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strigops · 5 months ago

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old lady boris and her little white leg 🤍

she’s my oldest and largest a. vulgare and even in her advanced age is currently FULL of mancae!!! i regularly check the bellies of my isolated and hopefully healthy vulgare’s to make sure they are aren’t infected, and was pleasantly surprised to see many babies in the grand ol dame’s pouch. the do-over culture has tons of babies already and im so glad these guys have hope. i won’t know for a very long time if the whole culture is uninfected since the disease can take so long to progress to being symptomatic but i feel good about it, knock on wood. may boris and her many kids help save the florida bugs <3

#i love these dudes so much. theyre my sentimental value bugs #if they indeed make it to the point where i know theyre no longer infected i will likely get a few more just to add some genetic diversity #interstingly its still the grey wild type individuals that seem almost resistent to it #or at least asymptomatic (im hoping this isnt the case)#which makes sense #its almost always the lighter colored and very highly patterned individuals in the zombie bin that either die very young or act much sicker #its not even the rickettsia changing their color (it does that) but you can tell who was lighter or brightly patterned even before then

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