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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Hi Guys,
It’s Mike here,
Well what a busy week we have had here this week. Lots of you had dressed up in fancy dress and we seen some fantastic costumes. Well done! For you who took part in our creepy crawly crafts we hope you enjoyed it, we never expected it be so popular.
Also this week [...]
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Quite a few things to tell you about this week.
We now have 47 rosy wolf snail babies out of the 49 eggs that were laid, which is fantastic news. Hopefully the other two rosy wolf snail eggs should hatch in a couple of days.
Also our partula snails are settling in well and I have [...]
Hi Guys Its Mike here,
Really exciting news this week our Partula snails arrived, the species we have are extinct in the wild and where only found on one island called Huahine. We are one of two collections in the UK where you can see these beautiful snails on display.
We now all three species of snail [...]
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An exciting update with the Rhino beetles, 2 stunning females have now emerged from there cocoons. Hopefully we should get a male from one of the remaining 3 cocoons and then we can breed the little beauties.
George our resident Longhorn Beetle appeared in the Daily Post and the Echo in his own personal lonely [...]
Hi Guys its Mike here,
Another exciting week at BugWorld, we received 2 more spiders. One from my old colleagues at Knowsley safari park they had found a spider in bananas which they feed to the elephants.
They wanted us to identify it. The bananas came from Cameroon and the spider turned out to be a Huntsman, [...]
Hi Everyone Jeff here.
We have had another fun filled week at Bugworld.
Our Orchid Mantis that is on show has finally had her final moult so now she is an adult. Its brilliant because now she has the ability to fly. This is often the case for alot of species of mantids.
There is also good news [...]