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Lu has died RIP It was fun........

All signs point to her pulling a Charlotte. Only time will tell. LOL :lol: "pulling a Charlotte" I gotta use that one! Cheers

LU has cast her third oothecae and this one is much smaller than the previous two. Any ideas or experiences on Chinese ooth size and ability to deliver nymphs? I attach for your viewing pleasure my photobucket homage to LU my pet: http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z1/lion...nt=93c4695b.pbr...

For clarity: At 8:00 PM my family was shopping at a large strip mall with a lot of parking and parking lights. We found two beetles. (They gave off the stink defense as we bagged them in a shopping plastic sack.) We could have collected many more. Drove 6 miles to a grocery and my son and I...

Something is occuring for this species in our area. They are exceedingly common at night under street lamps. This morning the whole set we collected seemed to have lost control of their back legs and went turtle up (stuck on their backs). Also in the daylight many of these could also be found...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/389 These Green Beetles are everywhere in South Kansas City Area. My son and I collected 6 in less than 10 minutes. We could have had many if we wanted to continue collecting. Are they "keepable" as a species. Bug net says adults will over winter. However how...

Hi Hi bisucus :rolleyes: , You did reply. I wanted to post the addie of the place my mantids may have come from to see if I had any genetic offspring of anyone (including you) on this group. You and I where discussing this in my thread about keeping a Chinese Mantid named LU... Thanks, (so...

Where do Garden Centers get their ooth's? I bought some oothecae from a garden center in the Kansas City, Missouri area. The label reads Garden Ladys- 541-584-2756. PO Box 502 Elkton, OR 97436. Both ooth hatched and at the time I didn't know enough about care, housing, feeding, to catch and...

You are right. When I catured it it made some "evasive" moves that where similar to "clicking" I have heard "click" beetle and made that mistaken id. This beetle is supposed to eat insects? Do you know what kind? It has killed a cricket but it doesn't look eaten. Will these eat dead...

Lu has cast her second oothecae. I say "cast" because to me it is like a spider casting a web or is it spinning an ooth? or laying eggs? Got my copy of "Keeping Aliens" book from Elytra and Antenna. I am thinking of keeping to the Chinese Mantids because of the local availability. I have made...

NO not it. :blink: Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles) Subfamily Scaritinae Tribe Scaritini Genus Scarites Did I say Cebrionid? I meant to say Carabidae. LOL What a hoot. I looked at your profile to see were you are. I have heard what I found called a click bug but it really isn't...

I tried to keep my Chinese from casting another oothaca on the lid by putting in willow branches into the keeper. after a few days of misting the leaves where fermenting and smelled bad. I went back to nothing and then back to twigs w/o leaves. I use no substrate but do include sticks from...

budforever what sort of bat is that in your avatar. I sit and watch that and wonder what in the world? Is it a deliberate throw.... Ken

Found a really shiny black click beetle yesterday. The thing is hinged in the middle and will click to upright itself when tipped over. Has some deadly looking pincers on the mouth. Any comments on keeping these or what it may be called in your area. KEN

:( Hello forum, Can a mantis oothaca survive a fogging from an aerosol room fogger? All insects where moved out of the room but I had the first oothaca in a "cricket"keeper plastic container on my dresser. The cricket keepr had holes on the lid. I had to fog the house because we are overrun...

I was going to relate this story in my Continuing post about my Chinese mantid but this is a better place.... Flying Story: Lu, my Chinese is starting to slow down a little and I was hoping she was okay so I put her on the patio screen door on the inside to let her have room to move around. I...

SIX ooths :o This is my second Chinese and I have only had one ooth the first time and I am hoping for more on this critter. We have so much fun with her. I am taking her to a school today to see a teacher interested in entymology. Hopefully we will have more ooths for next year. I am...

GIANT MANTIS Attacks the Castle!! I cleaned Lu's cage and the oothaca can off the wall of the plastic critter keeper immediatley. I gently pushed the ooth off of the grilled lid and was able to get it completely undistrubed off of the cage. I am thinking of putting it in my kitchen window...

Dang! totally forgot hermit crabs. My office mate used to make fun of me because I bought my kids a hermit crab when they asked for a dog! (that was in the "no" dogs allowed days of my marriage.) Now that's funny. Have you ever tried to teach a hermit crab to fetch? and then one day my wife...