Again, more backyard goodness, ha!

was doing some gardening this weekend when I found a few opilios under some plants roots, I havent seem these for years!

for those not familiar with this order, this wiki page is nice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
Ive chosen 2 males and 3 females, hope to get them breeding

Tags: Opilio Opilione Harvestman Arachnid

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Other day when I got home from college I found a cup with two uncommon mantids in my room, my father captured them mating in the window at the lab that he works (not a insect-related lab btw, chemistry)
They are probably Phyllovates (Theoclytes) sp, and are bigger than the backyard mantids I'm used to keep, the only bad thing is that the female also flies, so its a bit hard to shot them

Anyone has guesses on the species?

Tags: Mantodea Praying Mantis Phyllovates

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I usually dont write much (maybe cause english is not my primary language) but I'm going to use this to show everydays bug finds =)

Starting with a banana cockroach (P. nivea) that appeared at my kitchen these days, almost dead but I'm happy to find it, never saw one and I didnt knew they were at my region

Tags: Cockroach Nivea Green Banana

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