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Even ignoring your immediate and inappropriate insult, your post is full of emotional regurgitation of Big Agriculture propaganda and simple marketing campaigns.

You've been sold a commercial you reiterate without realizing it. America is not "Feeding The World™". Since your post was entirely lacking in facts and sources, I'll provide some:

• 86 percent of the value of U.S. agricultural exports last year went to 20 destinations with low numbers of hungry citizens and human development scores that are medium, high or very high, according to the U.N. Development Program.
  
  
• Only half of one percent of U.S. agricultural exports, calculated according to their value, went to a group of 19 countries that includes Haiti, Yemen and Ethiopia. These are nations with high or very high levels of undernourishment, measured by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
  
  So no, we are not the World's Breadbasket. Modern factory farming is not sustainable and constitutes at least 10% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US. The only purpose it serves is to stuff the coffers of Big Agri.
  
  Farm Subsidies are a big part of this. Initially meant as "a temporary solution to deal with an emergency", the majority of these (still active and growing) subsidies go to farmers corporations with net worths of $2 million. That's not to mention the > $130 million spent on lobbying last year from these same companies, companies which already own many local representatives from Agricultural meccas in the mid-west.
  
  Despite the hard data representing the U.S.'s contribution to combat global hunger, Monsanto claims that feeding the rest of the world is America's "moral imperative", and not only in the interest of their bank accounts and stock options.
  
  No aspect of factory farming is intended to be humane. The sole purpose is to be as cheap as legally possible, and where possible, change the laws. There's much more data and news articles regarding the scummy practices in local politics, in spraying feces-and-toxin coctails into the air because you can't legally keep it in pools (in some areas). I highly recommend you do some research and come to understand the true motivations of this industry.
  
  I could go on, but others have done it much better. If anyone's interested in a non-preachy and fact-oriented account of a fantastic author researching what would be best to feed his child, I highly recommend Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Moths can be sourced from other hobbyists as eggs or as adult cocoons. To raise them you must have access to the moth species host plant. Then all you need is a cage to rear them in.

I have found most the people I know who share specimens through Instagrams entomology community. If you want to contact me there, I can link to other users. Also interesting if you like seeing insect collections.

Otherwise, this HORRIBLE excuse for a website is actually one of the best resources for acquiring eggs and cocoons. The guy who runs it also posts a lot of basic rearing info.

Here is a Cheap cage

Here are some super nice cages

And this is the best place to find any other entomology supply thing under the sun Another horribly ugly site, but one of science's oldest institutions

Silk moths or Saturniidae, the family of which Attacus atlas is a part of are some of the most fun moths to rear. Most feed on readily available hardwood trees like maple, cherry, or oak. They are large and colorful, like the Io moth or Luna moth.These Cecropias (that's my face) are actually native to North America but we rarely ever see them because they live a very short amount of time, and only fly way up in the trees at night.

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For about 10.5 full days, staying in hostels, using the Swiss Travel Pass for Youth (under 26yo), eating out most days (but taking snacks wherever I went), and flying in/out of Geneva plus an overnight layover in Barcelona, it cost about $2,500. I might be off by a bit, and I definitely went in with a "I fucking deserve this" attitude that helped ease my mind when spending a lot certain days. I budgeted for about that much, but if you don't have certain things like a good travel backpack or certain kinda clothes, which I actually didn't, it'll ring you up a bit more. So I didn't include that cost in my calculations because I can reuse those things.

Flight tickets were also very cheap (which I did include in my calculations). Total was about $565 from Oakland, CA. That's before the cost of reserving my seat for Norwegian Air (about $45 each way, definitely worth it), and when they forced me to check my bag on the way back, which was $90 :( I got away with one big, TSA friendly bag (osprey farpoint 40L) plus a daypack except for 3/4 of my flights, but on the last one they told me it weighed too much (even though I had less stuff than my other 3 flights).

Wow! Great info! I read this book called “Other Minds”
(https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Consciousness/dp/0374227764) and it suggested that octopuses and cuttlefish use their color as a form of expression, sort of like talking. But in a language specific to the individual. This was based on the non localization of the octopuses “brain” and the lack of continuity in their patterns. Aside from the more primitive communication. This is better described in the book, obviously. Just wanted to pitch in on some already fantastic information, and see if you have any more information to add.

Absolutely! As far as fun and educational videos, I recommend browsing Tom Moran’s channel Tom’s Big Spiders (he also has a blog) as well as The Dark Den. Tom actually has a blog post (here) giving a run-down of the Avicularia revision, as well!

Quality books on tarantulas are, unfortunately, few and far between. However, Stanley & Marguerite Schultz’s book The Tarantula Keeper’s Guide has long been considered a bible for hobbyists. It focuses mainly on tarantulas in captivity, but it does delve into some of the biology and physiology of Theraphosids. There is some outdated infomation in terms of husbandry and taxonomy since the latest edition was published in 2009, but it’s still an excellent book!

There are some decent Amscope scopes on Amazon. I got something like [this one] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004QEFO1Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1500439482&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=B007LBETCQ%7CB004UMDLAA%7CB00AM5XB5O%7CB005O0XVTS%7CB00AZOICT2%7CB009JROROU%7CB004QEFO1Q%7CB007LBETCQ&dpPl=1&dpID=41a90GOXjiL&ref=plSrch) a few years back and I actually prefer it over my clinical lab scope at work. It's really quite heavy and sturdy, so I don't hesitate to let my sons play with it. We go "bear hunting" in the backyard after it rains. You can connect a digital camera to the trinocular piece on the top. Amscope sells those, too, but they are usually a low mp. I got the Canon converter and attach my Canon 6d to it.

I'm sure your daughter would love it! My kiddos are always bringing random things home to look at under the microscope. They could spend hours with a little cup of pond water.

If you're curious to find out why they live such short lifespans and learn more about their intelligence, I highly recommend "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Consciousness/dp/0374227764 The subtitle is "The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness." Very readable and informative.

Octopus minds are basically as close as we'll get to encountering alien intelligence.

I swear I'm starting to become a salt facts bot, but if you're interested in salt, you really should pick up Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky. It's really fascinating!!

There's a great book that deals with this exact topic, called The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. It basically starts off with every human simply disappearing from Earth, and the process in which nature would reclaim the planet. It's science fiction obviously, but without an overarching story. It reads sort of like a historical text about a what-if scenario of the future. I recommend it if you're interested in this subject.

There's a book on this called "Scale" written by a theoretical physicist that explains why phenomenon like arteries and capillaries are all governed by physical constraints and shows you all the different ways those constraints manifest. If you liked this comment you should probably check it out. The high seas might be able to help.

https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582

Yeah it's pretty cool, been wanting one for a while! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H1HVCL6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_iyzpzb89ZEXXX

Some time ago you made The Secret World of Bats documentary and it has some amazing footage. The vampire sequence in particular was memorable. If you had the opportunity to remake it, what changes would you want to make?

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Having read "The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" I will never eat octopus. And am glad I never have. Now the mere sight of a dish of octopus makes me feel ill.

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Octopus-Surprising-Exploration-Consciousness/dp/1451697724

I think the octopus is the most remarkable animal on the planet. They're the size of a grain of rice when they're born. They receive no parental instruction. They have to learn everything on their own. They have a short lifespan with most species only living one to two years.

And they develop this incredible intelligence. Their abilities at problem solving and mimicry are legendary.

If you wanna read about soil, I'd recommend Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan. If you're looking for a soil science textbook, I'd go with Brady & Weil. If you're looking for just general reading recommendations, I've really been loving King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.

I bought mine about a year ago just because I thought they'd be fun to have. It was a couple of dollars for five pairs. The wife and kids get those, but I get a nice big set of welding goggles (with lenses) because I'm a grown-ass man and I can do what I want, dammit.

Amazon has it for sale, both streaming and on disc.

I picked up the 4k bluray, and it is awesome.

I have this one

But my Dads got this one and it's way more powerful.

I can still use mine to spot them from my porch. They glow like crazy, jst have all your other lights off. It's like looking for the less-bright stars.

If you like octopuses, check out the book The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. It's a fun read.

Looks like the cover to one of my favorite books: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Wild-Jack-Turner/dp/0816516995

Don't worry, they are only $1600!!!!

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$1600

You would like the book Other Minds. It's about Cephalopod psychology and the beginning of the book depicts their evolution.

Edit: Link for the lazy

This one almost makes the cut with $120 at 300mm. Though you still need a filter in order to not melt your sensor.

I'm sure there are older lenses you could get with decent focal length if you were willing to buy used.

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Consciousness/dp/0374227764