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Long overdue for another blog post but life just seems to get busier and busier.

Long overdue for another blog post but life just seems to get busier and busier. It’s the time of year when the bugs are breeding and the garden is growing. I often say that my job is like being a gardener, I spend ages potting up baby bugs and am constantly cleaning boxes, tanks and various equipment. I have lots of little praying mantis and need to feed them fruit flies every couple of days. It is such a time- consuming job when I have to use a pooter to move the flies from a net cage into each little pot. Obviously praying mantis, like most of my spiders and scorpions, have to be housed separately or I will eventually end up with one big fat one! Praying mantis are voracious feeders. A few weeks ago, I brought a large collection of arachnids. It has been a lot of work but I am just about getting on top of it all now. You might have read on my Facebook page about me deciding to sacrifice a large part of my office so that we could move the wall and therefore create a lot more space in...