Peter - anionic polyacrylamide is sold on the market as "insect water gel", usually by reptile supply houses as a source of water for feeder crickets. Just do a search using that term and you'll find lots of companies selling it. It is very cheap and is a good solution to providing moisture to ...

Hi Ted, welcome here ! Wow i am impressed with your blog ! Beautiful pictures and a wealth of information. Are the animals in the collection found by yourself or there are some of them purchased ?
Thank you Hansje - the vast majority of my collection I have collected personally. I have done some ...

I saw that you breed tiger beetles yourself, could you give us some information about your breeding methods?
Hi Peter - rearing tiger beetles is not an exact science, since so many species have never been reared before. I mostly use rearing for larvae that I find in the field so I can determine ...

Hello, I hope it is okay to write in English.

I am Ted MacRae from the United States. I work as a research entomologist in the field of agricultural biotechnology, but as a serious avocation I study taxonomy and biosystematics of Coleoptera, especially Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, and Carabidae ...