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Unfortunately, no, there was no way to prevent it. I had water and shade and etc in the enclosures, along with plenty of food for my weekend absence--but there was no way for me to predict my A/C would go out, nor to be able to fix it when I was four hours away. le sigh. Liz

Some of you may have seen the heat waves that have been hitting the Midwest USA. Apparently, when I went away for a weekend, my A/C went out and the bug room soared to 115 degrees.... Everything died but one hidden ooth under a leaf, and the java shield male. He's doing well, enjoying an...

Most definitely. I live in midwestern OK and we have them. I've raised several that I wild-caught.

This is almost irony. I have a java shield male and female--the male molted easily, no problems, happily an adult now. My female had a mishap early on in which she lost two back legs. I nursed her carefully through two more molts until she got her legs back. She was due for her molt to adult...

A one night stand, eh? ;) It's still amazing to me the dimorphism in their sizes. I wonder what advantage is gives for the male to be small compared to the female. Liz

One of my mantids -- a java shield -- had an unfortunate incident with school glue. Lost one hind leg completely and half of the middle leg on the other side as an L5/L6. <_< She's now getting ready to molt to an adult, with nearly perfect legs. (one leg is back, the other one half...

One word: Awesome. B) I love the red and blue leopard spots. Here's hoping it'll last all the way to adult. I really want to see their wings if that color holds. :D

I'm currently in love with Java Shields. Beautiful, spunky, and easy. But I do have a soft spot for Chinese too. Something about watching a huge mantis molt into something even bigger, and take out a roach nearly as big as itself, is awesome. Course I've always been partial to sharks and tigers...

Awesome. :) The more ooths the better, since there's such a high death rate for the nymphs. 3 fertile ones so far then. Liz

That is one of the creepiest bugs I've ever seen.... But so awesomely cool. B)

I have an adult Chinese female. Recently, I mated her multiple times and managed to get two ooths. (3 times before the first ooth, 2 times before the second ooth) In an unfortunate ah....mishap :rolleyes: she ate her companions and has been a widow for the last two weeks or so. I did...

Awesome. Pretty much sums it up. B)

I don't use fruit either. with my Petsmart card, I get these: http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753954 So far, it's worked wonders. I've got food, water, and vitamins in cubes that last pretty long time. You just have to mist them occasionally as they dry out. (which, if...

took me a minute too. If you click on the pic, it takes you to the photobucket site with the video. :) Liz

With my Chinese I used a bamboo skewer. I kept her raptor claws pinned flat to the screen top while I laid my male on her back, until she relaxed. I've also seen in this forum people using paper cones (kind of like how vets use on dogs to keep them from reaching their stitches) to keep her...

Ordered housefly pupae from Carey. The shipment arrived promptly and, since she had issues with the housefly pupae, she sent along both housefly maggots AND BB pupae to make up for it. Awesome. :)

I think it's called a Brown Recluse spider here in the US. At least here in the midwestern OK it is as far as I know. Gotta watch out for them while cleaning out basements and the like. *shiver* :o

I did the research (and it was more than ten minutes on Google, excuse me) And in the book the quote there was used to try to prove the idea of bubble or multiple universes, which seems ludicrous/grasping straws. But I can't change people's mind any more than they can change mine. Believe...

Just wanted to point out, politely, that I don't believe in evolution either. And not just "blind faith". I spent over a year studying it to prove evolution was right, and couldn't. Couple of examples stood out to me. If the Earth was as old as they predict, oil would not gush the way it...

LOL. :rolleyes: