Our leafcutter ant queen has been busy laying eggs that hatch into winged princesses - future queens. Turns out that her other daughters don't think much of this, so are chopping them up and putting them in the rubbish dump! Brutal! #TropicalBugZoo #BugZoo #TheBugFarm
New baby alert! This jungle nymph adult female is huge (about 10cm long), but the brown nymph to her right that hatched yesterday (after over a year in an egg) is teeny! #TropicalBugZoo #BugZoo #bugs #insects #NewBaby #TheBugFarm
📸 Grace Leach
Our ghost mantis moulted successfully and is now hanging upside-down once again pretending to be a dead leaf! 🤩.
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📸 Emily Sheehan
A family group of our stunning, jewel-like emerald cockroaches. We started with a small number of individuals, and the Bug Zoo team have done a great job getting the conditions right for them so that we now have a thriving population. #BugZoo #TropicalBugZoo #TheBugFarm
We've never seen one of our golden orb web spiders with this much yellow on before - isn't she beautiful! #TropicalBugZoo #BugZoo #Arachnids #Spiders #TheBugFarm
Tofu and the rest of the tropical invertebrates are very grateful for the underfloor heating in the Tropical Bug Zoo today (as are we)!
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Tofu, our Mexican red knee tarantula, is looking pretty splendid at the moment! 📸 Angela Samuel #Tarantula #TropicalBugZoo #BugZoi #TheBugFarm
When threatened, Macleay's spectre stick insects curl their abdomen around to mimic a scorpion as a form of defence! We love showing our visitors these characterful stick insects! #TropicalBugZoo #TheBugFarm
📸 Hannah Kerr
