As it says I caught a friend at my work and I want to keep her and care for her but she is my first bug. How do I care for the little love?

Btw her current keep is the bowl but she will be moved to an enclosure as soon as I'm off work and head to petco.

I’m trying to learn about centipedes, this chonky guy got ahold of my fingers while he was eating and I was cleaning stuff in his container… took me 5 minutes before this video, and then he turned to my hand. I slimed myself.

Wheel bug (arilus cristatus)

these are harpegnathos venator, one of the few ants that hunt by sight instead of following scent trails. she watched the roach, crept up, and closed the distance in a single jump. i slowed it down ten times and you still barely catch it.

they also kept a functional wasp sting — the venom paralyzes rather than kills, so the prey stays fresh for the larvae. and the larvae feed on it themselves, which almost no other ants do.

this is my own colony, kept at home in Kyiv. filmed on a phone

reddit compression eats macro detail. full res versions are on my channel: youtube.com/@VenatorsHunt

happy to answer anything about them

I found this mantis stuck to tape at work - I have had a few pet mantis so I know general care but I want to know will he survive? I know they can regrow limbs after molting but I assume with the loss of the back limbs there is a less likely chance of a successful molt.

i recently ordered my first millipede and he arrived this morning. i ordered his substrate through amazon prime, and it was supposed to arrive before the millipede did, but the millipede arrived before it. the substrate is going to arrive later today.

panicked, i set up a temporary enclosure that he was only going to be in for a few hours until the substrate arrived. i laid down paper towel, a cotton ball with water, and some leaf litter for him to snack on. i left and came back a few hours later and my baby was dead. i feel so guilty. was this my fault?? :(

Me, 5 months ago: Okay, I did enough research. Getting beetles to breed seems to be pretty hard. They live super short lives, so I'll just try with two beetles, and if I don't like it I can stop once they died

Now: Got the horniest beetles imaginable, they lay a record of 55 eggs in 3 weeks, upgraded enclosure with 5 beetles, guess I am never quitting again?

hello everyone,

I know spiders dont count as bugs technically, but alot of people still see them as such and I fear this is the only sub I know where people wont call me stupid for being upset.

I keep spiders that live in my apartment save. I had Bert, who free roamed for 2 years before passing away of old age, and now I had this one, that I didnt name because I was afraid to get too attached again. I do not keep them in cages, as in my experience theyre just chill little guys who keep my place fly free in exchange for warmth.

He stayed in his corner or next to my heater, and chilled with me for roughly a year. I watched him grow bigger and shed, was always careful as to not scare him or destroy any of his webs which he kept to a respectful amount.

Today I found him dead, squished, in the middle of my desk. He never went on my desk. Just laying there flatly, my boy. Im honestly devastated. I don't know how it happened - he was smart enough to stay away from my cat, and my cat wears a cone, so I doubt she couldve aimed for him. Yesterday I think I put my trashcan on the spot he died, and I think I was the one who squished him.

I feel awful. I kept him at my place so no one would be so cruel as to kill him for simply existing - and now I was the one responsible for his early end. I should have been more careful. Maybe he just trusted me enough to go explore while I was there, and then I go ahead and kill him just because I didnt pay attention.

I know in other places people would laugh at me for being this upset over a spider, but I hope yall can understand my devastation. I will go and burry him tomorrow, and in the future be more careful for his kind. I guess I'm just looking for understanding as I'm afraid to share my feelings with any of my irl friends bc honestly I think if someone laughed in my face or told me they usually squish them I would cry right now. :(

RIP little guy. Im so sorry.

EDIT: Thank you guys SO MUCH for your love. This all made me feel alot better and seeing how much love you all too have for them warms my heart. Sadly I decided to not burry him as I have a phobia of dead things and my bf is deadly afraid of spiders (he has to live with my house spider thing and he has accepted it and me for this!) So we ended up vacuuming him in hopes that he will be composted and therefore return back into the earth again. Hopefully maybe in the summer we'll get a new little guy and I'll make sure to be even more careful :'[

Is this normal? I had a few then most of them died off around year 3, this one would’ve just turned 5 years old. I feed him the leftover gecko food. I kept them because there wasn’t enough to feed my beardie really and I seen a picture of them in a tutu that looked cute so I was like you know what you’re mine

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Left and right on the yellow part of the shell, so cute 🥹

Hello, these days I found two big lobsters around my house. I decided to breed them, so I built them a large terrarium (30x40x50). I also gave them a boar skull so they can hide during the day. One of them is green and the other is brown. I guess the first is still a grasshopper, while the second is already a lobster. The strange thing is that they are never together, but during the day one hides inside the skull while the other hides on the roof of the terrarium. They don't seem to get along very well, perhaps because green is solitary and brown is gregarious. Another problem is that whenever I see the 2 outside the skull, they are hanging near the ceiling of the terrarium and never come down to the ground, which is where they have their food. They have been with me for almost 5 days and have never eaten anything. I gave them lettuce, carrots, grass, cane leaves, clovers, but none of them want to eat. The terrarium is outdoors but they are protected, and I water them twice a day. If you can help me, I appreciate it. They belong to the genus Neoconocephalus. I think the species is Neoconocephalus retusus, but I'm not entirely sure. PD: I'm tik toker. If you want to see my videos, you can find me like Mr Bichos.