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Rick's Bug Room UK Breeder and supplier of praying mantids and other invertebrates.
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Good morning Glasgow!!! I'm here at the Scotstoun leisure centre for the Scottish invert show woo 🐛🦗🪳🪲🐝🦋Invert Shows UK
31/08/2025

Good morning Glasgow!!!

I'm here at the Scotstoun leisure centre for the Scottish invert show woo 🐛🦗🪳🪲🐝🦋

Invert Shows UK

So who's coming to the Scottish invert show this Sunday?I'll be manning the table on my own but the lovely Cathy Shaw of...
26/08/2025

So who's coming to the Scottish invert show this Sunday?

I'll be manning the table on my own but the lovely Cathy Shaw of Devon Springtails will have her table next to me so we'll be looking out for each other 👀

I'll be making the most of the 7/8 hour drive by doing a little natural sightseeing whilst I'm there plus a night of wild camping in the hills after the show. Don't be surprised if I'm keen to sneak off promptly when the day is over 😄

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Scottish Invertebrate Show - 31st August 2025
Location: Scotstoun Leisure Centre, G14 9HD

Invert Shows UK

I'm hoping for fourth time lucky with this genus 🤞🏻 I've tried Theopropus elegans (banded flower), T. rubrobrunneus (pin...
25/08/2025

I'm hoping for fourth time lucky with this genus 🤞🏻

I've tried Theopropus elegans (banded flower), T. rubrobrunneus (pink banded) and T. borneensis (Asian flower) but my males have always matured too early and expired prematurely 😅

This is Theopropus borneensis again and thankfully I've been thrown a lifeline by Rob Buggery Byatt (who also brought this species into culture) with an adult female to pair with my males. They're in together now with a tonne of flies and if I'm successful I'll get a mating photo to show you the crazy sexual dimorphism 🌿

Working hard here to get jokers back on the list. As we say, another box ticked ✔️Prohierodula picta - Joker mantis
23/08/2025

Working hard here to get jokers back on the list. As we say, another box ticked ✔️

Prohierodula picta - Joker mantis

All my previous mated Macromantis have laid giant ooths but no more than three. This is hatch four from my most recent ...
22/08/2025

All my previous mated Macromantis have laid giant ooths but no more than three. This is hatch four from my most recent female and still a good number too ✨

I've added pics of the adult plus some older nymphs doing that funky leaf thing 🌿

Older sexed nymphs and pairs are on the list now

Macromantis hyalina (Amazonian leaf mantis)

Good morning Essex!! I've not traveled far for this one, my local event 🦋I'm here with Megan Webb, Carnivorous plant gir...
17/08/2025

Good morning Essex!!

I've not traveled far for this one, my local event 🦋

I'm here with Megan Webb, Carnivorous plant girl, with an awesome display. Hopefully see some of you soon 🦗🐛🐜🐞🦋🪲🦗🌿

There are always so many distractions when I'm trying to prepare for a show 😅Today it's the first hatchling Typophyllum ...
15/08/2025

There are always so many distractions when I'm trying to prepare for a show 😅

Today it's the first hatchling Typophyllum trapeziforme katydid. They'd honestly be so easy to throw out with the old leaves if it wasn't for those ridiculously long antennae 🦗

The other pictures show Mum and her amazing dead leaf camouflage 🍂

Cryptics are back!! I came home today to this really nice hatch of forty which might just be ready for Glasgow and faili...
14/08/2025

Cryptics are back!!

I came home today to this really nice hatch of forty which might just be ready for Glasgow and failing that Peterborough 🦋

Only two days to go before we'll be at The Essex Arachnid & Invert Show and the trader list looks impressive. We'll have around fifty species of mantids, phasmids, katydids and more across three tables as well as fruit flies, casters and some planted acrylic enclosures 😱🎉

I'll also be joined by 'carnivorous plant girl' Megan Webb who'll have a few of her plants on the table, perfect for mopping up those escaped flies 🪰🌿

See you there if you can make it 🪲🪳🦗🕷️🐜🐝🐛

Zoe Pentz and I had enjoyable day today at the Norbreck castle hotel in Blackpool for the IHS breeders meeting. It's al...
10/08/2025

Zoe Pentz and I had enjoyable day today at the Norbreck castle hotel in Blackpool for the IHS breeders meeting.

It's always nice meeting the reptile crowd 🪲🦗🐛🦋🕷️🪳🐍

The new queen of darkness, Phyllothelys breve, wants to know who will be coming to see us in Blackpool tomorrow for the ...
09/08/2025

The new queen of darkness, Phyllothelys breve, wants to know who will be coming to see us in Blackpool tomorrow for the IHS Breeders meeting?

After three years of asking, I've even persuaded OG Zoe Pentz to help me on the table😎 💪🏻🪳🦗

***Someone needs to come and take this last (reduced) trio of Asiadodis yunnanensis 🌿***

Next show is the IHS breeders meeting in Blackpool a week today where We'll have just the one table but a nice selection...
03/08/2025

Next show is the IHS breeders meeting in Blackpool a week today where We'll have just the one table but a nice selection of inverts nonetheless. After that will be my local one, The Essex Arachnid & Invert Show on the following weekend and two weeks later the Scottish Invert show which I've not yet attended as Rick's Bug Room and excited to make the whole trip north into a mini break 🦗

A busy few weeks ahead 🪲🐜🐛🪳🐌🌿

I've added up to date copies of the 2025 show list, one clean and one marked in green with the shows we'll be attending 🦋

It's Great Ant Exhibition time again! 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜Although Rick's Bug Room won't be in attendance (I've been to Bristol t...
01/08/2025

It's Great Ant Exhibition time again!
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Although Rick's Bug Room won't be in attendance (I've been to Bristol twice already in July) Fran will be there tomorrow trading as The Creature Coven

There will be a good range of inverts on offer and Fran will have isopods, roaches, millipedes and some dry goods. Get down and say Hi if you can and Francesca Sorrell have a great day 🦗🐛🦋🐌🦗🪲

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