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Hi Guys,
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 [...]
Hi Guys Mike here,
We have had a great week here at BugWorld we had the privilege of holding a 3 day conference called TIWG, this stands for Terrestrial Invertebrate Working Group. We are very lucky to have held this especially with in our first 6 months of opening. We discussed all matters to do with [...]
In the last week our collection has expanded like you wouldn’t believe.
We now have 140 thorny stick insect nymphs and the hissing cockroaches have also had another batch of babies – about 80 in the last couple of days. Keeping an eye on all these kids is a full time job, they get everywhere.
Elsewhere, our [...]
Hi Guys its Mike here,
This week we had our first Assassin Bugs hatch out, we were very excited to see them. Although we had not seen the adults mating we knew they were at that age and have been hoping we would see the young soon. Up to now we have four. These guys are [...]
Hi Everyone
Things have finally settled down after the hectic week leading up to halloween. Some good news is that our thorny stick insects have had babies. The female stick insects laid the eggs around July so we had to wait patiently for these to hatch. It can take up to 6 months for the eggs [...]