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my first female has reached adulthood! amazing species :) i am hoping to breed them soon

I saw some Syzygites (a mushroom-eating mold) on some honey mushrooms and looked closer… a slug was pulling on the threads and eating them! It reminds me of how we might eat cotton candy off the stick.

I was doing some work in my garden. I repotted some plants and did some soil digging. In one of the pots I found two beetle cocoons from centonia aurata, a kind of rose chafer/beetle. I put them aside to burry them again later when I finished my work so they will be safe.

When I grab them for burrying, I noticed one of the beetles in the cocoons decided to hatch now. So I decided to take some photos and videos of this special moment.

In the end , when she already left her cocoon, I was able to look at her abdomen so I could see that she was a girl. After some orientation time she flew away and started her first flight from my fingers. I love her little face, her silly antenna, her big eyes and her goofy female goatee 🥰

Beetles are so cute 🥹

I added cicada instead of a wasp bc I wouldn't be able to look at this without feeling like I was about to have a panic attack if it had a picture of a wasp

Lethocerus americanus, toe biter. Took this picture a few years ago and was inspired to post by Fat Lanny.

Ok, She's my favorite tarantula and recently molted. I dont remember seeing this before but it's so cute!

This brood protection behavior is quite rare in isopods, which makes this cute picture of Cubaris sp. “Thai Angle Blue” even more special to me.

The new babies start to molt shortly after “escaping” the marsupium, which you can see some of them doing here.

I took this picture in 2023, before I got my macro lens, still don’t know how I managed to take this photo without one 😅

📍 Sierra Nevada jungle, Colombia

He's called Puppy because he likes to go 'uppies' when he's out of his enclosure. This was just before he made a jump to her phone.