Recent content by Love2read

I, too, have been a victim of the extremely annoying PMs. Thankfully, I knew better than to approve his friend request. He put a false age on his FB account(23). I'm willing to bet he's closer to 13, if even. That means he either used someone else's Ebay account or gave Ebay fraudulent info...

Thanks you guys(gals)! I'm trying not to worry since it's obviously still fertile, but I guess it's only natural for mommies to worry. :P Hopefully they'll hatch out soon! I'm so excited to see adorable little Orchid babies! <3 It's going to be hard not to want to keep every last one, ha ha.

With it being winter I've been trying to keep my critter room(which is where I keep my mantids) around 75 degrees, but it tends to vary and flux between 70-80. My question is how will this effect the time it takes for an Orchid ootheca to hatch and will it hatch at all?... I have 2 ooths with...

I tried leaving babies in a large container once and ended up losing every last one of them. 75% were gone in a matter of days. I think they weren't getting enough food because some babies would eat the flies and the others wouldn't get any. The mortality rate is significantly lower with the...

Oh yeah, the updated for today is: not a SINGLE fatality! o.O

Yes, I counted EVERY...SINGLE...ONE! >< I transferred them all into little sauce cups and had to cram 5 per container(1 has 6) because there were so darn many. *facepalm* I would have spread them out further, but I have an orchid ooth ready to hatch soon and didn't want to risk not having...

I'm feeding them hydei, which they seem to be able to take down with no problems and since they're bigger I don't have to feed them as many(phew!). Sadly, my hydei cultures I got came with grain mites and are now fully loaded with them. :/ I was going to chuck them last week, but decided to wait...

I just had a Chinese ooth hatch out 341 babies!!! O.O So, what's your biggest hatch ever? :)

If a vendor messes up and order, they are the ones to pay for the costs of the mistake, not the customer. That's just good customer service. I was an online vendor for many years and I would have NEVER told a customer that they would have to pay the shipping costs for an item, especially if it...

Very disappointed with my most recent order... On Thursday, November 28, I placed an order for some containers, some GOLD Hydei cultures, fly pupae, and a 72-hour heat pack. The package was shipped Monday and arrived yesterday(not bad on shipping time). Upon inspecting the contents of the...

I didn't even notice the wingbuds. Aww...his tiny wings are so cute! <3 So, do males get their wingbuds at L5? I would assume that means females get them at L6?

#1 molted into an L5 yesterday and there was pretty much zero change in size and the collar is brown. So I think it's safe to assume he's a boy. ;)

Ha ha ha! We have a convert! ;D I didn't even know mantids could give puppy dog eyes til I took that pic, lol.

Thank you so much Precarious! That seems like a much more straightforward method of sexing. :) Here are pics of the 4 babies: I'm thinking that 1 and 3 are probably boys and 2 and 4 are girls. I hope! I'd hate to end up with all boys or 3 boys and only 1 girl. *eye twitch* e.e Hopefully...

How can you not say "awwww..." to that?!