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DarkWolf

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I have a male who molted into an adult a week ago and a female that molted into an adult 3 days ago. Any tips for breeding them?
 
Give the female another week or two, feed them both, and let them be together. The trick I use is that if the female is ready she will be letting out pheromones, so the male should be super attentive. You can keep him in the same room a day before to enhance that effect. but honestly ghosts are about as easy as it gets to breed, just as long as females are internally mature. Good Luck!
 
Is this a female Ghost?
 

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Is this a female Ghost?
100% male
Beautiful male too.
His antennae are super long and thick, his wings are longer than his body, his abdomen is rectangular, and his “crown” is jagged, angular, and not symmetrical. Male and female adult ghosts are easy to tell apart once you see them both.

Here is one of my adult females who passed recently.
 

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