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I started documenting when my females lay ooths. They lay an ooth every 3 weeks like clockwork. Give it a try :)

Swing and a miss, Alex. Olga was pointing out that the breeder has a better idea of what sex the mantid is than you do. Please take the forum's advice & stop embarrassing yourself.

A mantid will drop whatever it is eating as soon as it realises it is bad for it. And that's usually pretty quick.

Poisoned mosquitoes & gnats wouldn't have killed the nymphs. The LD50 of any insecticide is very low for these insects (i.e. they are highly sensitive). If they were to come into contact with a poison & survive, the amount ingested by the nymphs would be negligible.

So, what's going on? Are they lying on their sides or chilling on the side of your container?

Woops, sorry! Better luck next time, mate.

Olga's right :) I've had adult mantids (Stagmomantis size) eat mosquitoes! Although you'd probably have to pump more Drosophila into the enclosure than you would bluebottles.

Not at all. It just depends on what tone you use to convey your argument. If you're going to go off topic & start attacking the person with snide remarks, that's bad. We wouldn't have come all this way without arguing

Let's just put this topic to bed, shall we? Congrats on the recovery, Khori!

I'm pretty sure that all Dipterans are non-toxic. Maybe you just caught one that landed in something funky. Plenty of water will help eliminate whatever she ingested.

ROFL

Loco na membrana :lol:

Drop the hate man!

Oh dear! Prof. Google will lose his job at this rate :D He always informs me to open my textbook at Wikipedia.

Don't you mean 'Macquarie High.' Great for Ancient History & pot :D

I was thinking of posting something like this. Well, great minds do think alike :lol: My favourite mantid that I own is my eldest adult female Pseudomantis albofimbriata. The species I'm liking most at the moment is Neomantis australis

About one year from hatch to end of adulthood. The scientific name for the Vietnamese Stick Insect is Medauroidea extradentata. The Vietnamese Spiny Stick Insect is Neohirasea maerens.

I think they look cool. They're called 'Leaf-Winged/Net-Winged Mantids.' They are about the same size as Snake Mantids (see: 'Australian Species' in Mantid Photos) except they have these huge dappled wings, almost like a turtle shell. They are also one of the few mantids that hunts nocturnally.

Good question, massaman. It's been playing on my mind as well. So, the spermatophore is sustained in the female like male gonads, huh? Does that mean a mated female is pseudo-hermaphroditic? I like Rick's thinking. Play it safe. Renew the seeds left on the shelf, so to speak.

That was a very informative article. I reminisced about the good old days when Mozzie the Purple Winged Mantid was alive, the one with the massive goolies :lol: & he was very much to the left, like most human men too, I believe. I know I've set myself up once again but don't you dare...