Recent content by Woodbox

Checked the traffic this morning and saw something new.

:D Its rough. I do cut little trails so my 9 pound dog doesn't get stuck. Otherwise he has to hop everywhere.

I have been determined to catch my own food. My local fly population has been sporadic so I stopped cutting the grass in my backyard to see what happens. I have a nice privacy fence so my neighbors don't see my lack of standards. Soon, my bahia and johnson grass was tall with seed. At night, I...

I make mantis cages out of disposable plastic food containers. You can get nice 4 packs for a dollar or so. Nice cheap containers. I cut a big hole in the top and tape cheescloth to the hole. Cheesecloth wont keep fruit flies in. When you are using anything that feeds on fruit flies, put tin...

Just found and feed off a small caterpillar. It was like a writhing water balloon when the mantis hit it. Very gross and messy. He'll be cleaning for hours.

over 24 hours and still hooked :)

With as fast as it happened, I have a hard time believing a male had determined species, much less even gender with as much time as it took for him to make a decision. It was a female shaped object and he was going for it.

Liftoff here too. Big TY to Rick for his pinned thread. I have been really unhappy with my male. My females want to do nothing but eat now. Anything that moves is game. My males however seems distracted. They seem to want to eat if it is convenient. I feed my boy and if he thinks he can escape...

I have 5 stagmomantis carolina mantis. 2 of them are L8 adults as of July 30th. I plan to put the male in my bathroom and introduce the female using Rick's breeding technique (pics are gone :( ) pinned in this sub-forum this Friday or Sunday, about 2 weeks. If all goes well and they hookup...

I plan to breed my carolinas soon and want to store a few ooths till next spring. I suspect they will keep in my refrigerator that long. Anybody done this before? Any advice?

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I think it is harder for people to relate to them. You can relate to your dog or cat or even your hamster. The farther you go on the animal kingdom, the harder I think it is for some people to understand or show compassion or some animals. You have less in common. Dogs are social den animals...

1st and 2nd trip are from my trip to Italy / Greece in March. 3rd one is a Brewery in Colorado and the 4th is Launching model rockets with my brother on top of a landfill. (converted to failed golf course)

Is that the one that ruined the wedding?