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Hello and welcome to InverteCast.

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I am Leah from Torrentia Leah.

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And I have with me as always Simon from the Mantis Garden.

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Hello Simon.

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Hello Leah.

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Oh, so, oh no.

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What is going on with my, okay, here we go.

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We're a crazy thing.

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I must have hit a button or something.

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So today we are going to be talking about Reduvaide, also known as, well that's the

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subfamily that they are, but these are assassin bugs.

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They're pretty popular throughout the Inverte hobby.

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They're really, really cool pets.

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So we're just, we're going to go ahead and jump right into talking about these guys

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and why we keep them, what they eat, what they do.

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And yeah.

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So Simon, do you have anything to start us out with assassin bugs?

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I know you have a few.

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You've made a couple of videos about them.

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Yeah.

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I do.

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I am a Pusky Marriage Book Attachers and I have a Psytala reader.

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I'd like some more, but they're quite difficult to get old of, you know, the different species

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of them.

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The African ones are quite chunky, nice and big, so they make pretty good pets.

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But I don't mind the smaller ones.

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You've got stuff over there like wheelbugs, et cetera.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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We just don't have here.

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So I would like some of those or something similar.

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So after we turn up in our hobby, of course, because I'm in the UK and you've been in America,

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it's a different set of books, if you like.

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I could say books a lot tonight because these are actually true books.

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True books.

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Yes.

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The good memory is all insects are books, but not all books are insects, which is, you

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know, I like that.

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I like that.

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That's funny.

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True bugs.

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So true bugs are in a sub, like a sub family of insects that are known as hem...

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Sorry.

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Hemid...

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Hemidip...

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Hemidipter.

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Yeah, hemiptera.

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I have trouble sometimes with the Latin words, but...

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It's 183, actually, in the heavy of the powerful part, and terrap, as everyone knows, means

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wing.

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Half wing.

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Half wing, yes.

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And that's exactly how they got their name, and that's why what makes them a true bug

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is that half of their wing is a hard kind of exoskeleton type material, whereas the

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other half is the mucus type of...

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Kind of a mucus or a membrane.

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It's a membrane on the end.

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So you've got like the last part of the wing, actually there on that.

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The last part of the wing is sticking out just a membrane showing with the...

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...except for...

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You should see three or four of them, normally.

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Right.

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That's amazing.

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So yeah, so it's a pretty big family of insects, obviously.

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There are...

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I did a bit of research, and I found that there are four sub-orders of the hemiptera, and these

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are really huge, probably Greek and Latin words that are incredibly hard to pronounce.

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So we've got the ar...

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Our kenal...

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...heinkum...

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...or hoppers.

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They're a type of hopper, so I'm going to assume that these would be like grass hoppers,

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crickets, stuff like that.

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No, they wouldn't.

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They're different.

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All the can be...

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...an insect order.

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The hoppers to talk about things like leaf hoppers, so you've got like leaf hoops, skint

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bugs, leaf bugs, aphids, they're all in that sort of...

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In that area under an itra, which is an umbrella, as you say, it contains several different

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The mitra is like a subspecies, not species, sorry, a sub-order.

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Yeah, the sub-orders.

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It's like assassin bugs, et cetera.

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But most an itra actually eats sap from stems of plants, et cetera.

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Oh, that's pretty fascinating.

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So yeah, we're going to focus on assassin bugs, which are in the sub-order of heteroptera,

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which would be true bugs.

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And so they also include like six other sub-orders of insects.

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So we've got the aphidoidate, aphidoidate, so aphids, they also include...

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Yeah, it's a lot.

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The 18 flies like thrifts, aphids, black flies, all the stuff you kind of roasties and stuff

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in your garden, they just say are sucking the sap out of them.

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But that's, yeah, that's one order.

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That's one sub-order, so to say.

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Right, right.

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I can't look it in front of me, so I can't read anything to sort of...

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I know I've got my little notebook here.

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You're in charge of that.

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You're in charge of that.

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I try.

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They also, it also includes cicadas, so we've got the cicadae, and then tingeidae, tingeidae,

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Yeah, there's so many.

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It's crazy.

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But assassin bugs are in the family of reduvadae, so reduvadae.

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I'm saying reduvadae, yeah.

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I'm saying that probably so wrong.

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But these guys, they're really cool, and we can go with a little bit of their anatomy

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to begin with.

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So they have this beak-like structure as a mouth that they use to essentially puncture

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their prey, and it injects their venom, and then the venom basically helps to break down

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that, inverts like insides and whatnot, so that they can slurp up all the juices, and

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that's essentially, they are a carnivorous insect, so they prey on other insects, and

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so that's...

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They use that little beak for.

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It has a proper name, and I just don't know it.

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I've heard some people say proboscis as well, is it?

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Yeah, proboscis, yes.

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I believe that's...

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I think you're absolutely right about that.

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A couple of them.

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A couple of them.

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So it's not quite right.

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The rostrum is probably the correct word for the beak.

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So I've gone with rostrum, personally.

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No, I'll get it.

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I mean, I've never been stung or bitten by an assassin bug, which is good, because I

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hear it's kind of painful, so I'm not sure...

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It's almost like a bee sting from what I hear, but it's actually a little more painful, because

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it can last actually a couple of days of the stinging sensation, just overall itching and

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discomfort, and it's just not a fun bite, for sure.

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And there are blood-sucking types of assassin bugs, which I didn't realize there were.

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I also learned that there is another type of assassin bug that is really common here

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in the States.

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They're commonly known as the bed bug hunter, so they're called the masked bed bug hunter,

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and that is exactly what they do.

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They essentially hunt for bed bugs, and so people have been bitten by this type of assassin

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bug just because they're actually after bed bugs, which is kind of cool.

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They're very beneficial in that way.

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They also...

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Assassin bugs are pretty beneficial to a lot of people just because they go after pests

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and other bugs that we really aren't great fans of, if you will, but they're really fascinating

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creatures because, again, they are those true bugs, so the proboscis is something that is

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known to be prominent throughout all true bugs.

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And so, yeah, it's pretty cool.

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They are also social, so they do live communally.

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I have three of the white-spotted assassin bugs, which are apparently really common here

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in the States in our hobby, and they're really...

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They're a lot of fun to watch.

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You just dump some crickets in there and stuff, and they will pretty much do their thing.

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They'll hunt down the crickets and whatnot, but then fight with one another over crickets.

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They'll steal crickets from one another.

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I've also seen them sharing crickets, so it's really fascinating to watch them because they

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are really cool social insects.

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They have that social aspect to them.

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So do you know how many separate species of assassin bugs that there are?

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No, not stuff like that.

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I'm just going through them.

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One of the ones I know is the kissing bug, which is one of the most well-known of all

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the emitros, probably the kissing bug, which is responsible for a lot of problems, a lot

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of illness, especially in places like Brazil where it's quite prominent and people do get

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bitten by it, and it passes on all sorts of things.

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So, yeah, a bit of a dodgy one, that one.

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I know I don't know how many there are in their order, so you can enlighten me with

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that one.

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Yes, definitely.

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I believe there are four species that are actually, you should be wary of because they

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do spread some diseases that can be very dreadful, obviously, but for the most part, they are

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not quite as dangerous.

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But worldwide, there are 7,000 different species of assassin bugs, which is very impressive.

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100, I mean, they're very widespread throughout the world, and 160 of those species are native

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to the United States.

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So I mean, we're only really going to talk about one or two that we know of that are

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really, really common, and most people kind of know what they are, like the will bugs

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and kissing bugs, and then, of course, the masked bed bug hunters.

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But I mean, 160 here in the States, I'm not sure how many are in Europe and whatnot, but

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I mean, they are pretty much found on every continent except for Antarctica.

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And also, you mentioned this to me, and then I did a bit of research, how we found one

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of the very first fossils that was ever found in Colorado or like the Green River, or what

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is it, the Green Valley region of like Utah and Colorado, Bits and Wyoming, they found

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a 50 million year old assassin bug fossil, which is pretty impressive.

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Again, it's one of those things that, you know, how cool that they found that, and it

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was 50 million years old.

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So these are not new bugs, if you will.

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Yeah, there are a lot of them though.

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I mean, it's like, you see an insect, you don't think anything of it, but well, just

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squish that or whatever, you don't realize it's been here so long, and a lot longer than

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Yeah, man's history, as in, well not all the sapiens, but just this generic man, let's

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say, if human, only goes back two million years.

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they've been around.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Which is slightly less realized, you know, you don't really have any right to go around

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squishing these things or killing them, they think they're one of the real, so you know,

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they've got a bit of respect, I think, a lot of them.

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Because I can't see us being around with 50 million years, to be honest with you.

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So, you know, they deserve some respect, even when we've gone.

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You know, I can still watch them hanging around doing their thing.

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I think you can see what we've done, you know, we've just calmed down.

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So yeah, I think it's quite impressive that we've been around.

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You know, like you say, it's been 50 million years, it's like half a long time.

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Definitely.

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I mean, there are, you know, pieces of amber that, you know, usually go up for like auction

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or go on sale and they can cost like two to three hundred dollars, depending on the piece.

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But they have found these, like Jurassic Park was actually legit, that there are bugs in

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amber that are 150 million years old.

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And so yeah, I mean, it's something to be said about how long these insects and just

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incredible species have been here on Earth.

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And yeah, like you said, 25 times over, they've been here 25 times longer than we have.

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So it's pretty fascinating, if you will.

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And let's, yeah, let's see.

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So Boz and says, awesome.

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Thank you, Boz and we appreciate that.

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Absolutely.

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So yeah, like let's, let's talk about, you know, what makes assassin bugs so such cool

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pets because obviously they are pretty prominent in the hobby.

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I think a lot of people who keep inverts also keep assassin bugs.

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So what do you think makes them such a cool pet, Simon?

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I think it's the feeding response to be honest with you.

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And one of the biggest factors for me is that when it's here behind me, I've got to keep

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them all in one pot each or whatever.

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My assassin bugs are over there in a big tank and there's loads of them.

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And they're just like hanging out together.

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They don't care, crawl over each other, nobody gets hurt, no trouble here.

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Now, just as long as you've got enough food, they're quite happenst to live communially,

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which, which is something that, you know, if you used to keeping things like mantis

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or even tarantulas that you can't keep together, you get one, one bug like this.

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And I can put 10 or 20 in here and they're fine together to really be a big attraction,

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I think.

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And also you've got several different species, very colorful, you know, that they're beautiful

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to look at.

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And the feeding response is brilliant.

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I mean, Japan full of crickets in.

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And you might have 10 on the floor going for different things, whereas like if it's a spider

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or mantis, you just give them one thing each time.

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And that's it, but just an ant full of a watcher or go crazy over and sharing and fighting

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over it.

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I just find it really fascinating to watch.

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And as a bonus, you can make the tank look nice.

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You can make real plants, you can do a background, you can make it look nice.

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And they won't ruin it at all.

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It's brilliant.

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Whereas, you know, that is definitely ruining it, but you can't have plants.

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You know, that'd be so busy otherwise it disturbs the mountain.

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So there's a problem there.

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As you know, tarantulas, they kind of mess things up quite a lot.

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They do.

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You've got other input that's like you could mess it up or eat the plants or, you know,

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dig them up like 9 millipenters, you don't dig everything up, you don't care.

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They do.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, you can, you've got a tank there, which is basically a terrarium, you can make

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it look nice as you want, put some assassin books in, everybody's happy.

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You know, you've got some colorful books, you've got colorful books, you've got a nice looking

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tank and it's going to stay that way as long as you keep throwing the food in.

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So, you know, I've all worked for a market, they're brilliant.

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Really are super cool, super cool books.

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I think so too.

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I actually really like that they are very colorful, especially the horridah species.

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I forget what the first...

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Saitala horridah.

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Saitala horridah, yep.

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They are, they're beautiful.

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They're such a beautiful species.

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I also think that they make great pets because they have that social aspect.

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Just like you said, they're going to be, you know, chasing crickets around and fighting

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one another for crickets.

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They're going to, you know, sometimes they share the crickets, which is another really

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cool thing to watch because, you know, like you said, with mantises and tarantulas, they

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don't really do that a whole lot.

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I mean, I can think of one species that is kind of communal in the tarantula hubby, so

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like the monocentropus balfouris.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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They, you know, and if you get a big enough colony of these guys, like they will share

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prey items, but not like the assassin bugs, definitely not, or the, you know, Saitala

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horridah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, they're just so cool.

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They're really fun to watch.

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It's fun to watch them hunt.

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And then once they get their prey, it's kind of cool to see their proboscis come down and

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stab the cricket, you know.

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I like watching them grow.

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I like, you know, as they, because throughout their lifespan and their molten whatnot, they,

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you know, they kind of change color.

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They start to look differently.

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Those wings are coming through.

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I mean, they're pretty fascinating creatures, absolutely.

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And I think that, I think they're kind of underrated, to be honest.

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I think they're just one of those inverts that's just kind of underrated, you know, people

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know about them and possibly enjoy them, but I feel like they just don't get the credit

307
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and attention that they really deserve because they are really, really cool.

308
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Yeah, true, true.

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I mean, you've got the other, you've got the other point for them.

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I mean, molten, you don't have to say problem with molten.

311
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You're not worried about molten.

312
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Yeah.

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They will hang like mantis on the back of the lang anywhere.

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And they'll just slip out the molten.

315
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You just don't worry.

316
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Yeah.

317
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And not like it would be with the spider or a mantis and the molten.

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You're like, quick, don't disturb them.

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Don't make any of it because they'll, you know, fall off and die or whatever.

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But with those, it just doesn't really matter at all.

321
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And the other thing, pairing them, you haven't got the same.

322
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We've got with torrential inventors where you're pairing them and it takes hours and

323
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you're messing about.

324
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Yeah.

325
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You just don't have to do the same.

326
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They'll pair themselves.

327
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It's great.

328
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They just wait some extra.

329
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Yeah, they do their own thing.

330
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That's it.

331
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They do their own thing.

332
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And if you've got ten, you're going to have a hundred babies in a matter of a month or

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two.

334
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Oh, I believe it.

335
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I believe it.

336
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You know, you can't fault me.

337
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I can't find anything wrong with them apart from finding somewhere to put the babies.

338
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Right.

339
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You've got thousands of them because it just keeps producing.

340
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Right.

341
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They do.

342
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I have three that are still like juveniles and nymphs.

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I think one that is on the verge of becoming an adult, but the other two are still pretty

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small and they're just, they're juveniles, you know, if you will.

345
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But they're, like I said, they're a lot of fun to watch.

346
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They are really, really cool.

347
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And they're pretty.

348
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Mine have those pretty like stripes, the yellow stripes on their legs.

349
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They don't quite have those white spots on their back just yet.

350
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But I'm, I mean, I'm looking forward to seeing that as they grow.

351
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I love watching them eat.

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I love watching them hunt.

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I mean, I could sit there for a very long time watching them just hunt the crickets and

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eating.

355
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The only thing that I will say that is definitely a bit different than the tarantulas and possibly

356
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even with mantises, oh yeah, definitely with mantises is that when they're done eating,

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they will leave the exoskeleton of their prey items.

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They'll kind of just drop it and leave it.

359
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Whereas tarantulas and mantises eat the whole thing.

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So there's nothing, nothing left behind, right?

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So that, that is one thing you do kind of got to go into the enclosure and like clean

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out some of the, the dead exoskeletons from the crickets and whatnot.

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Because you don't want to leave that behind that that's going to attract those gnats and

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aphids and you know, other little pest creatures that, that really can cause problems obviously.

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The key, the armadillian species with them, the isopod, they eat, they eat the bodies,

366
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the leftovers.

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So I never have to remove them because they eat them.

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So it's not a big deal.

369
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And I never thought to keep the isopods in with the assassin bugs because I was worried

370
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that you know, the assassin bugs would actually eat the isopods, but I suppose they wouldn't.

371
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If they're really hungry, they will have a go.

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But if they're eating crickets, they'll go for the crickets.

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I mean, the lidium species are really tough.

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So you know, and you put it getting away from things to be honest with you, they're really

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good at it because they roll up in a ball.

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It's quite difficult for them to, to bottle it.

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So I find out no problem with them at all.

378
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They just carry on eating and breeding.

379
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So I might have to introduce, so I might have to introduce a few.

380
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Yeah, yeah, just, just make sure the cheekbones.

381
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Yeah, right.

382
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Well, and I do know that, I do know that assassin bugs will become cannibalistic if there is

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not enough prey items for everybody to eat.

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So that is another thing to kind of watch out for with these guys.

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But as long as you are feeding them properly and you put enough prey items that everybody

386
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at least gets one or two, then you shouldn't have a problem with the cannibalistic tendencies

387
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from, from these guys.

388
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But they're, you know, there's just such a fascinating creature.

389
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And they, there's actually a lot of benefits to assassin bugs in, you know, in the environment.

390
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I know they actually help with pest control.

391
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And you know, we talked a little bit about crops and, you know, farmers using beneficial

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insects to kind of keep those pest, pest populations down to protect their crops.

393
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And assassin bugs are one of those inverts that is actually really beneficial to farmers.

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Unfortunately, they're not really used as much as like a ladybugs and mantises are throughout

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the farming population if you are the farming community, which I think is a real shame because

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I think they're a lot more efficient than, than ladybugs and mantises probably would

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be.

398
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Although I think it's the fear of the fact that they can, they can bite us.

399
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I think that's, that's a bit of a, you know, concern.

400
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,880
I'd say that's probably why you don't use them.

401
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,040
Yeah, I could see that because you're probably right.

402
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,720
Sorry, I'm sorry Simon.

403
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:44,080
Yeah, it's like, if it, if once, for instance, was a good, we say, ah, yeah, really good

404
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for getting rid of things.

405
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,080
Absolutely.

406
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But you wouldn't, if I had a farmer, I can't imagine, ah, just like this wasps swarm, go

407
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because I'd be frightened of them sticking me.

408
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So yeah, I can see the same thing with assassin bugs.

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You'd be like, should I put 10,000 assassin bugs on my crops or not?

410
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So it's, it's like, you, you, you get fit into hell, I should imagine.

411
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So I think, I think they do really hurt.

412
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You said before about you not being, yeah, they do hurt, yeah, they're not a pleasant

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bite at all.

414
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So yeah, definitely not.

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It's, you want to get bitten by a test.

416
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:35,320
So but also when I say this, don't believe the coyote guy either because, oh, springing

417
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,480
that's ridiculous.

418
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:45,320
Actually, he, he did an episode where he got, he, I mean, he purposely gets bit by a lot

419
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of creatures, but he, he got bit by a Goliath bird eater, which obviously is like the largest

420
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tarantula species in the world.

421
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:02,160
And his reaction to the bite was just kind of like, are you, you're, you can't be serious,

422
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,160
bro.

423
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,560
Like that is not, no.

424
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Because the way he reacted to it, the way he put, you know, that pain scale of that bite,

425
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:15,520
I was just kind of like, no, I think he's full of crap.

426
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And I hate to say that about him because, you know, he does have a lot of really great

427
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:25,320
information about, you know, inverts and creatures.

428
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,280
You know, so as far as that goes, I really love what he does.

429
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,080
But when it comes down to like, when he's actually taking the bites and stuff, it's

430
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:42,440
just kind of, okay, he's, he, I feel he over dramatizes things a little much, just, I think

431
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for that attention, you know, kind of that click bait, if you will.

432
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So yeah, don't, don't, don't put a ton of stock into him and his reactions to bites.

433
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I agree with you on that.

434
00:27:55,280 --> 00:28:01,280
But the information that he puts out on the species of critters that he's being bit by

435
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is all really great information.

436
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:10,160
So he's just a rowling on the floor business and they're screaming and it's like, you're

437
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,160
not serious, mate.

438
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,160
You're not serious.

439
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,160
They do not hurt that much.

440
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:21,160
It's, and everything I don't like is like, say, got bitten by a guy third eater.

441
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:27,920
He must have really, really wound that up for it's biting because they just don't bite

442
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:28,920
us, do they?

443
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:29,920
You know that?

444
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:30,920
No.

445
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:31,920
Bite us on purpose.

446
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,920
No, definitely not.

447
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:33,920
Bite you.

448
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,720
You've got to wind it off.

449
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:36,720
And I don't like that.

450
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,400
I don't think that's, I don't think that's fair of a creature.

451
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To be honest.

452
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Yeah, I agree.

453
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And I feel that it kind of plays into that fear mongering side of things where, okay,

454
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:54,800
this is really scary, like, ah, and it's just not, it's not really fair to the creature,

455
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:55,800
to be honest.

456
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Like it's not really given that creature a fair shake.

457
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,120
It's just, you know, because then you're just breeding fear into people.

458
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,080
You're just like showing them, giving them reasons to fear things.

459
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:14,640
And it's like, no, let's give people reasons to understand and to embrace these, you know,

460
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:15,640
but yeah, I agree.

461
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,360
I feel like his reactions are just, they're just over the top and it's kind of silly.

462
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:30,760
But you can put one on your hand and it will walk around like that unless you start poking

463
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,760
it.

464
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,680
It's 99% it's not going to bite you.

465
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,680
It's all that food.

466
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,880
It's, oh, it's just something to walk off.

467
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,280
So you know, it's not, it's not going to bite you.

468
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,680
It's not going to attack you.

469
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:50,120
It's just going to go through your fingers in the tank if you put your hand in.

470
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:56,120
But if you're doing this, you know, your hand probably looks like some kind of book.

471
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,240
So I don't really blame them for that.

472
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,240
I don't either.

473
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,240
And it will walk on your hand.

474
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,240
And it's fine.

475
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,240
But I wouldn't advise anybody to handle them.

476
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,240
You know, just because they might bite.

477
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:15,720
But if you really, really won't say, you can do it.

478
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,480
I mean, they have the potential, but it's not, you know, it's not going to be a deadly

479
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,480
thing.

480
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:26,320
It's not going to be something that you're really going to need to worry about so much.

481
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:34,640
Like I said, there are a few species, but they are in more kind of remote areas of,

482
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:39,600
you know, like the Amazon rainforest and stuff like that, that they will kind of spread.

483
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,960
There's a couple of diseases that can be very problematic, obviously.

484
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,200
But those species are going to be pretty rare.

485
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,800
Like you're not going to come across them, you know, in your backyard or something like

486
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,920
that, you know.

487
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:55,920
Yeah.

488
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,120
So the risk for those guys is pretty low.

489
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,480
But as far as like the common species that we all know, like, you know, wheelbugs or

490
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:10,960
the masked bed bug hunters, you know, if they bite us, it's going to be a bit painful, but

491
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:16,640
it's not going to be, you know, like what you said, Coyote Peterson rolling on the ground,

492
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,640
like dying.

493
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,600
It's not going to be that.

494
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,160
I haven't been bit.

495
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,440
So that's, that's fascinating.

496
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,000
I know you said you have.

497
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,200
So do you have any like firsthand experience?

498
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,440
Like, can you tell us a little bit about what that experience was like?

499
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:39,000
It's just a lot of swearing, really.

500
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
I can imagine.

501
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Yeah, that's all it is.

502
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
You know, that's not actually true.

503
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Sure.

504
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,840
But nothing else, you know, nothing, nothing more than that, you know, swear a few times.

505
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:52,840
Yeah.

506
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Yeah.

507
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:54,840
That's it, really.

508
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,160
Did it draw, did it draw any blood at all?

509
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,400
Was there, you know, because I know it's more of a, like a puncture wound, right?

510
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,960
I mean, were you able to?

511
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,680
Yeah, just, that's it, you know, like you did.

512
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,680
Just a little, okay, cool.

513
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:15,840
So I mean, the bites really aren't as, as much to be worried about.

514
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,280
I mean, if they do draw blood, it's probably not going to be a whole lot, just that tiny

515
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,080
little, you know, which is great.

516
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:28,080
If you don't like blood, then, you know, so don't, don't angle.

517
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,880
I mean, this guy, this guy has brought more blood.

518
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,880
Uh-huh.

519
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,880
You're mad, too?

520
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,880
No, this guy can bring a lot of blood, believe it or not.

521
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:40,880
Oh.

522
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:41,880
I love a lot of blood.

523
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:49,720
Grabbing, like, if I was, like, feeding it like that now and it grabbed my finger instead

524
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:55,200
of the food, it would cut it and it would, it would cut it in several places and I love

525
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,200
to bleed.

526
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,200
So, yeah, I would say they're more dangerous.

527
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,200
They're scary.

528
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,200
Okay.

529
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,200
It's scarier than, definitely scarier than an assassin book.

530
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,640
So, you know, if you've got a mantis, you've got a pet mantis, don't worry about your assassin

531
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:13,640
book.

532
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640
That's not the one that's going to hurt.

533
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,640
That's, that's fine.

534
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,960
No, yeah, I think I've been bitten by a mantis.

535
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,320
I think I've been bitten by a spiny flower mantis.

536
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Uh, the African species.

537
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,200
And I, yeah, yeah, that guy.

538
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,200
Wow.

539
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,320
I love them.

540
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:40,200
And even though I did have, like, and it wasn't a bad bite, it didn't hurt as much as, as

541
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,840
you, you might think it would.

542
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:48,280
It was a little bit of a sting, but nothing, nothing like, it didn't even last more than

543
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,280
like 10 minutes.

544
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,520
You know, like it wasn't very painful.

545
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,640
It was just kind of like, Hey, what are you doing?

546
00:33:53,640 --> 00:34:01,040
You know, uh, so I would imagine that last week, um, she drew blood.

547
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,760
My wife, she actually bit her enough to, to, to draw blood.

548
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:06,760
So, oh goodness.

549
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,760
And that's a tiny, tiny mantis.

550
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760
That's a tiny, tiny mantis.

551
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:12,760
Yeah.

552
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,760
It's just not quite a chunky monkey.

553
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:21,040
So if that one, if that one, uh, it's not the bites of the arms.

554
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,040
It's the arms that hurt.

555
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,040
Yeah.

556
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,040
Right.

557
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,040
Right.

558
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,040
Right.

559
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,040
Because they don't let go.

560
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,040
Well, they don't.

561
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,040
They don't let go off, but they don't let go.

562
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,920
So, so, it's that's the books.

563
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,040
Put right down on the pain scale, right down on the, you know, the worry scale.

564
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,040
I would say.

565
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,040
Yeah, absolutely.

566
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,360
I think they're like a 0.5 on the pain scale.

567
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,160
It's, they're not very painful.

568
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,040
It's not going to be something that you're going to have to like go to the hospital for.

569
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,280
It's definitely not like life threatening or medically significant.

570
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,960
They're just, you know, they're, um, they're, I'd love them though.

571
00:34:58,960 --> 00:34:59,960
I really do.

572
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:05,240
I, I think I would take a bite from one of them anytime, uh, just because they are just

573
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:06,240
such cool critters.

574
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:11,880
Like they're just such cool, uh, fascinating insects and they happen naturally all throughout

575
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,440
the world, which is another reason that I think they are really, really cool.

576
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:22,480
And, uh, you know, keeping, keeping people from fearing them, maybe helping people to

577
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,480
understand them and kind of get that idea that these guys, they're not harmful.

578
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,200
They're not going to hurt you.

579
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,880
Like if they're so much better in your yard, so don't kill them because they're helping

580
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:34,880
you out.

581
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:40,680
Just like, you know, the spiders and mantises do, they, they, they keep the, the pest critters

582
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,680
away for the most part.

583
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:43,680
And, uh,

584
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,680
It doesn't help though, does it?

585
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:46,680
I'm sorry.

586
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:47,680
The name doesn't help.

587
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,680
It's happening.

588
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:49,680
It doesn't help.

589
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,680
It doesn't help with the, you know, the PR, the PR guy.

590
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:53,680
It's like, yeah.

591
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,680
Because the assassin book, and that's why they are assassins.

592
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,680
So they got that.

593
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,280
They get, why are they assassin bugs?

594
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,280
Do you know why they're called that?

595
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,280
Well, they actually assassinate the prey.

596
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:06,280
Don't they?

597
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,280
So I sit there and assassinate the prey.

598
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,280
So I, I assume that's why they call assassin books.

599
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:12,280
I think so too.

600
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,680
I think it's cause they are kind of sneaky.

601
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:20,280
They will come up behind their prey item and they just kind of scoop it up and, you

602
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,280
know, they're going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, oh,

603
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,280
let's get these guys to go to the back of the box and give it a good stab with that

604
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,280
probiscus.

605
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,880
And yeah, I think that's why they're called assassin bugs, because, you know, they are

606
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:32,880
like little assassins.

607
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:33,880
I love that though.

608
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,880
I think it's really cool.

609
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,880
It's not good for the PR though, is it?

610
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,880
It's just no good for the PR.

611
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:41,880
No, I agree.

612
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,880
I agree.

613
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:43,880
Because, you know, you hear assassins.

614
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,880
You can do it later.

615
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,880
I'd get swear and say stuff.

616
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:48,880
But yeah.

617
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,880
Yeah, absolutely.

618
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,880
There's nothing naming itself just makes it sound scary.

619
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,000
So, I agree.

620
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:57,840
I agree.

621
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,280
You can call it a spider, Peter.

622
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,720
Yeah, yeah.

623
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:01,560
You know what I'm saying?

624
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,160
Ah, little bug with a knife.

625
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,000
You know what I mean?

626
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,800
It's going to, again, I can't square which I've looked at.

627
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,080
But you know what I'm saying?

628
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:11,920
You know what I'm saying?

629
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:12,960
You and me both, Simon.

630
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,560
You and me both.

631
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,800
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

632
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,320
It's just one good name.

633
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,320
Yeah.

634
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:26,720
Help with people understanding them and accepting them

635
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,880
as something useful rather than, you know,

636
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,920
something nasty that's sitting there in a tree

637
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,640
waiting to jump on you.

638
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:34,480
Right.

639
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,960
It's like a sassy book.

640
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,600
I mean, our sassy books are, well, nothing.

641
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,160
You can't really see the tiny, tiny things.

642
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,000
And we don't have many anyway.

643
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,560
It don't appear to like temperate climates, which is sad for me.

644
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,280
I mean, there's little gear in the way of books.

645
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,080
But sassy books, even less.

646
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,160
We do have a Mitra.

647
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,800
We do have quite a lot of Mitra in the UK.

648
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,360
Oh, well, that's cool.

649
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,800
Like, we've got a lot of leaf books and scenic books

650
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,920
and leaf hoppers and stuff like that.

651
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,720
But, sir, I have a lot of leaf, especially on my roses.

652
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:13,240
So, yeah.

653
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:14,400
Yeah.

654
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,600
I'm not going to shout about paying in the neck.

655
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,200
But whatever.

656
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,800
It's been nice to actually, if I was like, when I was seeing you,

657
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,040
I'd probably spend an entire day in the garden

658
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,840
looking for different books that we don't have.

659
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,200
And sassy books would definitely be one of the ones

660
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,080
top my list, especially a real book.

661
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,240
I really love a real book.

662
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,000
I think they are all cool.

663
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,080
They are such cool little characters.

664
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,040
I mean, they're fascinating.

665
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,920
I know the two-spotted guys that I have,

666
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,520
they're not super active until food appears.

667
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,400
And then they start kind of, they start wandering around

668
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,120
and they want to get to those crickets.

669
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,760
So it would probably be pretty easy to find a few

670
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,480
because they're not going to run from you.

671
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:11,320
They're not constantly moving like a lot of other insects do.

672
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,960
So I bet they're pretty easy to find.

673
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,520
I should imagine that.

674
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,960
You have so many as well.

675
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,320
And the 106, that's a lot of choices.

676
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,080
Yeah, that's quite a few.

677
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,160
You've got to find some sassy books.

678
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,040
But honestly, I made the mistake of the tank they're in

679
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,160
wasn't made for them.

680
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,320
Oh, no.

681
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,360
The background, they can actually, I made background.

682
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,040
They rock, it's all rocks going together.

683
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,840
So go up the back.

684
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,840
And they're all in between each other thing.

685
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,520
And they can actually get down the back.

686
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,280
So they spent all day down the back and you never see them.

687
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,280
So showing the dead, it's a terrarium.

688
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,760
And then it's just when you put food in,

689
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,320
all of a sudden there's massive movement

690
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,760
that's catching the food and they all come out from the back.

691
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,200
And they're all out.

692
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,280
It's really cute.

693
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,640
So I've got a strange, heavy and an assassin

694
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,160
feast tank at night.

695
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,160
It's great.

696
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,080
I love it.

697
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,680
I love it.

698
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:17,760
That's wonderful.

699
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,560
How funny that they all hide behind the earth.

700
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,040
Yeah, I'm looking at them.

701
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,000
I put them in the nymphs.

702
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,480
I thought, oh, they're hiding behind the back now.

703
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,240
They won't get a dup when they get bigger.

704
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,600
But yeah, they all get down the back as well.

705
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,240
They're all hiding behind the back.

706
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:35,120
It's weird.

707
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,200
It's so disappointing to me, at least.

708
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,160
Oh, I can imagine.

709
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,640
I mean, I definitely prefer the cork round

710
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:42,600
that I have in there.

711
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,440
So I have a pretty good sized chunk of a cork round

712
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,800
that I put into their enclosure.

713
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,080
And they pretty much don't leave it.

714
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,960
Like they stay right on that thing.

715
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,400
And they molt upside down.

716
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,160
So that's another interesting thing about them,

717
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,640
is that when they are going through their life cycles,

718
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,960
we say life cycle and molting.

719
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,200
But that's actually what it is.

720
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,280
When they molt, they are changing

721
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,160
into the next life cycle.

722
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:14,320
And they do it upside down.

723
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,200
So they're hanging from a leaf or the part of the cork round.

724
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,480
And as they molt, they just kind of slip right out

725
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,280
in their old exoskeleton.

726
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,600
And I know mantises do it upside down as well,

727
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,880
like from hanging from branches or leaves.

728
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,440
So that's really quite fascinating.

729
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,840
Do you know why they do that?

730
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,080
I mean, why they molt?

731
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,840
Yeah, no, why they molt upside down.

732
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,240
Like what is like?

733
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,600
It's probably easier just to slide out of it, isn't it?

734
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,800
If you're upside down.

735
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:48,640
I think so.

736
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:49,160
Gravity.

737
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:49,960
Sure.

738
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,560
They must have sussed out by now that gravity is going

739
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,680
to help them slide out.

740
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,320
So why not I'm upside down and let gravity help you?

741
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,960
Yep, gravity just pulls right out.

742
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,680
No.

743
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:03,680
Heck yeah.

744
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:04,840
How fun.

745
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:05,840
No, I agree.

746
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,880
I don't know how mantises hang upside down to molt.

747
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:10,680
Yeah, yeah.

748
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:11,840
Not all of them?

749
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:12,600
No.

750
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,320
Some actually can molt on the floor like cockroaches.

751
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:17,880
So there you go.

752
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:18,920
Oh, wow.

753
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,280
That's just an interesting fact.

754
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:23,280
Yeah, no, I love it.

755
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,760
I appreciate all the facts.

756
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,840
Like I think that's fascinating.

757
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,120
I didn't actually realize that there were species that

758
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,000
didn't molt upside down like that.

759
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,120
So that's incredible.

760
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,800
Not many, but there are some.

761
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,520
Sure.

762
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,680
Because I know tarantulas, they molt upside down,

763
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,600
but they pretty much will lay out

764
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,880
like a little molting mat of webbing,

765
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,360
and then they lay on their back.

766
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,080
So they're not actually hanging upside down from anything.

767
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,040
They just kind of lay on their back.

768
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,480
And all tarantulas do it the exact same way.

769
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,400
So it's terrifying.

770
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,040
It is.

771
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,080
It really is terrifying.

772
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,640
It's a part, especially if it's the most

773
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,560
big open, it's like this crazy thing.

774
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:06,560
And I can't look.

775
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:07,560
They twist.

776
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,560
It's like spiders.

777
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,560
Like, yeah, I know.

778
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,160
I think about tarantulas.

779
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,640
It's terrifying to watch a tarantula molt.

780
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,560
It's one of the most scary things ever.

781
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,240
Well, and it's pretty terrifying for keepers, too,

782
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,880
because that's when, if you're going to lose a tarantula,

783
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,120
you're probably going to lose it during a molt.

784
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,880
That's their most vulnerable time.

785
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,280
It's tricky.

786
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,760
I mean, it's really hard for them.

787
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,800
Plus, it's kind of a telltale.

788
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,960
Like, if your husbandry is on point

789
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,880
and you're doing really great, then your tarantula

790
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,480
is probably going to molt really well.

791
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,680
But if you're not doing very well with that husbandry,

792
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,840
say your tarantula's health really isn't so great,

793
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,600
then you're going to find out during the molt

794
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,360
because they'll get stuck or that they won't

795
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,000
molt completely or properly.

796
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,600
So yeah, it is really, really scary for a whole lot

797
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,880
of different reasons.

798
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,600
But I can imagine.

799
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,720
That's another beauty of the, yes, I think both girlies,

800
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,720
you don't have to worry about that.

801
00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:11,800
No, not at all.

802
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,840
Yeah, not at all.

803
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:13,360
I mean.

804
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:18,040
You know, it's as if you've got some humidity, 50%, 60%,

805
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:18,840
they're quite happy.

806
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,200
I mean, the lift, I have humidity as well,

807
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,160
but 50%, 60%, they're absolutely fine.

808
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,400
Yeah, no.

809
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:28,400
My little...

810
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,600
In most countries, I mean, it doesn't get 50 to 60 here.

811
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,120
No.

812
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,720
In an old house, but in most countries,

813
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,960
it sort of does, so they're pretty good pets for that.

814
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,360
You don't really have to give them anything.

815
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,080
You don't need a tremendous amount of heat either.

816
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,400
They're not like, oh, we need 40 degrees now, now.

817
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,240
They're quite happy.

818
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:54,320
That's centigrade, by the way.

819
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,520
Just realize they're right.

820
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,520
No worries.

821
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:57,520
No worries.

822
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,680
98, isn't it?

823
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:02,680
Yeah.

824
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,560
They're pretty good for that.

825
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,080
And I like that.

826
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,400
I've got them over there near the window,

827
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:13,000
so it must drop to about 16 degrees in the nighttime.

828
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,760
And they're quite happy.

829
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,760
You know, they go a bit slower, but they don't die.

830
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,880
So, I mean, they are from Africa, and people think,

831
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,480
oh, Africa, that's really hot.

832
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:26,800
Not everywhere, it's not.

833
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:33,040
And at night, it's at night, it gets really, really cold.

834
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,920
So, I like that.

835
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,160
I think it's easy to kind of assume how things would be

836
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,360
in Africa, but one thing that I think people forget to realize

837
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,120
about Africa is that it's such a large continent.

838
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,760
There are so many different kind of climates

839
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,960
all throughout Africa.

840
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,640
Like, you've got a bit of tropical rainforest.

841
00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:01,080
There's the Sahara Desert, which that's where the heat is

842
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,600
going to be, is in that the Sahara Desert there,

843
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:09,440
and like over by Morocco and Egypt and these regions.

844
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,600
I mean, they're just, these are really, really hot places.

845
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,440
But you go a bit south, you know,

846
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,440
you get a little further south than the tropical rainforest

847
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:17,840
area.

848
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,760
So, you're traveling to the grasslands of the Serengeti,

849
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,680
where, I mean, it's probably going to be about 70, 80

850
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:30,800
degrees, which is not in Fahrenheit, like, what is it?

851
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,280
26 degrees?

852
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,640
You know.

853
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,920
24 to 27 degrees.

854
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,400
I mean, I have to plot all the countries in Africa

855
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,040
because of all the mantis.

856
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:49,240
So, it's, what I do is generally,

857
00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:52,400
well, I get a new species.

858
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:53,200
Sure.

859
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,400
Whatever it is, it can be a satin ghost

860
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,120
with mantis or whatever.

861
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,760
I will check daily for several weeks

862
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,840
what the temperature is in that country at the time.

863
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,000
And you get the temperature to see everything.

864
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:13,400
And then you can work out an average temperature,

865
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,480
what they're going to have during the day

866
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,720
and what they probably need during the night.

867
00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:20,360
And it's something, you've got to remember in Africa,

868
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,640
we've got family in Durban.

869
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,520
Oh, yeah.

870
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:25,840
It snows there.

871
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:26,560
It snows.

872
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:27,440
Yeah.

873
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:32,280
My wife's a angola, which is bloody hot all the time.

874
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:33,840
And you've got a coca-cola next door,

875
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,600
which is pretty much just a jungle.

876
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,040
So, you know, it's like.

877
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:44,040
So many different climates all throughout that, you know,

878
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,320
all throughout that region.

879
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,880
So it's, I feel like.

880
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,480
It's a hot place, yeah.

881
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,280
Yeah, you're doing a huge disservice to Africa

882
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,520
if you're just assuming that it's hot everywhere

883
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,880
because, you know, it's not.

884
00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:58,640
Oh, it's not.

885
00:47:58,640 --> 00:47:59,280
Bloody not.

886
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,320
And you probably know because the way you live,

887
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,960
deserts get bloody cold at night.

888
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,240
Yes, they do.

889
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:08,600
You know, ridiculously hot during the day,

890
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,000
ridiculously cold at night.

891
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,360
If you're a bug and you live there, you are hardy.

892
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,160
You can put up with some crap.

893
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:18,600
You can put up with some stuff.

894
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,120
Oh, yeah, for real.

895
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,520
That's the sort of book you want to be keeping

896
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,560
if you're new to the hobby.

897
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:33,520
You don't want something that needs exactly 26.2 degrees.

898
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,720
You want something that you can go,

899
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:37,120
ah, I should write in that tent.

900
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,720
It'll be fine.

901
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:39,600
Yeah.

902
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:40,720
I'm not going to kill it.

903
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,040
It's going to be fine.

904
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:42,840
It's going to be happy.

905
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:43,640
I'm not going to kill it.

906
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,240
It's going to be healthy.

907
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:45,840
That's great.

908
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,760
That's the sort of book you want to assassinate bugs

909
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:52,600
at fantastic pets if you're coming into the hobby as well.

910
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:53,920
I think so, too.

911
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:58,320
I think they're really great starter inverts for somebody

912
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:02,560
who's interested in keeping those invertebrates or just

913
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,600
getting interested in entomology, possibly.

914
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,600
Assassin bugs are freaking awesome for that.

915
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,640
Because just like you said, they are hardy.

916
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,280
They come from all over the world,

917
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,400
which means they're not going to have those super specific

918
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,000
husbandry requirements like some tarantulas do,

919
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,920
or some mantises do.

920
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,560
I know the orchid mantis is very, very fragile.

921
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:32,320
And they absolutely have to have 70% to 80% humidity

922
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,800
at all times.

923
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:35,760
I think I had one.

924
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,200
And I do remember that anywhere below 75 degrees

925
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:44,000
was actually bad for this poor mantis.

926
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,440
70 to 75 degrees was OK, but anything less than that

927
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,160
was almost death sentence.

928
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,280
So just have them slow.

929
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:54,440
They get like bargic.

930
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,440
Yeah.

931
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,160
Humidity, you don't need it that high.

932
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,000
You do for when they're molten.

933
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:01,960
It's a good idea.

934
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:02,720
Oh, sure.

935
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:04,520
High humidity all the time.

936
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,400
So you've got this situation where you've

937
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,000
got to monitor your head all the time to make sure

938
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:11,680
its environment is correct.

939
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,560
Whereas I was saying, assassin books, not really.

940
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:15,440
They're not like that.

941
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,000
Yeah, they're not like that at all.

942
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,520
So I just water the plants down again.

943
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:21,480
That's it.

944
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,080
Get it quick.

945
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,560
Yeah.

946
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,520
I'll trick it, and that's it.

947
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,720
Just watch them.

948
00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:29,760
Yeah, absolutely.

949
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:35,880
I mean, that's not to say that I wouldn't say that they're

950
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,440
a pet that you could neglect.

951
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,560
And that would be fine, because I mean,

952
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,160
I don't think you should neglect any of your pets.

953
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,120
But they're not one that's going to be, like,

954
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:50,240
if you accidentally forget to water them on Saturdays, which

955
00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:51,760
you usually do or whatever.

956
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,800
Like, they're not going to die from that.

957
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,480
So yeah, they're really great.

958
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:58,440
They're very hardy.

959
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,400
They are really great eaters.

960
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:03,920
They're a ton of fun to watch.

961
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,720
They're beneficial to the environment.

962
00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:10,120
And I just love them.

963
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,040
I think they are some of the coolest ones.

964
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,240
I want to get so many more species of them,

965
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:17,000
because they are fantastic creatures.

966
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,320
And yeah, so I guess that's all I got on assassin bugs.

967
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:22,880
Do you have anything more?

968
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,080
How many species of assassin bugs do you actually have in

969
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:25,560
the marine?

970
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,200
I don't like that in the hobby.

971
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:32,280
In the hobby, I would say two or three, actually.

972
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:33,280
Yeah.

973
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,280
Yeah.

974
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:35,280
Yeah.

975
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,760
I'm not really sure that there's more than, like,

976
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:44,000
the two-spotted, the pteranoptus, or the horidus.

977
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,320
And I mean, I'm sure there's probably some native species

978
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:51,200
to hear to the states that people probably keep.

979
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,560
But that's all I know of.

980
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,600
I might have to look around and see

981
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,600
if I can't find, like, more different species

982
00:51:58,600 --> 00:51:59,840
that people keep.

983
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:04,600
But that's why I'm saying they're so underrated,

984
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,240
because they're just really, really cool.

985
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:12,040
And we should be keeping a lot more of them, for sure.

986
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,160
Well, over the years, we have, like, the two or three species.

987
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:16,400
You've got the white spots.

988
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:17,640
You've got the yellow spots.

989
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:18,960
And you've got the red ones.

990
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:25,920
And that is sort of it, as far as assassin bugs are concerned,

991
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:27,600
for availability.

992
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:28,240
Yeah.

993
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:30,800
And Africa is a big place.

994
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,920
It's got quite a few different assassin bugs.

995
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:35,720
I'm going to guess that they probably

996
00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:39,840
have the majority of species that probably live in Africa.

997
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:46,720
I think Africa and Asia and probably South America,

998
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:49,320
top end of South America, South and Central,

999
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,120
is where the really cool ones are,

1000
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,800
that you want to keep as a pet.

1001
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,240
I mean, you don't have to have loads of different colors

1002
00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:58,920
to keep as a pet.

1003
00:52:58,920 --> 00:52:59,680
Right.

1004
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,520
You just have to be cool.

1005
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:03,920
That's the thing, isn't it?

1006
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,200
You don't want to be just cool.

1007
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,000
I mean, it's a cool looking.

1008
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,440
I think it's cool like hunting and stuff.

1009
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:16,200
So it's just a black thing.

1010
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:20,320
But as long as it's weird or something, it goes for it.

1011
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,080
I love how social they are.

1012
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,280
I really love watching them pick on each other

1013
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,320
and steal food from one another.

1014
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,680
I mean, I think that's the funnest thing about them.

1015
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,760
They are super, super cool and social.

1016
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,680
And just for me, that's what does it.

1017
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,200
I love that they're colorful.

1018
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,160
And it is really fun to watch them eat.

1019
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,400
But that social aspect is where it's at.

1020
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,000
I think very much so.

1021
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,800
Very much so.

1022
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,440
The question I always get asked, people

1023
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,440
send me a message on where at the Facebook or where.

1024
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,160
I don't look at it.

1025
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,560
Does this mantis live with other mantis?

1026
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,560
I get that question so many times.

1027
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,400
I have to say, no.

1028
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:02,280
OK, thanks.

1029
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:02,760
That's it.

1030
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:04,600
They don't buy a mantis.

1031
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,480
Right, that sucks.

1032
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:07,680
It does suck.

1033
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,520
Yeah, because people are used to keeping things

1034
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,800
like I support, we've got hundreds of them.

1035
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,360
And hundreds of thousands of them.

1036
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,360
And they're like, oh, I think I'll get into another in those.

1037
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,240
And they don't find us dumb like each other.

1038
00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:26,360
And they'll ask about mantis, but they never ever go.

1039
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,160
You've got assassin bugs.

1040
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,160
And they're so cool.

1041
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:31,160
Man, there's so many.

1042
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,160
That's the question.

1043
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,240
Just so frustrating how underrated they really are.

1044
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:40,640
I mean, they're so much cooler because of that social thing.

1045
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,120
And I mean, nothing against mantis.

1046
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:44,400
I love mantises.

1047
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,400
I love my tarantulas.

1048
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,640
But they're not playing with one another.

1049
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,400
They're not picking on each other and stuff.

1050
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:51,840
We have to keep them separated.

1051
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,840
Otherwise, you're going to have one big fat one.

1052
00:54:58,840 --> 00:54:59,840
Absolutely.

1053
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,840
Yeah, I've seen that in the last week.

1054
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,840
Oh, no.

1055
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,000
I got one shot by another one.

1056
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,560
But not when it was breeding.

1057
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:10,560
Well, it's been out.

1058
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,560
That's the first time ever.

1059
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:13,560
Oh, jeez.

1060
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,760
So, oh, well.

1061
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,120
I can imagine.

1062
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,560
But it's got a lot of things.

1063
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,560
But it's asking books.

1064
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:21,880
You know, it's fine.

1065
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:23,880
I've got to ask.

1066
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,880
I've got a brand new room.

1067
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,880
Like taking pictures of the insects.

1068
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:30,880
So.

1069
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:31,880
Oh, cool.

1070
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:33,880
And it does professional stuff.

1071
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,880
So what I'm going to do next time is say,

1072
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:37,880
oh, about taking some photographs of the sassing books.

1073
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,880
I think I can plaster and spam them all over Facebook

1074
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,880
and Instagram and everywhere.

1075
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:47,080
Hopefully, bump it up a little bit and see if you

1076
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,880
get more people into them because they are super cute.

1077
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:50,880
Yeah.

1078
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:51,880
They're really cool.

1079
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:52,880
Absolutely.

1080
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:57,880
I don't know about America, but here they are cheap.

1081
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:58,880
Oh, yeah.

1082
00:55:58,880 --> 00:55:59,880
No.

1083
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:04,880
Here in the States, I got my three for about $12.

1084
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:09,880
So I got $12 and I got three, which is a really good start.

1085
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,880
You know, kind of a good starting point.

1086
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,880
A lot of breeders, like the more you buy, the cheaper

1087
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:16,880
they're going to be.

1088
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,840
So here in the States, I mean, you kind of got to go through

1089
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:20,840
breeders.

1090
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:21,840
I'm not sure.

1091
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:26,840
I haven't seen assassin bugs being offered on like some of the

1092
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,840
websites that we can go to for, for like tarantulas or other

1093
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,840
inverts, like micro wilderness or bugs in cyberspace.

1094
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,840
I haven't actually seen assassin bugs being offered on those

1095
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:37,840
sites.

1096
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:39,840
We saw them.

1097
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:40,840
Yeah.

1098
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,840
So I mean, the UK, you guys always beat us on all kinds of stuff.

1099
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,840
So what are you going to do?

1100
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,840
Well, books, the books, I think it's just kind of easier for us

1101
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,840
to sell things than it is for you.

1102
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:55,840
I think so too.

1103
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,840
I mean, inverts, inverts don't get covered by any laws here.

1104
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:00,840
Right.

1105
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:01,840
Right.

1106
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:02,840
Right.

1107
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,840
Well, inverts just life food does.

1108
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,840
So if you sell life crickets, it's a different situation.

1109
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:10,840
Some of these guys just like, yeah, sure.

1110
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,840
We don't care.

1111
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:13,840
Yeah, right.

1112
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,840
Basically, I mean,

1113
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,840
the state is huge.

1114
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:23,840
It's like 3000 miles worth of lands, you know, that, that if

1115
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,840
you're selling something on a website or something like you

1116
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,840
have to consider that shipping and everything like that.

1117
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,840
Whereas in the UK, you know, you guys are a little closer

1118
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:33,840
together.

1119
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:37,840
So it probably is a lot easier to, to, to sell and buy and sell

1120
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:38,840
there.

1121
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:44,840
So yeah, it's, I think that's probably the biggest factor in

1122
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,840
that.

1123
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:46,840
Possibly.

1124
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:51,840
I think sometimes you're like the post, the post will cost

1125
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:52,840
in the US.

1126
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,840
Yeah, no, it costs quite a bit more.

1127
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:56,840
Yeah.

1128
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,840
I know it's a friend of mine, got some item box.

1129
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:05,840
I saw, I saw physically saw on the unboxing on the

1130
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,840
box, $28.

1131
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:10,840
Yeah.

1132
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:14,840
Yeah.

1133
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:15,840
Yeah.

1134
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,840
It's a thing.

1135
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,840
It's really a thing.

1136
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:23,840
It's really ridiculous.

1137
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,840
Like eight.

1138
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:30,840
If I sense something today, the eight pounds, I could guarantee

1139
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,840
that it'd be in somebody's, you know, at the other person's

1140
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,840
house before one o'clock in the afternoon.

1141
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,840
That's a game.

1142
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:40,840
But that's right.

1143
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:41,840
So I just said it.

1144
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,840
So it's much easier if I, if I'm sending advances or assassin

1145
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,840
books are quite positive.

1146
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,840
Providing a pack to monkey.

1147
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Yeah.

1148
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,840
I'm going to arrive alive in less than 24 hours.

1149
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,840
The guys have been built in that box.

1150
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:58,840
Yeah.

1151
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,840
It's such a big difference.

1152
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:01,840
Yeah.

1153
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:06,840
Such a, such a difference here because it's, we can't do that.

1154
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:11,840
But it's, it's a massive, massive, you've got to fly stuff

1155
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:12,840
there.

1156
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:13,840
You know, yeah.

1157
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:17,840
There's no, there's no creating a back and forth back and

1158
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:18,840
driving.

1159
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:19,840
Right.

1160
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,840
You know, the next day I was just jumping the back.

1161
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:26,840
But here we can, even if it was a stop on top of them, you

1162
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,840
can, you can still get it the same day.

1163
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:29,840
Yeah.

1164
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:31,840
It's a little bit there.

1165
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,840
So it's, it's a considerable difference between your postal

1166
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:36,840
services.

1167
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:37,840
Yeah.

1168
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:38,840
Absolutely.

1169
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:44,840
What makes it difficult in the USA to promote the whole

1170
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:46,840
business at home?

1171
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,840
I agree.

1172
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,840
But we do, we do have some really great expos that, you

1173
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,840
know, if you, if you go to the expos and stuff guaranteed,

1174
00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:01,840
you're going to find inverts and, you know, species that are

1175
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:06,840
really relatively uncommon, like, so that's always kind of a

1176
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:07,840
bonus.

1177
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,840
And then also when you buy it, you, you can take it home that

1178
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:11,840
day.

1179
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,840
So that's, that's kind of a cool thing.

1180
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:18,840
But yeah, I think it's time for our shameless plug.

1181
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:20,840
It's the end of our, end of our hours.

1182
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,840
So Simon, what do you got coming up this week?

1183
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:24,840
What do you think?

1184
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,840
These guys.

1185
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:27,840
Yeah.

1186
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,840
Another couple.

1187
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,840
So no more than that.

1188
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:37,840
I should have some more mantis for sale.

1189
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:38,840
Very short.

1190
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:39,840
Awesome.

1191
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,840
I got some sale now, but I should have more species for sale

1192
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:43,840
soon.

1193
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:44,840
Okay.

1194
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,840
Assessing books for sale soon.

1195
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:49,840
So I'm just excited.

1196
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:51,840
And then they'll be available as well.

1197
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,840
Lots of lots of stuff.

1198
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,840
So I'm just going to go ahead and get some of the stuff.

1199
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,840
I'm going to be open up to the website shortly.

1200
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,840
So I will plug that and get to the point.

1201
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,840
I will be putting that out a lot.

1202
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:05,840
Wonderful.

1203
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:09,840
Hopefully if my neck and my back behaves this week, I should be

1204
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:11,840
squeezing a couple of videos.

1205
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:12,840
Good.

1206
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:13,840
Good.

1207
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,840
I collected my channel big time for the last two weeks because

1208
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:17,840
I've been suffering.

1209
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,840
So yeah, I'm going to get back to the horse and I'm going to

1210
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:21,840
get back to the horse.

1211
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,840
And then I'm going to get back to the horse.

1212
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,840
And do some more videos, I think, very soon.

1213
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,840
And of course, Leah, your wonderful channel.

1214
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,840
What are you doing on your channel?

1215
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:32,840
Oh, yeah.

1216
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,840
Actually, this week I'm going to be doing a video where I've got,

1217
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:40,840
I've actually got 10 tarantulas that need rehoused.

1218
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,840
So I'm going to, I'm probably going to do five in one video and

1219
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:46,840
then five in the next video.

1220
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,840
So it's not going to be a species spotlight.

1221
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,840
I'm just going to do like a mass load.

1222
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:53,840
Of tarantulas getting into new homes.

1223
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:55,840
So be looking out for that.

1224
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,840
And then the other thing I've got, I've got babies.

1225
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,840
I've got little baby fit a piss audux.

1226
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:05,840
That I'm trying to pawn off on everybody I can possibly think of.

1227
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,840
They really treat their, I mean, they're cute.

1228
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:09,840
I love them.

1229
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,840
But I, I don't want this many because they're,

1230
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:14,840
it's hard to feed so many.

1231
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:16,840
But yeah, so there's that.

1232
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:21,840
Otherwise.

1233
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:22,840
Yeah.

1234
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:23,840
Tarantula.

1235
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,840
Check out inverted cast.

1236
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,840
There's a new arachnophobia movie that's coming out.

1237
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:31,840
Probably within the next couple of years.

1238
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:35,840
And it looks like they used actual species of like tarantulas and

1239
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:36,840
spiders.

1240
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,840
Kind of like what they did and ate like it freaks.

1241
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:40,840
So that's kind of,

1242
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,840
that's going to be fascinating and interesting.

1243
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,840
So I'm going to be doing a video where I'm going to be doing

1244
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,840
an interesting, so I'm looking forward to seeing that.

1245
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,840
Otherwise that's all I got.

1246
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,840
Yeah.

1247
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,840
So on a list of movies never to see.

1248
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,840
Well, you would be surprised.

1249
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:04,840
Eight Legged Freaks is actually a really fun movie.

1250
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,840
It's not, not really scary.

1251
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:07,840
It's just funny.

1252
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:09,840
Yeah.

1253
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,840
I actually bought the DVD for that.

1254
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:13,840
It's a great movie.

1255
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:14,840
I love it.

1256
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,840
I mean, it's funny.

1257
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,840
But yeah, it's, yeah.

1258
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:20,840
Yeah.

1259
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:23,840
I think the only thing I remember is that all of the spiders come

1260
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:24,840
out of that mouth.

1261
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:26,840
I can't understand that.

1262
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:28,840
I just find it.

1263
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:30,840
That just, yeah.

1264
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:31,840
Yeah.

1265
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:33,840
It's kind of kooky.

1266
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:34,840
I don't know.

1267
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,840
I don't know about all that.

1268
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:38,840
But yeah.

1269
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:39,840
But yeah.

1270
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,840
If you're into that sort of thing.

1271
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,840
I'm not sure.

1272
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:46,840
Absolutely.

1273
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,840
Spider rehabs is because.

1274
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:50,840
Yes.

1275
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:52,840
I was, I was a gym.

1276
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,840
We got two new spiders this week.

1277
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:56,840
Oh, how fun.

1278
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,840
So please don't ask me what they are.

1279
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,840
I don't know.

1280
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:02,840
Because I'll have to ask Lily.

1281
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:04,840
It's, it's the, the, I don't know.

1282
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:05,840
It keeps us fine.

1283
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:06,840
Yeah.

1284
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,840
She got two new ones this week.

1285
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,840
Oh, wonderful.

1286
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:12,840
I think it's a.

1287
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:14,840
Bamba or Rita.

1288
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:16,840
Bamba Rita.

1289
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:17,840
Oh, cool.

1290
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:19,840
The Brazilian redhead.

1291
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,840
I believe it's with her.

1292
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:22,840
Yeah.

1293
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:23,840
Something like that.

1294
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,840
And it was a dwarf tarantula.

1295
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:27,840
And she's telling me what they are.

1296
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:29,840
Oh, a vagans.

1297
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:31,840
Oh, little Carl Vagans.

1298
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,840
The Mexican red brunt.

1299
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:34,840
Awesome.

1300
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,840
That's the one.

1301
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:37,840
Yeah.

1302
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,840
How cool.

1303
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:40,840
How fun.

1304
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:42,840
I'm, well, congratulations.

1305
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:44,840
That's fantastic.

1306
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:45,840
Love it.

1307
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:47,840
It was actually presents from.

1308
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:48,840
From.

1309
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,840
The bikes or Sharon.

1310
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,840
Oh, she should.

1311
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,840
She went to a show last weekend and she,

1312
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:57,840
she brought us these fires for Lil.

1313
01:04:57,840 --> 01:04:58,840
So.

1314
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:00,840
Oh, that's pretty cool of her.

1315
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,840
Some banana branches.

1316
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:04,840
Oh, cool.

1317
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,840
So I got it.

1318
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,840
You're adding.

1319
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,840
To the, the room as it were this week.

1320
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:13,840
Yeah.

1321
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,840
These are pets.

1322
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:17,840
I mean, it's not like stock.

1323
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,840
I mean, I can tell you got stock.

1324
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:20,840
Yeah.

1325
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,840
But yeah, it's a bit dull, but these are pets.

1326
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,840
So I got an hour of which is, and she got couple of spiders.

1327
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:28,840
So we're going to do some re-outs because.

1328
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:30,840
A lot of the spiders have melted now.

1329
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:33,840
So we want to get into something more permanent.

1330
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:34,840
Okay.

1331
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:36,840
So, yeah, we're watching definitely,

1332
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:38,840
definitely watching your rehousing.

1333
01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:40,840
I will be watching for that.

1334
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:41,840
Absolutely.

1335
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,840
Well, in the meantime, thank you so much everybody for,

1336
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,840
for checking out inverted cast and joining us for this wonderful

1337
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:50,840
talk about assassin bugs.

1338
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:52,840
Get out there, check out some assassin bugs.

1339
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:55,840
Hopefully we can kind of boost them in the hobby because.

1340
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,840
They're just too underrated for as cool as a pet.

1341
01:05:58,840 --> 01:05:59,840
They are.

1342
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,840
But again, thank you everybody.

1343
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:04,840
I absolutely love you.

1344
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:06,840
Don't forget to love your inverts.

1345
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:08,840
We will see you next time.

1346
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:33,840
See ya.