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I see a lot of my images aren't posting (stooopid photobucket).  Love to fix that  - how are y'all posting images these days?  Is there a post on that...?

Hey, y'all! Long time, no see (and no mantids)! I have a small window of opportunity where I'll be in the same place for more than a month, so I'm going to hatch some local ooths and let them free if I have to bail.  You know, making sure I have an exit strategy.  :-) Anyhoo, want to start...

Bon voyage! I enjoy my mantid "droughts". Gives me a little peace of mind before getting back into the routine. Enjoy!

The easy answer for me was to just keep them in the same environment as the adults. Hot, well ventilated and more than 40% humidity. I did a lot of variations, and didn't see any differences that I could point to definitely. I even setup a grid in my tall tank with about 10 ooths, each about...

Awesome! (Wait, is that the right word...?) jk I'm very jealous.

You MAY need to ease off on the critters, and focus on school (could be the case). Or, as I have to do, ALLOW myself to play with my bugs AFTER I've done my work (as a reward). I don't even let myself browse the forum if my To DO list hasn't been addressed. Hopefully, you can make the...

Thanks. Anyone else...?

Oh, man - that takes me back! I had about 3 generations of those little buggers exploding all over every available flat space!!! I'm wishing you "good luck", but jeepers - you probably won't need it!!! :-)

I missed out on the Pink Katydid rush, but I'm interested in raising the garden variety (pun intended) green folk. Anyone have any experience with these guys...?

At night, probably nothing. A little cooling is fine (see first page of this thread). If you really need/want to heat, I suggest a ceramic bulb. If not that, try a heat stone or a heating rope (or whatever that thing's called).

You should SO go back to that old avatar! I love it! Well, I guess that babies face would be a close second. But still... :-)

I've had ooths that hatched parasitic wasps - tiny little things with looooong ovipositors - easily twice the length of the body. But I don't recall seeing holes in the ooths. Of course, they would have been tiny, so I may have just missed them.

I'm with Precarious (mostly). I'm positive it isn't NECESSARY - in that they will live, eat, mate and produce fertile ooths regardless. And there IS some risk with letting them FLY, as they are TERRIBLE at landing (on anything other than a tree). They fly fast enough, and have enough mass to...

Wait. What instar are they? It might just be a size issue. My ghosts that were up to Blue Bottles, were handling large Crane Flies.

Har DEE har ha!