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strigops · 1 year

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beautiful little a. vulgare from my florida pods culture, sadly infected with rickettsiella. they’ve apparently been slow cooking the infection for over a year and a half and it’s taken until now for them to start showing noticeable symptoms (thanks again @crevicedwelling for the help in diagnosing it!!). not surprising considering these guys were scooped out of a backyard in sarasota and lived on a diet of soil and leaves indiscriminately dug up from the front of the lab building they originally lived in, but still a bummer as they’re my fav culture :(

i have salvaged quite a few (currently) healthy individuals, hopefully the new subculture will do well and i can eventually eliminate it over subsequent generations!

#for context: these guys are from the lab i worked at in FL lol #we had a bioactive tank full of FL native arthropods that we used for education in bio classes #(these guys obviously aren’t native but they’re a good example of detrivores and important soil dudes anyway)#anyway it’s rlly interesting that the majority of the healthy ones i pulled were the wild type grey ones #not sure if they’re actually more hardy/resistant or if the color just makes it easier for me to tell they’re healthy lmao

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