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Hymenopus coronatus
Anthia sexmaculata
Anthia thoracica RSA
Dynastes hercules
Nephila fenestrata
Peucetia lucasi
unboxing

[@dustinjames6662]

Hey Petko, was super excited to see that hercules grub :D I've heard in Europe it is relatively easy to get 'flake soil' which is what I've been told is the best to rear detritus-feeding beetles on. They are also super stressed from handling as unlike some other species they aren't developed to crawl around on their backs. I'm sure you know all of this but I thought it might be nice for others to know. Can't wait to see the progress-- it would be a dream to have these in the US but unfortunately it's super illegal. We will live vicariously through you!

[@asylumental]

I didn't realize Hercules beetles were illegal... I'll have to look into it for Canada, we might be cold enough for it to be legal. Problem with beetles is the short life span, lol... so long in grub form, then so short as the actualy beetle morph. They were one of my first interests in entomology though, which lead to everything else haha.

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

I know,so stupid,they wouldn’t become a pest anyways,if anything they’re beneficial!

[@MantisKungfu]

This is supposed to be a good bug

[@leafwitheyes2473]

@@asylumental but then again, dubias can’t live in the cold temps of Canada and they are still illegal

[@asylumental]

@@leafwitheyes2473 true but jumping spiders I've managed to import... roaches have colonies which make them more of a problem where the beetles are solitary... but Canada is very strict when it comes to potentially invasive critters

[@thevieadanac6115]

12:39 wow the mantis is so friendly! Immediately it’s like “lift me up!”

[@NikosDabYT123]

I've been so excited for this since I saw the Instagram post, finally I can watch it :)

[@binkyboo4793]

The mantis cleaning it's toes was SO cute! 😍

[@PhillyJuggalo]

Damn those Orchid Mantises were amazing! I loved their colors, I honestly didn’t even know that there were ones like that. Now if only it was possible to have an enclosure with those Vampire Crabs and the Orchid Mantises, that would be a stunning and very colorful enclosure, especially if you were able to create one were the crabs were out of the water a bit more. Namaste Petko

[@cosmic.synergy]

COMPLETELY STARTED GEEKING OUT AT THE ORCHID MANTIS! I CAN'T WAIT TILL IT GETS BIGGER! ALSO LOVING THE GREEN SPOODER! I ALSO CAN'T WAIT FOR THE HERCULES BEETLE TO GROW!! AAAAAAHHHHHH SUCH AN AWESOME UNBOXING! YES ALL CAPS BECAUSE YAY!!!!!

[@ThomasTheArachnerd]

Wow that Green Lynx looks so different. Green Lynxs in Malaysia have a greenish yellow to brown colour. Smol story: I’ve seen a mother in one of my plants, guarding her egg sac for 2 weeks. After they hatched, I legit witnessed a massive jumping spider pounce onto the mother, killing her. The babies freaked out and jumped onto other leaves. Circle of life right there

[@muhdshahputranasrialong3073]

Wow this mantis Asia in jangle🙂

[@melaniezagata4402]

Petko the orchid mantis are so beautiful. And the spiders are awesome!

[@mbdieter7308]

I had a mini heart attack when the hungry orchid mantis went after the other mantis and continued to eye the other as lunch.

[@pauliinavirtanen3769]

It is so nice to see your excitement! Your videos are so fascinating

[@aphiliarachno]

The little mantids are so cute. 😊 I also like that green spider pretty much. Very nice that all new additions arrived healthily. Have aot of fun with all of them!

[@TenkosSSJ]

It can be tricky to breed two orchids that are at the same stage. Make sure to keep the male in slightly colder conditions and keep the female in very warm setup so that she grows quicker since she has more molt stages + extra few weeks once she is ready to breed. On average the male lives for 3 months after final molt, but I had one that lived for 6 months so it's pretty random. Females can live for over a year once they get their wings so you don't need to worry about them passing first.

[@epiphadipity]

omg YESSSSSSS unboxings are the best videos ever!!! what a great way to start my day~ the mantis booty was so hyped HAHHA

[@brianbatie6650]

Yes, it is a Nephila Pilpes. Hope you give it a large space because they build large gold color webs, up to a meter across, with frame web "cables" up to 10 meters long. The male, however seems a bit large for a male, and looks different, males are usually reddish-brown.

[@MrDLYouTube]

Can't wait to follow the progress of the Orchid Mantises! Wow so beautiful!

[@lauraashley4644]

Omg Petko!!! Just seeing your excited smile and giggles was enough for me to instant like!!! It makes us so happy to see you excited :3

[@monicablaze3430]

Amazing, beautiful, fascinating, incredible…..thank you ❤️

[@callmekeir4858]

It is SO strange to me, I'm terrified of spiders, but I love your videos. I've been a long time watcher and I love your energy and your teachings. And It's so fun to see you get excited about these creatures. I hope you keep it up! Much love from Canada!

[@Hayley0412]

Petko, I got to see the little boy inside you, you were so excited by these beautiful animals, I bet you had a magnifying glass finding insects and spiders! It is so enchanting to find someone so excited about insects! I can’t wait to see all the little ‘buggers’ being set up in their new rooms! 🦎🦖🐢🐍🕷🕸

[@gzuspeterson4748]

Have you ever kept the beetles that pray on frogs? Epomis is the name I believe.

[@Shooshoobella7]

Eeeeeek! I LOVE Orchid Mantids!! They are so beautiful and cute and I can't wait to see more videos about them. The new beetle and spider editions are pretty cool too and will be super interesting to watch in their new enclosures.

[@Itsachapel]

You’ve really inspired me to start my own collection, which my roommates hate but I’m happy with 🤗

[@wolfe1970]

I have 3 Ghost Matids, they are such cool and interesting insects, Orchid is on my next list

[@BriceLijewski]

Just read up a little on the Orchid mantids. It seems that youll have to keep the male colder than the female because he will mature faster than her, and will possibly die before she is ready. He is mature at only 2.5 cm and she is mature at 6-7 cm. Here is an exerpt from the atricle i was reading. "The ideal temperature for the Orchid Mantis is about 28 ° C, but you can vary the temperature between 25 ° and 35 ° C. At night the temperature should be at least 18 ° C. If you want to mate a male and a female that where born at the same time, you need to slow down the development of the male. These males should be constantly kept at 18 ° C."

[@123bubbleup]

So cool! Loved the close ups

[@paranoiarpincess]

If I had that little orchid mantis I would name it Bubbles. Because the first thing we saw it do was clean utself ♡. Beautiful haul ♡. I would call the second one Boxer because the first thing it did was attack lol.

[@steveboutcher80]

Congrats! Beautiful creatures! You are lucky... I live in Norway where it's almost impossible to get hold of inverts. To make it worse, almost nowhere in the world will send live inverts to this country. Kinda sucks to be an avid entomologist in Norway.

[@amgtarantulas]

So freaking cute! Thanks for sharing! Hope u enjoy ur new babies!

[@cornishpixie558]

I love all your new beetles and spider's, however the mantis has melted my heart ❤️ Their first interactions with you show so much trust from the start.

[@tracybowling1156]

Best episode ever. I really like when you say "comparisment"!

[@usernamenotavailablee]

Those mantises look like ALIENS! I really hope they'll breed for you. Also the green lynx spider is easily one of the most BEAUTIFUL spiders I've ever seen.

[@rosehogenson1398]

Those orchid mantises are the most beautiful bugs I have ever seen 😍😍

[@boges11]

The Peucetia definitely needs to be named Rorschach. Congrats on the additions, they all look awesome.

[@lottie8732]

everytime you said "autofocus" I understood "out of focus" and I found it pretty fitting ;)

[@Cattrix999]

Oh the lynx spider is just gorgeous! In the macro shots it looked like it was made of beautiful quartzes. Nice assortment of some interesting animals :)

[@jenniferk8081]

Breeding Hymenopus coronatus (orchid mantis) is difficult if they are from the same eggsac. Usually male mantises mature faster and are faster ready for fun time compared to females, who take longer to reach that. So, you have to keep the males cooler and feed less (but still enough so it wont die obviously), while you keep the females warmer and feed them way more. Oh, and only because I say you should keep a male mantis cooler, does not mean to keep them at maybe 20 degrees Celsius while keeping the female at 40 degrees celcius. That could kill a mantis (up to the species). Usually there is a range of temperature. For an example, sources will tell you, that you can keep the orchid mantis in a range of 24-30 degrees celcius. So, you will keep the male at constant 24°C (or 25°C) and the female at constant 30°C and both are fine. Male will grow slower than the female (if given both same amount of food) and there is a good chance both are kinda 'ready' at the same time for fun. Yey! Also, the amount of food affects their growing rate. If you give them more food, they grow faster. If you give them just enough food, they grow slower. That however, works only with a few mantis species (that you can breed a pair coming from the same eggsac). It is very difficult (still possible tho) with the orchid mantis if male and female are from the same eggsac. Usually you need a male from a younger eggsac, while the female is from an older eggsac to have a better chance for them to mature 'at the same time'. A female orchid mantis needs two more molts than a male to become an adult. A female takes 3-4 weeks to be ready for fun time while a male takes roughly 1 week. Btw an eggsac that comes from a mantis is also known as ootheca. Most of the information I have from the website mantidsandmore. It has a great 'care sheet' for many mantids. It helps me a lot with mine :)

[@missdire]

The orchid mantis is SO pretty!! I've loved them ever since the newest Animal Crossing came out.

[@denomspeedo5109]

14:52 soo cute

[@heidi2270]

That mantis are so beautiful! Like a little flowers. 🤗🌺

[@Fuzzypetrock]

Love your videos and am looking forward to all the new creatures

[@karenstephens8788]

Those are the tiniest praying mantises I have ever seen. The coloration is simply amazing.

[@misslevochki]

Mantis looks like flower petals, so pretty!

[@20PINKluvr]

That last beetle was an oogpister! And yay you finally got a nephila spider. They spin real golden webs

[@adennist2296]

If you're wanting a green spider i recommend you look for Leucauge venusta. They're very beautiful and have a vibrant green.

[@hikariizuki1693]

I have those larvae too, a similar one. I got them from a fallen tree in front of my house, I wonder what kind of beetle it will become

[@lindalumae]

Everyone seems way too excited to watch roaches get ripped apart by beetles! We really better hope that roaches never become the primary species. They will feeding us to their children. 😬

[@HammboneBob]

Damn Petko, if I new you were in Croatia I woulda visited 2 years ago... Hope you have a wonderful weekend bro.

[@donnamassey6555]

Love all your macro shots of your animals, showing us all those details we normally couldn't see, absolutely amazing!

[@MorhosFilmLab]

the unsheathing of that box cutter sounded epic

[@dawne.h.8786]

I was at work today so I didn’t get to watch your new video until now. Great way to end my night and start my week, another awesome video Petko! I’m going to be getting my first T pretty soon and I can’t wait! Just have to decide which one I want to start my collection with. 2 yrs ago I wouldn’t dream of owning an arachnid because I’ve had arachnophobia my whole life but after watching your videos (and a few other channels too) I’m fascinated and can’t wait to get my own so thank you 🖤

[@qynoi42]

The bitty orchid mantids are giving me much joy!

[@shaunacorrigan9372]

This may have been my favorite unboxing yet! The orchid mantises are absolutely beautiful, the beetles are gonna be so much fun to watch grow, and I'm so glad you were finally able to get a pair of Nephila spiders! The lynx spider is super cool, too! I don't want it to be stressed or scared, but I gotta admit I'd like to see how it spits venom😅 Also, I read that some species can start to lose their green pigmentation as they get older, so hopefully that doesn't mean you got one that's just gonna die soon. Either way, can't wait to see what happens with these little guys!

[@brandonsparks5786]

Orchid Mantids, super cool!

[@davidzalewski4933]

Petko, I love ur videos - super idea to get these orchidmantids +Hercules beetle! I am super excited about how they develop and grow 👍🏼

[@MancunianManxman]

2:10 "...and it is ᵗⁱⁿʸ" 🤣🤣

[@rogthegoodboy3520]

Here in Thailand we also have a lynx spider that is bright green :) seems smaller than yours but is more brightly colored and they love hanging out in the plants. They can jump a little bit too when they're angry and that's the funniest thing ever 😂

[@thebaconbrotato]

The orchid mantids are so pretty.

[@Eliaasandersson]

Looking back at this 9 months later and realising that we didn't get a single update on these animals. Like, I know you had your first kid, but it's time to get back too two videos a week and keep us updated again Petko.

[@Eliaasandersson]

If I were a patreon subscriber, I would be pretty disappointed. Because they essentially paid for these animals and only got to see them once.

[@franiodanio1472]

I ADORE unboxings!!! Thank you!!! (PS. What website do you use to buy them?)

[@Papapunchline]

oh nice, im from germany and i ordered there, at this shop, some stuff too, a while ago. its very good.

[@darkmido6087]

What is the name off the shop? Please

[@ambersheridan6113]

The orchids are so beautiful amazing

[@danielballard3364]

Love it that you are covering Mantids finally *thumbs up*

[@candylovejoy9805]

I am really excited to see the orchid mantis grow

[@Anadune0903]

omg so much cool new additions, i always love the macro- action :)

[@The_Thing_in_your_Mind]

im hyped about the growing Beatle video

[@torquess454]

Got some neat species Petko! The mantids are stunning!

[@runa8354]

I love praying mantis! They are such awesome pets :)

[@lindagrant801]

Absolutely awesome video!!!!! Love that collection of creatures!

[@arachnophobe2arachnoholic]

Such beautiful new additions the green lynx is awesome

[@codsamanta]

The mantises are so cute, my heart!

[@asylumental]

The green spiders head/face shape looks really similar to a brown recluse, minus the coloring of course

[@Feintified]

Nice new additions to the dark den, its been a while!

[@Theranchula]

Those orchids looks awesome!!🙌🏼 the other one is sucha bully it made the second one so uncomfy lol

[@Leepbby]

Your New additions are Amazing!!!! Absolutely LOVE the Orchid Mantis such a Beautiful Species and to have 2 of them soo Cool!!

[@stevenedmund5680]

I'm thinking that the Lynx spider can change to a darker green if you put it on a green object. There is another spider that I believe that can do this. Orchid Mantis is awesome.

[@npf2621]

as always .. great video 💪🏼 greetings from switzerland 🇨🇭

[@ariab7697]

Please do updates regularly on the Orchid Mantis please! I would really love to see more of those cute babies!

[@eliharper6616]

The orb weavers mature like tarantulas. They grow at about the same rate, but males stop sooner, but unlike Tarantulas they live the same amount of time -about one year. Idk about that specific species, but Nephila usually find mates before the female mature and scavenge off of females kills. So maybe co-hab?

[@silklair5963]

Omg no way yopu have a green lynx :o sorry it's just one of my FAVOURITE spiders. Haven't watched your videos for quite some time and I forgot how fun your videos are!

[@gretchellestout3879]

Your back petko!!

[@jom6829]

Fantastic new additions. Can't wait to see more of them.

[@jennym.2268]

I love those mantis'. They are so pretty!

[@sandywalter9728]

Beautiful animals... especially the mantis!!!

[@benmicek6829]

I love the orchid mantises

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

Good news about the green lynx spider,she’s getting close to laying an egg sac.

[@fullonsociopath]

"Green tarantulas don't exist." Psalmopoeus cambridgei, Theraphosinae sp piura, Haplopelma lividum all green, Phormictopus sp. Hispaniola, Ephebopus cyanognathus: Are we a joke to you?

[@TheLog-uq3ti]

Orchid mantises. Hell yeah 🔥

[@jb222111]

Yay! Monday video time! Makes my Monday!!

[@Starmourner_x]

Oh I miss my orchid 😭 so hard to get them to adulthood, wish I got multiple babies to improve the chances

[@pamelamiller4029]

Good job Petco I enjoyed this Video immensely! I really like your Mantids, lloking forward to your Breeding them, they soo pretty :) I'm gonna catch me some Matids this year here in USA they are super cool little creatures, huh? Maybe I'll find some Jumping spiders as well. Stay tuned for more updates (lol) Keep up the great work. My BEST to Mia and Baby Erika

[@dahgman3225]

In Scotland often we see common house spiders and the males are seen more frequently, probably looking for a mate, but the spiders are similar in size for both genders although females have bigger abdomens

[@simonisenberg4516]

Thanks for the nice macro shots.

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome invertebrates especially the spiders dark den

[@albertobitar9025]

Even with the horn I think, Titanus giganteus is the biggest in the world, But you still have one hell of an insect.... Be very carefull not to put your hands among the two horns, or you will shout out loud, great video my friend, as usual.... One more thing if you can get specimens of Manticora spp. It will be worth every cent you spend.

[@amandarobb2856]

Hello Petko! Greetings from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦. I have name ideas for your Beatles! John, Paul, George and Ringo! You got 4 Beatles and the "other" Beatles were a fab 4 too! As for your glass spider, you could call it Bowie! After the famous David Bowie and the Glass Spider tour that was one of his most famous! Congrats on your new animals! Enjoy!!

[@williamsanimalkingdom4703]

in my school there is a lot of nephila spiders species it is so big like 17 cm or 20 cm and they are super beautifull i love to catch them bc i am a super duper spider lover and i have some tarantulas too

[@gretchellestout3879]

4:13 i would love that petko video of him/her growing?? Ni

[@judgej1710]

Awesome video yet again. Ding ding winner 🏆

[@gowie8395]

Beautiful 🤩

[@little_shirley]

I love the unboxing videos!!! 😍💕🕷️🕸️