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anyone else had major problems getting violin mantids to lay ooths. my females are definitely not happy anymore in the net cages under a light, since they mated (a doddle compared to this issue). every time i turn the light on in the morning they want to get to the light, constantly make...

Hi. I am a proud keeper of an adult female violin mantis. she's been adult for a month and has been successfully (hopefully) mated a few days ago. Ive quite a few questions about the next step in the life cycle. Here goes...when is it likely she will lay her ooth (is it more dependant on her...

hi. possible male violin mantis loan wanted, in return for a proportion of resulting progeny. or straight buy but prefer loan. i have adult female that will need mate in a couple of weeks. i have a male nymph approaching molt now, but as the casualty rate is fairly high (just lost one) im...

just got som violin mantids..... :P heres the setup so far...big glass aquarium heated by big heat mat stuck inside the back wall + 60watt light bulb. a smaller glass aquarium fits inside. i made a custom wood framed lid, with lift out hatch and feeding hole. temps are 17c with heat matt...

I think we more or less agree christian. its just wording and im more of a ruthless materialist in my outlook than you, at least in the way i word things. We have to be careful if people of a woo persuasion are not to jump to the wrong conclusion. Anyway, semantically nothing can be more than...

I realise that the output from a certain level of complexity can often 'seem' greater than what would be expected, but the question that then raises is how is that output level to complexity ratio quantified. For example, how can it be proven that mozarts brain was under or over complex for the...

An invalid assumption/starting point will just lead to more problems. You would have to argue for consiousness in bacteria and pre bacteria. A Self aware virus? What about the building blocks of life like proteins, carbohydrates or DNA? I don't think so. Put non consious chemical machines...

nice insect! well, not exactly nice, but you know what I mean. :P

not necessarily, if consiousness needs a critical amount of machine complexity. Just saying 'its alive therefore its conscious' is blatantly untrue as some life functions perfectly well without it - ie are bacteria, protozoa, plants or fungi consious ? Thats 4 kingdoms that in all probability...

hi, just spoted your reply. they were fed birch but they are not fussy and eat just about anything. catties are not hard to rear. just keep changing the fp every day or other day, or as soon as it wilts or is eaten, or they start crawling about (which means theyre not happy and want new food)...

the topic of invertebrate pain came up on this forum (WARNING site may cause extreme annoyance to certain people) http://richarddawkins.net/forum/viewtopic....f=5&t=51072 my opinion is that insects respond to the stimulous of tissue damage by following a hard wired behavioral pattern that...

ok, thanks.

hi. my ghosts are about half grown judging by number of sheds. still pretty small and doing well on ff. dont see them catching many but they mostly disappear and getting fatter (for ghosts) so maybe feed more at night but i was wondering as they are a small species, if they can survive on ff...

youve noticed. and thats just in a few yrs. bring back someone from the victorian era and they'd notice much more degradation. thats the trouble we cant see the real extent of change as our lives are too short. sorry to be the voice of doom, but we are in the 'sixth extinction' of life on...

heres a little film i took this morning. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v11/macu...ersearching.flv its of a interesting small moth called the vaporer. female has no wings (just little stumps) and male is unsual as well in flying during day. female hatches at 9am and male arrives after about...

nor could i. had two males and two females and they just couldnt join up for some reason. males tried mounting many times over at least 2 months untill they all eventually died of old age. dunno what the problem was <_<

wusses? too right. they are giving the mantis a terrible reputation :) must get some orchids or some other nasty mantis that will actually eat something more ambitious than 1 teeny weeny ff a day !! i miss my giant asian mantids (or whatever they were called). they had balls !! :lol:

as everyone else says, plus they gather around compost/recycling bins with smelly grass cuttings etc inside. any rotting veg attracts them not just fruit. if they get out in the house, use a pooter to get em. they usually sit on top of a culture trying to get in. i dont bother with flightless...

no need for any water as long as the food isnt completely dry and they have fresh food to eat- it makes their droppings sloppy and more disgusting. humidity is bad for them so definitly dont spray them !! tip- they like birch. i now feed mine this instead of grass as its easy to get (grass is...

i dunno, but i find it depressing someone will soon destroy such a fine habitat for all those creatures :( esp the small spike like insects! :mellow: