mantisboy
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So, yes the Ooths have arrived as my Big Girl Goliath laid hers on a stick in her housing about a week ago which I stored in a closet....I can only describe it as a beautiful loaf of bread. After multiple discussions and a little brow beating, my little darling Latifah has also laid 1 and 1/2 an Ooth. Unlike Goliath, Latifah decided the sticks in her housing were not satisfactory for laying her Ooths, as such laid 1/2 an Ooth in the top side corner of her housing, then fell, and laid a full Ooth the following day along the side of her housing.
I gave her Ooths 2 days to harden and they were easily removed with a razor blade. I do not want any Ooths to hatch with nymphs until spring so I placed them in a deli Cup, placed the deli cup into a ziploc bag and placed into the refrigerator.
Question: How long will the Ooths keep in the refrigerator, how do I protect them from drying out, did I just damage the Ooths by doing something wrong? Once winter hits Boise it will not return to even the low 50's until May 1st.
I was going to put them in an open container, place that container into a paper grocery bag along with a seperate open container of wetted paper towels for moisture. Then leave it all in my garage, but the weather this year has been freakish. One day the high will 104, the next 64 with lows in the 40's, the next in the mid-80's. I've read diapause with Religiosas takes a couple of weeks, but I have also read that Ooths hatched after a very short time of cooler evening temps followed by higher temps.
I gave her Ooths 2 days to harden and they were easily removed with a razor blade. I do not want any Ooths to hatch with nymphs until spring so I placed them in a deli Cup, placed the deli cup into a ziploc bag and placed into the refrigerator.
Question: How long will the Ooths keep in the refrigerator, how do I protect them from drying out, did I just damage the Ooths by doing something wrong? Once winter hits Boise it will not return to even the low 50's until May 1st.
I was going to put them in an open container, place that container into a paper grocery bag along with a seperate open container of wetted paper towels for moisture. Then leave it all in my garage, but the weather this year has been freakish. One day the high will 104, the next 64 with lows in the 40's, the next in the mid-80's. I've read diapause with Religiosas takes a couple of weeks, but I have also read that Ooths hatched after a very short time of cooler evening temps followed by higher temps.
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