it.
  4. Thank you! I love the young coloring of them.
  5. I agree with this, like everyone else, too. It is bad enough when your semi-friends at school purposely sound gross about keeping ants, but it is even worse when your parents come up with excuses for this stuff, like "Oh the substrate is too wet, a giant mold outbreak is going to get you sick" and they ban (insert insect/arthropod order here) from being in my room when in truth, they are grossed out at the fact that there are "gross, dirty bugs" in your room. And I don't even want to get started about roaches. Just becuase a miniscule fraction of them are dirty and pests, it is automatically thought that it is essential that they are forbidden in the house. Without letting me explain that they are clean and NOT pests, that is. It really is sad sometimes how the people closest to you cannot support what you love becuase of their own self-conciousness and lack of knowledge that they just can't learn to understand.
  6. Just an old Canon Powershot SX120 IS. Didn't even use an add on lens. Just a phone flashlight.
  7. How should I go about identifying the temperature inside of my beetle habitats if I cannot fit a thermometer inside of the setup? I'm planning on using a heat cable soon and I want to know the exact temperature. Is this even possible because of the heat gradient it provides?
  8. Thanks! I was amazed myself how I was able to get some nice shots on that camera.
  9. I've been keeping these guys for a while now. There are about 15-20 larvae, around 35 pupae, and my first 2 beetles eclosed today!
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