They’re ugly looking things with the noise output of frogs or crickets. They get quite big. We’ve seen them around 1.5 inches
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Thanks Ellie I have found a company in the UK that sells the Stanfield heat mats so emailed them for prices etc.There is one made by farm innovations I think. It is very similar with the hard plastic cover. I believe it was designed for lambs?? I have the small one that I bought from one of our farm suppliers. It’s been well used by Toretto when he was indoors and now by Pickles..I run it on an inkbird thermostat.. GOOD LUCK!
They’re ugly looking things with the noise output of frogs or crickets. They get quite big. We’ve seen them around 1.5 inches
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Oh... Locusts ... it’s amazing what you don’t know) . I had never heard Cicada until you said that, but when I googled to get you a locust picture, it’s everywhere.. lol - and apparently the same thing
As kids, we would play with the “sheds”... I ran across one just a couple days ago on a fence post..
I thought you knew what they were/are.
But here we call your “locusts” grasshoppers
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Same with mine when they walk over some sow thistleI am happy they were not fire ants. Opo has come across a fire ant colony. I have never seen a tortoise move so fast.
Cicadas are annoying, when we went to Rome a few years ago they were everywhere. The night we got back home I could still hear their sound in my head as I tried to get to sleep.And now I see that your grasshopper locusts are the proper insect for the name Texas slang gets me every time... Google says that the term “locust” is commonly misused here for the cicadas... [emoji12]. I did see that Texas is experiencing the 17year thing too . I’ve been educated !
He's just adorable! I love those ears.
That looks like it was a lot of fun.A paddle trip this morning in the Adirondacks with my father, who'll be 83 this year.
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I love that we still get out and explore the world.
Jamie
Look into radiant heat panels instead. They use less electricity and you can mount them on a side wall. Better than bottom heat. Here's what they look like:I wish we could get Kane mats here.
I found one place but they only had old stock without the thermostats and way too big for what I wanted, but there aren't any other stockists left in the UK now.
I'll have to start searching again for something similar before the temps drop.
A paddle trip this morning in the Adirondacks with my father, who'll be 83 this year.
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I love that we still get out and explore the world.
Jamie
Ohio too but I've not seen fire ants. I once saw one of the larger black ants get ahold of one of the anoles in Florida. I tried my best to try and help the anole but couldn't.Not just Florida. I know South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and even some of West TN has the.
Several. The first one being melting aluminum. Watching ants being smoked in the video was fun too. Sorry ants but payback is heck.There has to be a science project in there, somewhere...
Those names are misused in Ohio too. We get cicadas every year. I haven't seen the actual locusts for many years. I hope we're not due for that 17 year cycle. I haven't seen many grasshoppers for several years.And now I see that your grasshopper locusts are the proper insect for the name Texas slang gets me every time... Google says that the term “locust” is commonly misused here for the cicadas... [emoji12]. I did see that Texas is experiencing the 17year thing too . I’ve been educated !
Hehehe...hahaha...I actually wondered though if a tortoise could be litter trained to their spot.Marge likes to poop in her bed time cave. It’s fun for her but not for me, so I put a barrier over the front of the cave and remove it at her bed time. Today she decided to climb to the top of her cave and push down the barrier. She must have been watching me push it aside from the top. “Clever girl” (Jurassic park quote)
Well at the moment my efforts have been unsuccessful. Marge: 1 Ben: 0Hehehe...hahaha...I actually wondered though if a tortoise could be litter trained to their spot.