Elytra and Antenna

09/12/2023

A very easy Anadenobolus

07/11/2023

https://www.amazon.com/Isopods-Captivity-Orin-McMonigle/dp/0980240190
Update to the 2013 handbook

This is the first and only text devoted entirely to isopods and their husbandry. Also known as pillbugs, armadillo bugs, woodlice, and potato bugs, these handsome crustaceans have worked their way into the hearts of terrarium keepers for excellent cleaning abilities, feeder use, and the growing a...

07/09/2023

This issue the flagship article discusses line breeding Asian forest scorpions for hypomelanism. Ray Dryer finishes up a two-part treatise on trident beetles including the appearance and breeding for unique color forms. My article discusses the biggest and heaviest clam on earth including some husbandry anecdotes. A visit to an inverebrate managerie at a local zoo and review of Freshwater Crabs of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore round out the issue.
www.elytraandantenna.com

20/08/2023

Latest invertebrates Magazine shipping soon.

17/07/2023

Books and invert talk August 26th

12/05/2023

Soon.

Discover Milliped Zoology: Husbandry and Diversity of the Class Diplopoda by Orin A. McMonigle and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. Shop paperbacks, eBooks, and more!

07/05/2023

https://www.amazon.com/Milliped-Zoology-Husbandry-Diversity-Diplopoda/dp/1616465506

Coming soon

Milliped Zoology: Husbandry and Diversity of the Class Diplopoda

30/04/2023

This issue we look at care requirements and background for the brilliant yellow, red, and black Peruvian fire stick by Larsen. After sixteen years, Dyer returns us to the massive green and orange trident beetles from Uganda and Tanzania as well as red and blue forms produced in the interim. For the parasitiformes fanatics we review current knowledge and anecdotes from two amazing arachnid families with a specialized, mobile habitat. Members of these families are some of the larger species in the Mesostigmata. Lastly, we return to the Allpet Roaches' Roach with the magnificent emerald cockroach from Vietnam and Southern China.

07/01/2023

December issue shipping today. Invertebrates Magazine December 2022: Violet Ridged Milliped, Rainy Season in Orlando, Palearctic flower beetles, Tafalisca eleuthera bush cricket, and arthropod teratology Part IV.

30/08/2022

Invertebrates-Magazine August 2022 -shipping soon

14/05/2022

April 2022 Invertebrates-Magazine shipped to current members last month.

27/03/2022

Green spot cubaris babies.

01/01/2022

December 2021: Hyllus jumping spiders, Solifuge mating in South Africa, insect safari Orlando, Malaysian crescent katydid, the large green phasmid Diapherodes gigantea and arthropod teratology update. Hardcopy has been received by all current journal members.

16/09/2021

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/orthopteran-zoology-orin-mcmonigle/1140167165

Discover Orthopteran Zoology: How to Keep Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids by Orin McMonigle and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. Shop paperbacks, eBooks, and more!

04/09/2021

August 2021 Invertebrates-Magazine Tibor Ludányi ends UAE insects with Part 2, detailing experiences with a pair of United Arab Emirates invertebrates brought to Hungary. Tom Larsen, a prolific Danish invertebrate author, brings us a comprehensive article on the incredibly colorful African Zoncerus grasshoppers commonly kept in Europe. Ondrej Hes discusses another common orthopteran in the European hobby, the Ethiopian cricket from Kenya as kept in the Czech Republic. Ray Dryer presents proof Heteropteryx is one of the few phasmids incapable of parthenogenesis, by testing common United Kingdom stock of a species brought from Malaysia in the 1980s. McMonigle details a doomed but rewarding insect safari in middle America where the greatest find is a European tortoise beetle.

28/08/2021

Original and only small handbook from 2013 updated for the new isopod hobby. 2nd edition.

21/07/2021

Pterophylla camellifolia

21/07/2021

Interesting Commercial beetle supplies in Japan you've probably never heard of even if you've been keeping Coleoptera for years and are familiar with common supplies. Climbing sticks, orange gel, special water and more. Skip to 5:50 on the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYPflZf3LQw&t=432s

I made two boxes one for my sister and one for my dad and I sent them out to Ohio. I hope they enjoy the omiage, sweets, beetle stuff, and Japanese SnacksChe...

24/04/2021

INVERTEBRATES-MAGAZINE April 2021: Insect, arachnid, and crustacean teratology conjoined segments, samurai helmet beetle, fluorescent striped spirobolids, and U.A.E. insects.

https://www.angelfire.com/oh3/elytraandantenna/images/IMCoverApril21.JPG

22/12/2020

Editor’s Notes
This issue we begin with a relative freshman to Pachnoda culture introduced to us by Hes of Sklipkan arthropod magazine fame (sklipkan means spider, or more specifically tarantula, in the Czech Republic). Next, we look at culturing a pretty, little, Nearctic tortoise beetle, 2020’s imports of camel-spiders out of Egypt, and a contender for the largest of the terrestrial isopods, Titan A. E. (After Entomology as crustaceans have taken over the bug hobby). We review three decades of experiences keeping the heaviest non-colonial invertebrates on earth, giant clams (the beautiful Tridacna and Hippopus) and finish up by solving the identification of Poe's gold-bug.
While Covid19 has been a little rough on our hobby, mostly due to constant shipping delays and vendors selling out or shutting down, many hobbyists probably have more time to spend taking care of their pets. Hopefully, invertebrates have brought some peace and enjoyment to you during this time.
I received one of my best Christmas gifts ever a few weeks ago. My daughter Kree (in her second year as an English teacher in Japan) visited a few 100 yen-shops (dollar stores) and was able to locate a couple of leftover items (see Japanese beetle rearing materials from previous issues) even though beetle supplies were almost entirely sold out for the season. They only took a month or so by boat. I'm excited to try out the mat, food pellets, and maybe even the powdered charcoal.
I hope everyone is doing well and you and your families enjoy the season where we celebrate the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords coming to earth two thousand years ago.

30/08/2020

August 2020 Issue - Twisted clowns, Japanese Beetle Supplies, horseheaded grasshopper breeding, biceratops beetle L3 description and culture history, and keeping the world's largest grasshopper.

26/07/2020

26/07/2020