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Cannon 450D SLR (this picture just taken with the standard lens) ;)

Purple armed flower mantis adult female Creobroter (sp unknown) Origin: Thaii

Thats about the size of mine, they are similar size to gemmatus (a bit smaller than meleagris ;)

One of the female Creobroter cf urbanus (IGM 174)with an adult C meleagris (the stripy legged one) for comparisons

Thats what the truncata was thinking so I tied her up anyway. On a serious note, they hate it and I wouldnt recommend it, all other mating successes from this point were without tieing and things went smoothly (you've see my latest thread in this section :P )

Yep, the amount I have perspired when putting my only male with the females :D Anyway, he is still alive so I will start over when shes heaving again B)

Just another day at the office ;) Mated four times :D

Tell me about it! My Rhombodra cant seem to stop at the neck! :D Anyway, 2nd female mated ;)

You will have to put pics of the adult females up when you get them there as I have seen Theopropus with variations in markings :blink: quite interesting!

Aday later they were :D

A little Prophylactic treatment of the female first is in order, shes one mean mother lover... And later that night, voila

OMG :blink: Looks like you got about 100 out of that ooth!!!! Congrats, Do they do well in net cages? I have 30 left out of my 42 but 28 of those are now 2nd instar so looks ok for the Uk (timebeing) B) :D

Thanks Shaik and everyone else, I will keep you posted and I will add something to provide some more shelter for the nymphs ;)

Thanks Shaik, they are looking great at the mo, any tips on best housing for getting them started seeing as you have had a good deal of success? :D

:D Not a bad hatch from this one, just a few stickies but due to a known humidity drop, still a good result!

Brilliant! bought a C nebulosus ooth from Yen and TWO arrived in double-time, fantastic! Thanks again Yen :D

I have a load of unmated (and very much ready to lay) female Euchomonella and Gongylus and need males so If anyone has any capeable males, and would like to excange for females or come to some other arrangement, let me know. Thanks

If you have the male, you can remate but dont wory if you havn't, like I say, you could end up with any kind of hybrid. The best way to keep a pure strain unfortunately is to breed nymphs from wild caught ooths when inbreeding is not seen appropriate. There are over 75 species of Creobroter and...

If she has been mated once, dont wory so much about it, they lay about 4 or 5 fertile ooth ad you will be over run ;) just keep a good number from the 1st ooth and be carefull when buying male creos as I have seen so many gemmatus that arent gemmatus :( There must be 100's of hybrids out...

Got some ooths of new species for my collection from Marius, very smooth hastle free transaction, I paid - he sent. Quick delivery and well packed. Thanks Marius, hope to deal again in the future. Great Guy