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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James is there really wallabies in beaconsfield? last summer I found a cane toad but pressume it was just a pet thrown out.. as I havnt found any since.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Apparently so...there were photos of some 'wild' ones taken from the train station platform while they were foraging just within view. I suspect there would be quite a lot also over the Berks area as one or two may have gone missing from Whipsnade in the past Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea there are wallabies and they do quite well i think as it is a reasonably similar habitat to their own. only found it out myself the other week. sure is an interesting addition to UK wildlife. There is an area of established tree frogs somewhere around london
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that'd be the Eoropean green I'm guessing Hyla arborea They've been around for quite a while now Wink
I just had to drown a colony of Pharoah Ants Monomorium pharaonis that found their way into the shop in some non-fumigated wood! I felt really guilty because the humble ant is one of my favourite insects! Oh, well, it was either them or the shop!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HerpCrazy!!! wrote:
that'd be the Eoropean green I'm guessing Hyla arborea They've been around for quite a while now Wink
I just had to drown a colony of Pharoah Ants Monomorium pharaonis that found their way into the shop in some non-fumigated wood! I felt really guilty because the humble ant is one of my favourite insects! Oh, well, it was either them or the shop!


DUDE! what a waiste! your frogs would have loved those Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there are plenty of green lizards down by hengistbury head, just loads and loads of them running around on the dunes,
xenopus toads on the isle of wight,
midwife toads in newdigate,
apine newts round newdigate as well,
hyla arborea in the new forest
wall lizards on farnham castle,
'wild boar' in suffolk- i think somewhere around there?
terrapins, everywhere,
bullfrogs in staines,
marsh frogs at barnes WWT
Segestria florentina a veomous funnel web in the south east and london
Amazonian Fresh Water Jellyfish, Craspedactusa sowerbii-kent sewage works
harlequin lady birds -where?
green anoles and whites treefrogs have escaped on very rare occasion at eden.
well thats all i can get at the mo. off the top of my head.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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DUDE! what a waiste! your frogs would have loved those Shocked


They did eat a few but I had to destroy the colony. If they took over the shop it'd be a real pain in the ass!!! I'd have to 'free range' a stack load of Hemidactylus or summat Wink

Was thinking of culturing leaf cutters though. What do you think MJ?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

are ant cultures quite pricey? i heard they are quite hard to establish? it took us two goes at work 2 get them right
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can obtain cultures for around £80 so I don't think its too bad and the guy I'll get them from supplies a sort of starter of some kind to get them going. Have seen one of his huge all glass tube setups with thousands of the buggers in. Just wondering whether they would make a good food for any herps. (except the massive soldiers of course Wink )
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow I've always wanted an Ant Farm!

What species are available?
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