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A Complete Guide to Breeding Stick and Leaf Insects by Paul D.
Brock 64 pages $10.00
Stick and leaf insects (also known as phasmids) make ideal pets, being inexpensive to purchase and requiring relatively little in the way of maintenance. The choice is vast and may include, amongst others, spiny monsters, vividly colored winged insects, placid twigs and leaf-like creatures. This book covers all aspects of ownership, with suggestions on selecting the most appropriate species and life stage, detailed consideration of the species readily available in culture, plus useful hints on housing and husbandry. For the ambitious, the author elaborates on the more advanced techniques of breeding phasmids and there is a helpful trouble-shooting section which discusses potential problems together with a variety of solutions.
Tarantulas and Scorpions (Their Care in Captivity) by Jerry G.
Walls 64 pages $10
Tarantulas and scorpions are arachnids, among the oldest land animals on Earth. A new generation of pet keepers has discovered the wonders of these ancient animals. This book gives all the details on their care, offers a stunning selection of species, and outlines their breeding requirements.
A good effort with great pictures and both tarantulas and scorpions. You'll like to see it sitting on your own bookshelf.
This book is our favorite for those whose primary interest is the care and keeping of scorpions. It is loaded with high quality photos and includes nice tables featuring such things as the type of substrate, humidity levels, and even approximate relative strength of venom of many, possibly most common species. Scorpion keepers who own only this book and Biology of Scorpions are leaps and bounds ahead of most others.
Biology of Scorpions by Gary Polis $90.00
An up-to-date synthesis of all that is known about scorpions. The introduction and eleven papers cover anatomy and morphology, systematics, biogeography and paleontology, life history, behavioral responses and activity patterns, ecology, predators, prey and parasites, environmental physiology. Annotation copyright Book News Inc. Portland, Or.
This item currently requires 3-6 weeks for delivery and payment of $20.00 for shipping due to very large size and heavy shipping weight. Books in stock are a second printing identical in text and diagrams to the first printing.
This book became a must have and instant classic upon introduction. Long out of print, We have seen used copies listed for $175 to up to $360. We have had a small run of this book reprinted in order to satisfy the considerable demand for it at more reasonable prices. Get your NEW copy here for only $90.00.
A Complete Guide to Breeding Stick and Leaf Insects by Paul D.
Brock 64 pages $10.00
Stick and leaf insects (also known as phasmids) make ideal pets, being inexpensive to purchase and requiring relatively little in the way of maintenance. The choice is vast and may include, amongst others, spiny monsters, vividly colored winged insects, placid twigs and leaf-like creatures. This book covers all aspects of ownership, with suggestions on selecting the most appropriate species and life stage, detailed consideration of the species readily available in culture, plus useful hints on housing and husbandry. For the ambitious, the author elaborates on the more advanced techniques of breeding phasmids and there is a helpful trouble-shooting section which discusses potential problems together with a variety of solutions.
Tarantulas and Scorpions (Their Care in Captivity) by Jerry G.
Walls 64 pages $10
Tarantulas and scorpions are arachnids, among the oldest land animals on Earth. A new generation of pet keepers has discovered the wonders of these ancient animals. This book gives all the details on their care, offers a stunning selection of species, and outlines their breeding requirements.
A good effort with great pictures and both tarantulas and scorpions. You'll like to see it sitting on your own bookshelf.
Ghost of the Trees (Walking Stick and Leaf Insects) by Orin
McMonigle and Peter Clausen 44 pages $12.00
Phasmid enthusiast handbook, includes sections on growing and choosing food plants, winter feeding, molting, fertilization, native US phasmid list and more.
GPE Tip: This is a competent work by experienced hobbyists who know of what they speak firsthand. This book contains a lot of valuable tips.
Praying Mantids (Keeping Aliens) by A. Lasebny 40 pages $10.00
Information on keeping and breeding praying mantids as
pets. Sections on live foods, oothecae, mating, the mantis garden, US mantids,
and exotic mantids
Allpet Roaches (Care and Identification Handbook
for the Pet and Feeder Cockroaches) by Richard
Willis and Orin McMonigle 41 pages $15.00
Information on breeding pet cockroaches. Identification list with over 70 species discussed and pictured. B/W photos and 4 color plates.
GPE Tip: No one cockroach book we know of for hobbyists describes so many
types of cockroaches.
The Complete Guide to Rearing Grant's Rhinoceros Beetle by Orin McMonigle 37
pages $10.00
Detailed information on egg laying, larval care, feeding, pupation, etc. B/W photos throughout. Expanded sections including pictures and rearing information for Strategus, Megasoma, Phileurus, and other native US rhinoceros beetles. Color photos back cover. Second edition.
GPE Tip: This book is short but packed full of valuable information.
Feeding Insect-Eating Lizards by David L. Zoffer 64 pages $10.00
This guide discusses the feeding of insect-eating lizards. Nutrition, diet selection and species accounts are the main focus of this book. It is completely illustrated with magnificent full-color photographs. A nice description of the many feeder insect options available to reptile keepers and tips on rearing those insects.
GPE Tip: This book contains some good information even for those needing to feed creatures other than lizards such as other invertebrates.
The
Proper Care of Tarantulas by Ann Webb 288 pages $7.00
Despite a bad rap given to many of the books in the TFH publisher's series, this book is actually quite good. It would make an excellent choice for an enthusiast who would like a grounding in the 'basics' plus a little more, such as a close up lesson on sexing tarantulas. Despite a few simple mistakes in editing this book should provide a newer keeper with a great deal of new information.
Giant
Centipedes by Orin McMonigle 44 pages $16.00
While not an encyclopedic or scientific work, this book is a useful account of keeping centipedes in captivity. In a field where few books exist, most keepers will find this book to be a very welcome addition to their library.
The
Complete Guide to Rearing the Elephant Stag Beetle
and Other Stags by Orin McMonigle $14.00
This book describes much of what a keeper needs to know to successfully rear Lucanus elephus and other stag beetles.
INVERTEBRATES
Magazine $16.00
A quarterly magazine full of natural history and rearing information on a wide variety of invertebrates of all kinds, from assassins bugs to grasshoppers to termites, tarantulas, and more.
Written by true enthusiasts for true enthusiasts.
The
Tarantula Keeper's Guide by Stan and Marguerite Schultz 287 pages $14.00
This book is considered by most tarantula keepers to be 'the Bible' on the topic and more worthwhile than the majority of tarantula books combined. Most not only read it, but read it again and again. There is a ton of good quality information here for all levels of keepers. Further, the author has taken the time to revise this book so it is quite current.
Scorpions:
A Complete Pet Owner's Manual by Manny Rubio 95 pages $7.50
A
Step-By-Step Book About Stick Insects by David Alderton 64 pages $6.00
This book is basically an overview of stick insects, offering interesting background facts, general care, food plant tips on a few select species, and some very nice photos. This book is excellent and enjoyable reading for most phasmid enthusiasts and you'll probably enjoy reading and having it on your shelf as well but if you need information on a specific species and/or food plant in a hurry we recommend Ghost of the Trees (Walking Stick and Leaf Insects) by Orin McMonigle and Peter Clausen or A Complete Guide to Breeding Stick and Leaf Insects by Paul D. Brock as first choices. If you already have those more practical references then this book would surely make a nice addition.
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