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We have a few additions to mention this month. We now have domino beetles in quranatine which we are hoping to display in the desert area, once our new tank is built.
The domino beetles are native to india and they are a predatory beetle. As soon as we intorduced the males to the females they started [...]
Mike here,
This month we have seen the installation of our new marine tank, we are displaying lots of different invertebrate species from the Albert Dock and the surrounding local coast lines.Its became my favourite job to feed all the sea anemones as when I put my hand and arms in to reach the anemones [...]
Hi Guys,
Its Mike here, sorry it has been a while since our last update we have not had a minute to our selves over Easter.
If you came to visit us then we hoped you enjoyed our egg hunt.
Back to our keeper news, we have had a baby boom with over 90 leaf insects hatching and [...]
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I hope everyone has had a fun week we certainly have at the bugworld experience
We have had 3 leaf insects hacth this week. These are black when they hatch our but turn green after a few days. We have had to incubate the eggs for 5-6 months.
Also this week we fed our leeches with cows [...]
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Mike here, ..
We had a really busy week on half term and we hoped you enjoyed our craft sessions and love bug quiz.
The winner was chosen at random and I am sure they will enjoy their bag of goodies.
This week saw us receiving a new Salmon Pink Tarantula from a member of the public; she [...]
Another busy couple of weeks here at Bugworld. I thought i would share these pictures of our partula snails mating. Our partula snails are really rare, so to see them mating is fantastic!
The picture below shows two adult Partula rosea mating.
Once they have fertilised each other you can expect them to give birth to a [...]
Hi Guys Mike here,
I hope you all heard me on the radio, I was on Juice fm last Thursday talking about our Yellow tailed Scorpion Hope who we had to send to the vets to be anesthetised as she was covered in mites which could have been fatal. She is doing great now and should [...]
We have had a fun week here at Bugworld.
Two of our lined mantis were put in together to see if the female liked the male.
It took two days for anything to happen and unfortunately when we came in the next day the male was mating with the female but she had eaten his head. We [...]
Hi Guys Mike here,
Happy new year to you all. We all hope you had a great time over the festive season.
All our young stick insects are growing well and eating us out of house and home. They will soon be out to meet you all.
We also sourced a new male Lined mantis to mate with [...]
Merry Christmas Everyone,
I can’t believe its almost Christmas, this year has flown by so fast.
We have some new addtions to the BugWorld family. These include 2 pairs of adult black widows, 9 juvenile black widows, and 2 fishing spiders.
Our female black widow that is on display will hopefully be paired up with a male next [...]