Dedicated collector! Looking great. I remember these days, a lot of work.
"Dedicated"
YES, you need some dedication for this type of keeping.. It's been forever since I've done this...lol
Fantastic and organized looking. I'm not ready for that level of commitment myself, but maybe one day.
Thanks! I've been too lazy for the past decade, and trying to get back to good looking shelves again..
Amazing! How do you combat the cannibalism? Also, where did you find those labels!?
Thanks. To combat the cannibalism, you just have to set eggs and larvae individually in a container. Single egg in a single container! Pretty obvious, right?
I bought the labels from Amazon (or you can get it from Office Depot, Staples, etc.). Try search for label papers. The product I purchased is from below:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XW7W7FG/
HOWEVER, my product quality kinda sucks.. The width of all papers are less than 8.5 inches, so I have to do a very good job aligning each page into printer feeder tray.
There is an option where you can mass print labels on MS word. Go to
Mailing tab on top, and then click for
Labels, select and set options (30 labels per page in my case), and there you go! OR you can just go ahead make your own layout with tables. Since the measurements are usually provided on the package or in item description, you just have to draw a table and adjust margins, spaces, etc.
The information I wrote on the labels are pretty simple. I know I'm not going to have enough time to check when each individual larvae becomes L2 or L3 stages, so I only wrote the
species name,
date and location of collection for its parents, and
when each eggs are gathered/collected from breeding setups (with one extra line just in case).
