Moult Mountain Invertebrates - Au

05/05/2026

Get ready for some fat updates. Starting hard with the Koi Kids 🐡

04/01/2026

Update 🪱

03/01/2025

Check out this sick video from @ don't forget to subscribe for some awesome keeping content right here in Australia 🌏
Scaping a MM enclosure for whip scorpions!
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Terrarium DIY Build for my Charinus pescotti (tailless whip scorpions), a native amblypygid to far north Queensland.Enclosure by Moult Mountainwww.moultmount...

03/12/2024

Newest sticker design to hit the shop!

Laureola sp. Ivory spiky

A spiky pearl of the forest!
Wanted to draw this guy for a while now and finally got around to it, they have the most incredible translucent exo skeleton with this blue that comes through, spiky isopods come in many variations and colours through out the world, im fortunate to have some of the native australian type breeding out, fascinating little pod 🩵

Find translucent backed stickers in the shop, they are huge and the print quality is second to none!

look I finally did it 😂 now I'm going back to my spider cave! 💜

08/10/2024

Well, what can I say, that's was an absolute blast!! Thank you CVRIC EXPO!
Central Victorian Regional Insect Collection

My heart is so full from all the buggy love, what a magical community that grows every day!
Never did I think as a 35 yr old I would get to talk bugs with so many incredible, skilled, diverse, and just truly talented people.
So many of you came to say hello, bought something from myself or other vendors, and showed your full support by venturing out in the pouring rain with big smiles. So many new faces, some I've been fortunate enough to see for two years running 💜

The beautiful comments, gifts, and conversations just flaw me every time, and I can't thank you all enough! The Raffle was a huge success, and making someone smile this much truly was the icing on the cake for the whole expo! Look forward to the next giveaway collab if you would like to partner up, please contact me, I hope to offer these regularly with proceeds going to a nominated conservation charity 🌱

The mealworm display was a highlight for so many, watching strangers, people of all ages, families, teachers, and more surrounding it and discussing the global plastic pollution crisis, was so humbling and meant the absolute world to me. So many of you said you wanted to replicate it in classrooms, discuss it with peers and share this fascinating discovery 🌏♻️
(This is not my original research, just the set up design)

I can't wait for next year! Some major plans and projects in the pipeline for this year too, I can't wait to share this with you all as things develop, but let's just say, I am working as hard as I can to bring us new and exciting possibilities in this wonderful nature loving community 💜

Thank you thank you thank you, please bare with me if you are waiting for an order or for a return message, the website is officially closed until the 10th but I aim to get these out express tomorrow. Unfortunately i seem to have picked up a bug of the non favourable kind during the intense effort of the weekend, slowing me down a little but I hope to be back regular updates in the next day or so!

All the buggy love you wonderful two leggers, you make this all possible and I could not do it without your support 💜

01/10/2024

Key matchstick grasshoppers were thought to be extinct.

Now, the largest translocation of grasshoppers to a new habitat where they can thrive is taking place. Prof Michael Kearney from our Faculty of Science at Melbourne has been instrumental in this project.

🔗 Learn more → unimelb.me/3Xum5JS

30/09/2024

⚠️ Edited to accomodate everyone, hopefully! please read changes:

The epic expo giveaway! (SHARE ME FAR AND WIDE)
Moult Mountain has partnered up for what I hope is the first of many collaborations with a bunch of you wildly talented bug lovers and creators!
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Raffle will be open from Friday at 10am and will be drawn Sunday at 2pm (see conditions of entry below), find the Moult Mountain stall to enter 💜

Central Victorian Regional Insect Collection expo 2024, Woodend Victoria, this weekend!! Get your tickets and have a chance at this mind blowing set up!

Prize includes:
- Full set of Moult Mountain enclosures (all 6!😮)
- Full sticker set (Hand drawn by yours truly)
- Multiple MM Hides to go with your sweet new bug real estate
- bumper pack of hides, decor and ledges!
- hand-made substrate pack and stunning white isopods
- springtail bumper pack, live moss and hand made isopod food!
- MM mega substrate pack
- MM isopod surprise pack
- MM surprise jumping spider buddy
- MM mug/poster/postcards
- Cute magnifying glass

Can't wait to see you all there! 🕷🪱🌱🦋🐞🐛🐌🍄‍🟫🪰🦗🪲🐜🐝🪳💜

Conditions of entry:
- Winner will be drawn 2pm Sunday, in the case of a large amount of entries, please do not block the aisles while waiting for the draw
- No more than 10 entries per person
- Under 18's must be accompanied by an adult (Age restriction required due to live invertebrates included in prize)
- Raffle tickets are $1 (cash only)
- If you must leave and are not present during the draw I will organise postage, all though would prefer Raffle ticket holders to be present if possible (makes it more fun!) But understand that might not be possible for everyone
- Ticket holders only, open to all attending the CVRIC expo including stall holders

23/09/2024

Paralysed and waiting:

We accidentally broke open a mud-dauber wasp nest at Minibeast Wildlife while moving some equipment. The mud cells were packed with paralysed jumping spiders of multiple species. The adult female wasp captures and paralyses the spiders and then packs them into the mud cells. She then lays an egg before closing the cell over with mud. The spiders are paralysed, but not killed so that they do not rot and the wasp larva can consume them over time. We rearranged the contents of one cell for this photograph. The wasp larva is in the centre in the process of consuming a spider.

Minibeast Wildlife aims to educate & inspire about Australia’s amazing invertebrate life.

🌐 www.minibeastwildlife.com.au

17/09/2024

So you're a Green ant minding your own business, and some butt-head whips you up in a silk trap for an evening snack! Meet Miss Butt-head or the Green ant mimicking spider (Propostira quadrangulata). She has fake 'eye-spots' on her abdomen and the rest of her is the colouration of the ants. Her disguise isn't going to fool the ants though, as they rely on sensing chemical scents to detect each other. It most likely provides her with some visual defence from other visual predators (such as birds) while she hangs around the Green ant nests, making her silken traps.

15/09/2024

The mighty Dragon Springtail, found in various regions across Victoria's south east coast and Tasmania, including the Yarra ranges which is where Moult Mountain is based, lucky me! (Still not seen one yet)

(Womersleymeria Bicornis)

These guys are seriously incredible and quite large for a springtail at 1cm+, only small pockets of information seem to exist about them and their behaviours in the wild 💜🌱

Found in tall closed forests within rotting logs in mossy/ferny habitats and are part of the Tasmanian giant springtails group, they have unusually elongated antennae at twice the size of other Australian springtails!
I know of only one extremely experienced person working with these in captivity right now, and I must say I'm glad. Due to climate change and deforestation, incredible terrestrial arthropods such as these are becoming threatened species.

Ethically captive breeding some of these rare and prehistoric wonders could be vitally important for their future existence 🌏🪱