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Are you looking for pet breeders?

We have breeders in our network for the following species:

Bearded dragons
Forest dragons
Blue tongue lizards
Green tree pythons
Tarantulas

Please contact us for breeder details.

If you’re a breeder and would like us to pass on your details (for free), please connect with us!

Fluroescent rodent study in FNQ

Research conducted by Linda Reinholdt, James Cook University Cairns.

Research showing fluorescent rats being predated on in natural environments.

Researchers from James Cook University, led by zoologist Linda Reinhold, aimed to find out if wild nocturnal mammals and birds reacted to fluorescent fur any more or less
often than non-fluorescent fur. They used rat pelts supplied by ‘Bugs Alive’, which were found to fluoresce under UV light.

The results showed rats do NOT glow in moonlight (at least not to vertebrate eyes).

See the media release below for further details.

This research was conducted on the Atherton Tablelands in 2021-2022.

This project was funded by the North Queensland Wildlife Trust (Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures), James Cook University College of Science and Engineering and an Australian Government Research Training Scholarship, granted to Linda Reinhold. Rats were sourced from Bugs Alive, Cairns.

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We are looking for other commercial quantities of clean food waste streams. So if you have or know of these types of waste streams, please pass on their details?

We also recycle the plastic insect containers to reduce waste. This costs us more in time than a new container does, but we want to reduce our impact on the environment as much as possible. We are searching for recyclable containers for live insects - so if you know of any, please let us know!

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We are always looking to improve our services and operations and would really appreciate any feedback you can provide, even if the feedback is negative. If we dont know about it, we can't improve it.

We want to be the leading live insect provider for North Queensland.

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