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These 1/3-inch water boatmen can catch and eat little fishes.
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Painted ladies should not alight on Aqualand's floor. We put him in
a toad cage.
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Guess what this is?
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Mama wolf spiders carry their egg case with them.
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Bottom view before we performed the "eggectomy"
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Top view of mama wolf spider.
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One-inch caddis fly larva. They live in these little self-made
tubes.
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Iowa slug. Eater of hosta lilies.
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Asian scorpion. Very similar to
Emperor scorpions
-- but smaller.
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Giant African
Millipede.
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Blue bottle flies laying eggs in body of a dead recently hatched robin.
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Damselfly shot at Big Creek Lake.
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Two flies hard at work at Aqualand.
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Different mantid, wild-caught Iowa species.LA
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One month later, she looks ready to lay eggs.
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Finger added to show her small size.
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3/4-inch crickets gut-loading on carrots -- lots of vitamin A.
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I-inch katydid nymph.
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Blue yabbie from Australia.
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6-inch Vietnamese centipede. Not for beginners.
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Genuine American roaches.