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Hi. Hello everyone. I am a member from over 10 years ago user namer 'nympho'. i used to post a lot on this forum but i got into keeping moths and spiders and stopped keeping mantids. for years subsequent to being a forum member here i posted on bugnation, under user name agrius I was just...

hi. just wondering if anyone breeds these in the US? thanks

hi. i havnt been on the forum for a while, so i hope its ok to post in this section. just had a alot of gemmatus ooths hatch at once so need to thin them out quickly. hense i am selling batches of 20 nymphs for £10 plus £3.65 p&p! i expect most ppl will know what these are, ie a lovely...

Hi. ive just had two orchid ooths hatch out, but im not as pleased as i should be cos i got only 8 nymphs from one and 7 from the other! they were the first ooths laid by two separate females which were mated by different males, and kept in seperate tubs at about 20c and reasonable humidity. i...

need a male of this flower beetle urgently to service ( B) ) my female. loaned in preference, or buy. cheers

i have a big cage full of about 200 first and second instar violin mantid nymphs. it is about 60cm x 60cm and about 35cm tall, and its covered with white cotton sheet. nearly all the mantids hang from the top and a few on the sides. the cage works really well apart from a huge issue with...

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...

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...

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...

anyone keep these amazing animals. where would you get them in the uk -never seen any for sale. are they hard to look after? ive heard they are considered a pest in aquariums, but cant belive ppl would rather keep fish than these awesome critters! theyve got to be the kings of the invert...

hi, i have eyed hawkmoth (willow, sallow, apple), lime hawkmoth (lime tree, elm), american moon moth (birch), chinese oak silk moth ova/larvae (oak, apple etc etc) now, and hopefully tree of heaven silkmoth (privet) and privet hawk moth (privet, ash, lilac) in a month if they hatch/mate. let me...

hi. i bought a ghost ooth about five weeks ago. it was expensive. i asked seller care instructions but they didnt send any so i kept at 25c and humid. so far no sign of life. getting worried and a bit pissed off to be honest. how long do they take to hatch -i read about a month? what would you...

cant find a post on this so thought id start one. i read they guard ooths but i think as they dont move around much they just look like they are. my female gambian has laid 4 ooths now in the same place of the tub, and always sits next to them. but is she guarding them? against what; they look...

this beauty hatched today. a female indian moon moth. its an easy to rear species of saturnid moth (apart from pairing which can be a bit tricky). caterpillers feed on fruit trees and hawthorn.

hi. looking for advice from someone who keeps locusts. my colony of 25 adult desert locusts have matured at last and theres been quite a bit of mating going on, but the mated females are showing no interested in the big vase of damp sand i provided. i thought they were supposed to lay their eggs...

hi, i have 1 adult female gambian mantis (a very tiny but beautiful mantis with pointy alien eyes and red hind wings and abdomen as adult) and ive tried mating her with 2 males now. the problem is that both males didnt seem to actually link up, they just search around with the end of their...

thought i'd post some pics of the small fabric cage i made for some baby 'gambian' mantids. it was a bugger to make but the mantids seem much happier than in the crappy plastic sweet jar they were in before. even the fruit flies seem happy -for a while anyway ;) looks really good back lit...

beautiful clear pics. the best ive seen of a hatching ooth.