Microtomus purcis

[pannaking22]

Good luck! I caught a couple of those last year and I had a lot of fun with them

It was nice to keep a large reduviid that wasn't a wheel bug

 

[Lucanus]

Good luck! I caught a couple of those last year and I had a lot of fun with them

It was nice to keep a large reduviid that wasn't a wheel bug

Thank you

It's really fun to watch them dash to their preys, isn't it?

 

[Lucanus]

One egg managed to hatch

 

[LarvaHunter]

Nice baby assassin, I'm glad you got an offspring from the wild caught ones. Good job!

 

[Lucanus]

Nice baby assassin, I'm glad you got an offspring from the wild caught ones. Good job!

Thank you

Seems that I'll be able to establish a captive bred culture of this species soon cause all my adults are doing great and I saw 2 more nymphs hatching out from egg capsules

 

[manticora]

awesome job

they are a beautiful assasin

 

[Lucanus]

awesome job

they are a beautiful assasin

Thank you

Found a 4th newly hatched nymph today.

 

[Lucanus]

2 of the 4 nymphs are gone. I'm down to 2 now. Those 2 seem to love B. germanica nymphs I provided so I'm hoping they'll make it to 2nd instal

 

[Lucanus]

5 nymphs have hatched so far, but 2 went missing

Remaining 3 have been doing great so far.

 

[Lucanus]

One of 5 medium sized nymphs I have right now.

 

[Lucanus]

One of my medium sized nymphs became a subadult today

 

[Lucanus]

PS. These guys produce weird odor that doesn't smell too bad (at least to me) when disturbed.

 

[Greatwun]

Nice photos. What kind of trees do you find these in? I find most of them under loose pine bark.

 

[Lucanus]

Nice photos. What kind of trees do you find these in? I find most of them under loose pine bark.

Thank you

I've collected mine under loose barks of live oak, white oak (I think), hickory, and pines

Seems that they prefer large still standing trees with hard, smooth barks in dry condition.

 

[Lucanus]

Another "newly hatched" nymph was found in the enclosure. Will post pics soon

 

[LarvaHunter]

Can't wait to see the pics. Nice work breeding.

 

[Lucanus]

Can't wait to see the pics. Nice work breeding.

Thank you

I'll work on taking pics today so I can post it on here

 

[Lucanus]

Got a pic of the nymph. It was 12 AM so I was very tired, thus I couldn't take many pics

 

[Amici Con Coleotteri]

Congratulations with all your success thus far. I have 2 P. rhadamanthus that I'd like to breed, but down the road I definitely want more natives.

 

[Lucanus]

Congratulations with all your success thus far. I have 2 P. rhadamanthus that I'd like to breed, but down the road I definitely want more natives.

Thank you

I've heard that Platymeris can breed through parthenogenesis so hopefully you'll be able to breed them

I've seen an ad on arachnoboards selling various assassins from FL. Perhaps you can contact that person to get more natives?