12/26/2021: Prepping for the winter roach dump
Although I love spending time with loved ones during the holidays, it’s also nice to get back to bug work. I’ve found sticking to a schedule has been very helpful in keeping projects organized and work flowing, and disrupting that almost always has rippling repercussions. Fortunately winter is an excellent time to catch up on things, since the frigid and dead outdoors isn’t nearly as alluring as it is all summer.
I’ve been talking about doing a large roach species update, and that time is drawing near. I have somewhere between 20 and 50 species/strains to post, and I feel obligated to complete that within the next 2-3 weeks. This is Roach Crossing after all and other taxa have been stealing the show on the new species page for months…
At some point I’ll do another big isopod update, but the limiting factor for that right now is finishing my container overhaul. I did one last year in February and it drove me mad for weeks… This time things should go a little more smoothly since I’ve consolidated and made progress on some projects that used to be multiple bins. Isopod husbandry is veryyy tedious as well; going through hundreds of 6 quart bins with proper cross-contamination protocol took hours. The new set ups account for my newfound laziness and should cut overall work by over 75%. Now that’s my kind of husbandry!
-Kyle