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Christian, thank you!

Hi! What species is this? (Sorry, I dont know the country where this photo was taken.) http://fishki_net.users.photofile.ru/photo...55/83801956.jpg

yen_saw, thank you for the information! I have good news - female molted and spread perfectly. About one week before the final molt I put her to the greenhouse on the window-sill. Because of about 4 hours of sunlight a day, temperature was 85-100F at daytime, ~ 68F at night. Also, first 2-3...

yen_saw, I feed them on 3 species of flies: Calliphora vomitoria, Eudasyphora cyanicolor, Lucilia sp. Before L4-5 they ate mostly drosophilas (D.virilis, D.melanogaster). I never give them crickets or any other non-flying insects. Kruszakus, hmm...seems strange, other species molted on the lid...

Male molted to imago, but the wings aren't spread well. Being spread lengthwise completely, wings didn't fold on back and protrude aside. Looks like this (friend's photo, same problem). Similar thing happened to the winter generation of Hierodula grandis, who didn't get neither...

...and at the present moment they both are on last instar, eating voraciously up to 3 blue or green flies a day instead of at least one fly in 2-3 days during wintertime.

Another ooth, layed March 11, hatched today without cold period too. About 50 nymphs came out.

They look nice, thanks for sharing! It's unusual that their eyes are brown-striped, just like of Empusids. Are they L1 on photos? What size are they? Are they bigger than Giant Asian hatchlings? Can Plistospilota be green or some other colour, like Hierodulas or Sphodros, or they can turn to...

M.religiosa ooth hatched after about 20 days of cold period, and about two months after being layed. In details, 5 days after it was layed I put it near the window at about 15*C for 10 days, then placed to the fridge (+3*C) for 20 days, then again to 15*C for 10 days, and then back to room...

I didn't see such glue in Russia as yet. I put a cone of paper napkin inside the cup, bend the edges outside down and fix it with the rubber band. After placing the mantis I cover the cup with the piece of mesh and fix it with another band (sorry, no photos available). This makes all the inner...

Yen, about your first post - it look like you place mantis into the deli-cup right after fixing pieces of cloth with glue. But some sorts of glue can be toxic until they dry up, especially in close compartment. Also, the upper piece of cloth may fall down because of weight of it's own and mantid's.

Once they hatched without any diapause, just after two months in room temperature. This autumn my friend made them cold period - first he put an ooth near a window for a week (at about 10-15*C), then to fridge (~3-5*C) for about two weeks, then again to the window for a week, and in october...

Are they harder to keep than M.religiosa?

IP.Board.Pro. Nostalgia for old forum :) .

I tried to keep four of L2-3 at about +15*C in october and after two of them died put them back to room temperature with about 2 hours of UV per day and plenty of food, mostly Drosophilas. They molted and now they are L4 and L5.

Good evening. I have two E.fasciata from WC ootheca and it looks like they don't need a cold period. They grow just like any other species. Now they are L4 and L5. I feed them only on flying insects, mostly on different species of Drosophila. When it was warm, caught small leafhoppers and...

Rick, there may be M.rel without eyespots. Only black spots without white circles. About two years ago I posted about M.rel ooth hatched 2 months after being layed, with no cold period. There were about 200 hatchlings (ooth was huge). It was brought from Crimea, Ukraine, where mantids have...

Sorry for long silence. I think, cathalepsia may be useful in these cases. 1)Quick distancing away from predator. This works when insect is positioned somewhere high above the ground, for instance, on a tree or on high grass. It just need to cuddle it's legs and fall down. Used by those who...

Fabre argues that playing dead is not playing at all, not a trick to deceive a predator, but just an involuntary reaction because of fear. Main predators of insects are birds, who (in his experiments) make no difference of picking moving insects or playing dead ones. Scarites (family Carabidae)...

It was plastic. Furthermore, it was matted. Jean Henri Fabre (french entomologist) wrote about ground beetles Scarites sp. fainting after knocking then lightly on a table, and scorpions swooning after being placed into fire circle, of which they can't escape. I think Arthropods are much...