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Onychiurinae - Onychiurus
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Onychiurinae - Onychiurus
Elk Grove, Sacramento County, California, USA
March 17, 2015
Hopefully these can be ID'd to species? Collected from underneath a bucket in a moist environment. I'm raising them indoors on moist peat moss and ground cat food pellets and they are thriving.

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Contributed by Jordan Landerman on 18 March, 2015 - 5:24am
Last updated 18 March, 2015 - 1:31pm

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