This dummy has been trying to drink the wall for at least fifteen minutes now

 

Also I have way more than eight specimens now (I grabbed a whole bunch more today).

I have adults!

 Two Three* of my L. zonatus simultaneously performed their final molts today!

Current stats:

Adult x3

Final-instar nymph x3

Early-instar nymph x2

* A third one adulted itself several hours after I posted this. I expect the other two will shortly follow.

Final-instar nymph of Leptoglossus zonatus

 

Hi I grabbed some juveniles and prevented them from being murdered. I'll probably release them as soon as I have an opportunity; all they do is sit around and slurp their tomato, it's not very interesting.

Bust, apparently

 The A. californica specimen from the previous post turned gray wherever it remained too wet. The parts of it that didn't were still green, and according to my calculations the light, substrate, and pH levels are all within a suitable range, so I'm more or less certain the water's indeed the problem. By the way, have I mentioned it was a calcareous-substrate plant? Yeah, the research papers never mention this but in the wild I found it growing with Bryum argenteum + lanatum, which are known calcicolous taxa, so we can deduce it's one too.

Anyways, I've decided that I'll let my wort go dormant for now because of the heat wave (I suspect it cannot gain any calories from photosynthesis above 79 Fahrenheit or so). Let's hope that once the weather cools down it'll start growing sprouts when I start watering.