I have sent away all my Nyctoporis carinata larvae! I now have no captive arthropods. Here are some pics of one shortly before sending it off in the mail. By the way, several died since my last count, so instead of 21 there are now 18. Intriguingly, some of the most small and/or injured larvae survived.
Here is a blurry vid of their defensive flopping and jerky gait. In dirtless containers they can start chain reactions of increasingly panicked flopping when one larva accidentally collides with another. Interestingly large larvae barely engage in peristalsis when they walk, unlike small larvae.
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