Depends which species you have with air plants as some species are a lot more forgiving than others.
I think it is a western chicken turtle; they are one of the types in our parish (sometimes called a snake neck, I think??) They are in Louisiana, so they eat crawfish like the rest of us Cajuns, lol! I had to look at the list that our state wildlife and fisheries puts out to see if I could identify it. It's not a red eared slider, which is what I usually get in the yard, and not one of the map turtles or painted turtles, and it didn't smell like a musk turtle, lol!!!!
Yay native bees!
Hopefully I learned from last year and this time I can maybe start a colony for Alex treats.
In this house it would be out of the frying pan and into the fire, AKA Alex's mouth lol She loves grasshoppers / locusts and I forget what those ones are called
They are pretty and I usually let the bigger ones be so they can make little ones that are easier to eat. The big ones tend to stick their wings and legs out and make it harder to chew too.
I’m curious - do grasshoppers have an unpleasant odour like crickets do?View attachment 921179
Grasshoppers and a couple katydids. A few have shed in the tank so far which is promising. They're eating, like to hangout by the light. Hopping (Siri auto change, but I'm allowing it lol) to get them to breed in a ten gallon planted with grass to have a colony for Alex treats.
Been adding to the prepared tank for a couple weeks now. Learning to just let the small ones go since they can squeeze through the lid. For now it's fine for breeders, but babies will need a different setup which is where the double decker tanko will be useful
I’ll be interested to learn if the grasshoppers stink as much as crickets do.
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Thank you! I always forget to think of the Google lens thing.
The beetle might be a dermestid as its markings aren’t consistent with the American burying beetle, though they are similar.
I was just reading a good slug repellent is sharp landscape like pine bark mulch gravel crushed eggshells and coarse sand as they can’t really climb over it.. spread that around the base of your plants. Also supposedly there is some type of copper tape that will repel them. I’ve tried none of these methods so take this advice with a grain of salt which is supposed to be effective in drying them out but not a very humane method.
What species would this be, if you know? I knew that most bees are solitary, unlike the honey & bumblebees, but I rarely see any bees of any kind, living where I do,
Not sure, I'm really bad on my native bees. All the bigger fluffy ones I call bumblebees, the rest honey bee or bee. I know half are some form of carpenter bee though lol
