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Adult female Really special, beautiful specie.

It's a caddishfly(Trichoptera). I heard from Fisherman_Brazil that you will come to Taiwan soon. Maybe we can take another light trap together if you have enough time here :D .

Some more photos. adult female female and ootheca ootheca L1 nymph L4 nymph This specie usually take about 4 months from L1 to adult, male has 7 instars and female has 8 instars.

I don't think that they are hard to raise, but they can easily die when you forget to take care of them. Put them two or three in a cage before L3 maybe better.

All my roommates are also study in the department of entomology so that there are many insects in our room now. One of them breed termites, another is cockroaches, and I am mantids and stag beetles. breeding mantids isn't strange here, sometimes they even help me to feed them.

Christian, can this photo help you to identify it? By the way, can you send me a T. superstitiosa photo to me? Thank you very much.

Many of mantids here appear in all seasons. Although it's November now, it's still warm in Kaohsiung. I decided to go out for a mantis hunt, to collect some Mantis religiosa individuals. A L1 M. religiosa nymph appeared immediately. An adult female soon appeared, too. Then an adult male...

PhilinYuma: Your seggestion sounds interesting. I am Fisherman_Brazil's friend, a college student in the department of Entomology, I think that I can do some experiment with him, hope I can soon report the result here.

I'll visit the "National Museum of Natural Science" in Taichung in a few days, I'll ask some entomologist there, maybe I can find out which subspecies is here.

In my observation, I can always find oothecae, nymphs and adults at the same time and the same place, furthermore, adults can also be found in winter, so I think it's multiple generations in Taiwan.

I am Fisherman_Brazil's friend in Taiwan and was the person who had sent the ooth and the female to him. The female is collected in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In Taiwan , some M. religiosa individuals are without the eye spots but only with black spots on the coxa of their front legs. This female had...