ok. congrats ryo on V6 and i hope u are enjoying the longi splings.

selamat hari raya everyone. i'm facing difficulty to be online since i am moving a lot.

ok trip series.

while i am in pekan at my mothers in law house i had to clean the outdoor store room. and i found this fellas.

this one is laying an egg sac


id was given to me by leetplayer as harlequin roach.(Neostylopyga rhombifolia). some info of the roach from Allpet Roaches:

The Harlequin roach is certainly among the neatest looking of the pet roaches and is a very quick moving medium sized species. Nymphs start out life as a plain tan color but slowly molt to become very incredible looking adults. Harlequin roaches easily scale smooth surfaces and like most other glass climbers can be controlled by petroleum jelly. Also, this roach is an egg laying species.

sorry ryo for the roach story. tried to find scorps but only find roaches and pedes but i think it is in line with my trip series posting. lol.

throw ur substrate. i always had phorid fly problems
and that is what i usually do.

this is a continuation of my trip in kl. sort of.

first and foremost i would like to wish a very happy birthday to hyorinmaru. hope u can get more interesting scorpions in the future and not be stung by them.
this is a continuation of my ikano trip while i was in kl
these events all happen from the 20th of september to the 29th of september 2009.

after my ikano trip i was busy with raya preparations and stuff.
i went back to celebrate raya in pekan and was helping cleaning the store room when i came upon these beauties.


and 1 of them was producing an egg case.



id was given to me by leetplayer as harlequin roach.(Neostylopyga rhombifolia). some info of the roach from Allpet Roaches:

The Harlequin roach is certainly among the neatest looking of the pet roaches and is a very quick moving medium sized species. Nymphs start out life as a plain tan color but slowly molt to become very incredible looking adults. Harlequin roaches easily scale smooth surfaces and like most other glass climbers can be controlled by petroleum jelly. Also, this roach is an egg laying species.

i also found a few centipedes which i think were cherry heads but were unable to catch any due to lacking of equipments.

on the 26th of september i traveled to (secret location) for some r&r with the wife. i have to say it is really a nice place to be.
some fact that arent told in any travel brouchers.

tempreature is around 18-21 degrees. so it is cold. any herping attempt at night should be done with cold weather cloths. and that is not accoutning for windy conditions or rain at night.

there are many hiking trails. some are 500 meters long and easy to cover and some are 5000 meters long and is dangerous.
for night time herping i would recommend the (secret trail) not far from the (secret location). it is 500 meters long and is dense pack with trees. here is a picture of the trail from my hotel room:


the trail runs from the left to the right and it is much longer. i just couldnt fit the trail in my camare lens.

most of the trees in (secret location) have barks like this:
and are always covered in moss.

vegetation is really thick in (secret location). no signs of human activities anywhere. not many tourist also.

shops close early here. u have to get your dinner by 9 if not u will be starving.
hotel rates are acceptable.

on my way down from (secret location) through "The Gap" i found this fellow.

seems it was run over by a car but it was still alive. the local call it "Banik". all i can tell it is a local land tortoise sp.

when i woke up the next morning in my house i was surprise to see this fellow greeted me:


an adult blue bronzeback. docile fellow. even let me handle him.

that evening i went to Giant Shah Alam for some last minute shopping and i found a small stall selling scorpions. they were H.Spinifers and were selling at RM35 each. Unfortunately the guy who was manning the stall had no idea on how to sex or keep the scorpions properly.


both were females and 1 of them i suspect is gravid. both had their acoulus cut off. very pity sight of the scorpions. here is the picture of the enclosure:



i'm worried about the trade of these scorpions. not that they are lethal or anything like that but the misinformation that shopkeepers give is what i'm afraid of.

i also gotten my self a book not about scorpions but about entomology.

i notice this book at a second hand book store. nice book. does explains how and what is use to classify insects and arachnids in their orders.

other then this book i also got myself 4 types of forceps. make my job easier.

thats is all from me
i'm back in sarawak already at the time of posting and is getting ready to go on another trip in the forest around my area. another report will follow after the trip is done.

This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 2 2009, 10:08 AM

thank you for your comments.

This post has been edited by akagidemon: Oct 2 2009, 04:07 PM

rideon "the proud father of many-many spinifer broods".

congrats.

yes kar i think it can be use. just get some and sift them through a coarse sift to get the contaminents out then microwave them to kill off any microbes that may be lurking inside there and u are set to go.

i like ur thinking. i'm on the same brainwave as u are. the thing is stuf are harder to come by here in sibu then in kl. so most of the items i use have to be

a)improvise
b)diy
c)breed myself.

cost are going up but there are ways of reducing the impact of the price hike via sensible and creative thinking.

that telson look familiar,hmmmmmm.

well my take on the introduction of the sp in areas that are not known to have that sp is just release them there coz the sp is a native sp in the malay peninsular,and singapore. it just maybe because of development and their natural habitat criteria that are not meet thus causing them to be wipe out from a certain area.

releasing 20 of them in an area of about 1km square is the most ideal option. u are not releasing too many until it disturb the eco-balance yet no too little until it is not viable for them to reproduce.

but that is my 2 cents la.

on other news:

hello guys. i have sumthing to report and ask at the same time.

i found "things" on this crickets. and when i say things it is because i cant identify them. i tried taking a look of this nodes on the crickets heads under a magnifying glass but i cant really see anything that suggest these are mites or a living thing
complete lacking of any visual legs or mouth pieces.

can anybody tell me what they are and if they are mites i am just wondering are their parasitic or carrion mites?

caution! if ur just had food dont click or if ur the gross type dont click also.

it is a fresh killed cricket. killed by a T. my scorps are on a super mealworms diet only.

hmmmm
what type of mites are they? parasitic or carrion?
please let it be carrion mites.

2 months in parcel. really power la this scorps.

nice pillar tail there lester.

i put warning already.

update in the pic of mites i posted yesterday.

they are called crickets mites and infest young crickets. apparently they drop off the adults for some reason or another.

they are parasitic. thankfully they only attack crickets.

on another note, i found a colony of Liocheles Australasiae. got dome really good fat adults and some really cute juviniles running around the tree.

a word of advice.

dont put your hopes to high.

the experience of taking care a 1i scorpling is really sumthing that i dont want to repeat. really heart wrenching when u see 1 by 1 the babies die of.

i guess i was lucky that 1 survived.

anyway, all the best to you Kar. i hope u succeed on this awesome experiment and experience that u are about to go through.

big bottle is a big bottle.

acid pills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice bottle.

congrats to tenso on having being stung by the longi.

please update on how it feels.

something to spice things up. its getting really slow in here. So here is another 1 of my "walk-walk find inverts" series.

what prompt me to gp herping today was an information that there is a cummunal nest of adults and juviniles h.longimanus which to me is too good to be true. H.longimanus are known as cummunal species in captive conditions but to find them communal in the wild is very rare.



very deep and dark hole but too small for my camera to go in much further

so of i go to the said location and after much poking and trying to get what ever it was inside to come out i finally stopped when 2 things were apparent to me.

1st the hole was very deep and none of my instruments can reach till the bottom. since it was a man made structure i cant make the whole bigger without damaging the building the hole was situated.

2nd i didnt have any imaging devices such as a flexiscope to have a good view inside the hole.

in the end i abandone the hole and met with a caretaker of the area. she said that in numerous occasions especially after rain she would see scorpions in various locations. i would follow up on this claims ASAP for the scorpions are not only in close proximity to human but areliving along side humans which is really great.

having with me alot of gear i decided to do a simple survey of the LA colonies. since the LA colonies are situated mostly on coconut trees, i decided to make my cencus smaller an limit myself to coconuts trees that are not taller then me since i lack the proper climbing skills and tools.

the first tree that i came upon which was in a different sector didnt have any LA in them but contains alot of ants and this little guy:







all i know it is a type of jumping spider

moving on to other trees in the area yielded the same result: no LA. this was surprising to me for this sector im exploring is a disturbed the least in all of the sectors. moving on to the intermediate sector it yielded the same results. no LA colonies.

1 similarities that i can find between the 2 sectors that dont contain any LA is that they are very exposed to the sun. the enviroment is very dry. i think that would be a valid reason why there are no LA colonies in the 2 sectors.

before that i would like to inform that this is an area of about roughly 5 acres wide. so it is big and herping at 4 in the afternoon was hellishly hot.

moving to my next sector i did find a single LA on my first tree in that sector.



fairly large adult. seems to be in good health. further poking around confirmed that this tree has a colony in it. a few more adults and juviniles were observed scampering and hiding.

something caught my eye and it was a large spider.




any id would be nice since i am really dont know anythign about spiders. this to me seems to be another type of jumping spider

this is the tree that i found the first colony.


note the damp patch on the tree trunk just below the frawns. that is where the LA are living

moving to other trees in this sector and all of them have a colony of LA in them. here are a few more pictures:


i notice this little fellow was munching on an ant


another juvinile

and that is all for today. i will update as soon as i have onformation on the longimanus nest. hopefully it is true and not a snake nest.

comments and critics are welcome. thank you.

i think it is. coz they are really small this jumping spiders.

people. picture please.

a picture is a thousands words in colors.

off topic pic.lol



looks like my breeding project turn out well. see the food.imagine how many crickets are in there. this is a tub that can hold 8 adult afs in a communal setup nicely.

i'm gonna doa week to week review on the conditions of the colonies that i find. i also am going to make a map of the locations and some pictures of the surrounding and try to find out why are they more concentrated on the more busy areas as oppose to the quieter areas and also to find out what they actually eat in the wild.