Virginia Cheeseman Blog

Out most of yesterday so lots to catch up on today. It’s been another busy week, lots of creatures going out, thankfully making room for more animals to fill their empty cages. Spring officially starts tomorrow and everything seems to be in an amorous state. My two male Corn snakes are constantly thrashing around their vivarium but I’m not letting them near my females. It was lovely to have beautiful baby snakes but I had a nightmare trying to find homes, nobody wanted them, I’m definitely sticking with the bugs! I bought some new plastic boxes from Wilko this week and now I just need the time to sort them out. They are longer, deeper boxes and much easier to manoeuvre. I bought one last year and it just sat on my office shelf unused for months. I recently rediscovered it, made some holes in the lid and set up a colony of Dubia cockroaches. The cockroaches are doing well and the box sits nicely on my shelving, it is a much better shape, smaller and therefore lighter. There is not a lot...

Animals everywhere! I received lots of new bugs and spiders from various places this week, they are now listed on the website but I haven’t got all the photos sorted yet. Hopefully I will get it done today. I am staying in and have a huge list of things to be done. Only problem is that I’m not sure the day will be long enough! I have some lovely new creatures, a few I am keeping for breeding like the Armoured Bush crickets. I have just the one pair and they are spectacular, the female is huge but I don’t really know much about breeding them. I think they may need special conditions like cool and warm periods, which isn’t likely to happen in my bug room. I will certainly take some photos of them today and hopefully get a picture on the blog. I must admit that I failed in my attempts to upload a photo to the blog last week so I may have to wait for my hubby to get in and sort it out for me. I am trying to get to grips with technology but it takes a while for me to get the hang of it. My ...

What a busy week, I don’t seem to have stopped and when I look around my office and bug room I don’t seem to have got very far! My office desk is covered in paperwork and the bug room looks like a tornado has hit. I am staying indoors today to clear things up before the weekend (I was going to say everything but it won’t be everything). I have a lot of new animals coming in next week, tarantulas, true spiders, scorpions, millipedes, snails and more. It really is a very busy time with spring just around the corner and of course Easter only a couple of weeks away. I have sent out about twice as many parcels as usual this week (very pleased). I am trying to stick with posting on Tuesdays and Thursdays only and it seems to be going well, clearly one of my better ideas! For years I posted orders on Mondays but it really takes over the weekend which isn’t fair on my family, especially now that my husband is off at weekends. It was quite different in his old job when he had time off during th...