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  1. After a couple of weeks, you start seeing the mature grubs in your collecting container. Soon more than you know what to do with, probably.

    After a couple of weeks, you start seeing the mature grubs in your collecting container. Soon more than you know what to do with, probably.

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    • Album: Black Solder Flies
  2. Simple five gallon bucket version, cardboard pieces slid onto a bolt in the lid is where adult flies lay their eggs. Just add a crawl off tube into a

    Simple five gallon bucket version, cardboard pieces slid onto a bolt in the lid is where adult flies lay their eggs. Just add a crawl off tube into a

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    • Album: Black Solder Flies
  3. Inside showing the tube the mature grubs crawl up when they are ready to leave the food and pupate into adult flies. A ring of velcro (hook side) aro

    Inside showing the tube the mature grubs crawl up when they are ready to leave the food and pupate into adult flies. A ring of velcro (hook side) aro

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  4. chameleonoobie

    best easiest feeders to breed?

    In Florida, Dubias are out of contention. Go with Discoids here. Also the Black Soldier flies are pretty simple if you can start a colony and attract native flies to lay eggs, it never stops producing.
  5. Black Solder Flies

    Black Solder Flies

  6. chameleonoobie

    Photo shoot time! more pics...

    Is there some help section on here that explains how to display several pictures in that thumbnail format?
  7. chameleonoobie

    egg-crate for crickets - used for eggs ok?

    You can use these Jiffy Strips too. They are little peat pots sold for starting plants. Pretty sterile, inert peat and paper pulp or something. I use these for roaches and crickets along with egg crate.
  8. The rear end that is in focus shows the long ovidepositor that indicates this is a female cricket. That long tube sticks into the dirt to lay eggs. Ve

    The rear end that is in focus shows the long ovidepositor that indicates this is a female cricket. That long tube sticks into the dirt to lay eggs. Ve

  9. This is a macro shot of extremely small newly hatched crickets emerging from the egg laying cup.

    This is a macro shot of extremely small newly hatched crickets emerging from the egg laying cup.

  10. This is the tub for the fully loaded egg laying cups to hatch out. More damp substrate than the others so the pin heads can molt. The cup on the left

    This is the tub for the fully loaded egg laying cups to hatch out. More damp substrate than the others so the pin heads can molt. The cup on the left

  11. My general population bin, with screen hot glued to each side for ventilation.

    My general population bin, with screen hot glued to each side for ventilation.

  12. My females-only egg laying bin

    My females-only egg laying bin

  13. Simple snap top Sterilite (I think?) container with screen hot glued on both sides for ventilation.

    Simple snap top Sterilite (I think?) container with screen hot glued on both sides for ventilation.

  14. Crickets

    Crickets

    Some pictures of my cricket tubs.
  15. chameleonoobie

    Anyone have a BioPod Plus colony?

    I ordered 150 small Phoenix worms from Josh’s frogs to get my bucket started. You are supposed to use the cardboard as an egg deposit site for the adult flies. I haven’t seen any adults or evidence of eggs, but some must have laid eggs directly in the mush because my bucket seems to have a...
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