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Looking for some interesting mutant/weird/rare butterflies. Gynandromorph would be crazy awesome but I know that's probably not going to happen.

Also anything Dingo. A pelt would be awesome but I open to anything.

Comment with pics and prices please.

I posted like a week or two ago about the boar my barn owner gave me, and here's an update with an extra little somethin!

I tossed my doe head back there too, and to my surprise it's already way cleaner than the boar! So I moved the boar over closer to it, and they are cleaning up fast! They are also both FULL of wasps and fire ants.


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Polyphylla decemlineata, to be exact.

Two of these beauties just careened into my kitchen, and were thwacking around on the cabinets.  I managed to catch them both, and thanks to the internets I could look them up.  I was able to ascertain that:

1.  They are not endangered (i.e. the Mt. Hermon June Beetle is rare and protected)
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Pics of things I picked up at school, and some stuff that I've simply not shared before. The first section is from my college pickings ( Read more... )

'Tis getting to be the season, and I need cicadas!  Whole bugs, wings, heads, anything (but especially wings).

I'll gladly pay for a small flat rate Priority Mail box full, and if you want I can even make you a steampunk resin pendant with bug parts and gears in it. :-D

Between a couple 'how to preserve bugs' threads here and my finding a huge grasshopper on my porch the other day, I decided to put together a quick guide on how to pin insects. Keep in mind that I'm an amateur at this and that I've still got a lot to learn, but I thought I'd share my knowledge (and enthusiasm!) anyways.

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Hey everyone! I'm pretty new to this community and this is my first real post ( Read more... )

Hello again all! I have three freshly dead baby mice. There's a warehouse not far from me that distributes bird/plant seed, and mice are bad for business, bad for bird health, and bad for the workers. So they have poison traps. I asked about having their mice, since they would just get thrown away anyway. So they have three freshly dead baby ( Read more... )

I am having a terrible problem with my dead things! I don't know the correct methods for storage and now I am paying the price ( Read more... )