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I'm not that experienced with American Bark Scorpions but so far a lot of the babies have already dispersed and they are starting to eat on their own. This morning I threw some fruit flies into the container and saw several of the babies running around with them in their mouths. So they are...

This is just an update... The baby scorpions had their first molt today and as best as I can tell they are all still on the mother's back, although it does look like a few are gone. I am trying not to disturb the mother too much so I am just looking in from as many angles as I can. I keep my...

That's because I took good care of the mother and the rest of the group. My animals live better than I do. :huh: As each day goes by they look less gooshy and more like little versions of the mother. When I watch them I can see some of them moving about on the mother and wiggling their...

One of my Centruroides hentzi had babies on Sunday and I remember mentioning I had gravid scorpions in a previous post. Those babies are the size of a grain of rice.

Okay! So I'm down to my last three. I started with two ooths and ended up with 400-600 babies and gave the majority of those away and since then have been whittling down my population. Thank God mine and my neighbors back yards are heavily planted. I'm down to my last three and realized that...

One of my Chinese Mantises just molted this morning, bringing the total amount of molts to exactly seven. So now it's an L7. Is there going to be another molt? After the final molt how long will the Mantis live?

Scorpions give birth to live young. When the baby scorpion comes out it has a tissue around it and the mother helps it break free and it then crawls onto the mothers back and stays there till the 2nd instar.

I guess I'm a Mantis noob. According to the info on the side of my posts I'm only an ootheca, you're a 7th Instar. I need to start making more posts! The species of scorpion that are ready to pop are an American species from our southwest. I've only kept African species but had an...

$10.00 for FF? You're in the same state as Josh's Frog's. They have fruit fly cultures starting at 3.99 for D. melanogaster. I think they are located in Owosso, MI. I was going to buy some Ghost Mantises but right now I sort of have my hands full with several gravid scorpions that are going...

Whoops...I got into my photobucket account and deleted the Mantis photos I took for the New Topic I started and forgot about whole "link thing". I only shot this photo and a few others for my question. I guess enough of the locals have seen it to understand my question and rearin' techniques...

Thanks for all the info everyone. I didn't realize Chinese Mantises were that plentiful here in the U.S. I knew they were common to certain parts of the country but didn't realize how many there were. Rick, I'll do as you suggest. I put the moss in there to help retain moisture to aid in...

Now that I know they will eat each other if kept together at any stage of their lives, let me ask two questions; 1. At what age will I be able to accurately sex them? 2. These people on the internet - that offer ooths in great numbers, implies they are breeding them in great numbers...

Hi everyone... I mostly raise scorpions but decided to buy a couple of Chinese Mantis ooths because I always wanted a Chinese Mantis and had heard they were docile and you could hold them. That, and the fact they got a lot bigger than the native species I found in my garden. Long story short...