Anyone hatched a recently laid S. Limbata Ooth yet?

[cloud jaguar]

my original female, who is still looking hale and hearty and had the pleasure (?) of seeing her offspring from the only ooth of hers that I wintered outside under normal conditions.

Phil, it would appear that among those of us keeping S. Limbatas, your ooth kept outside is the first to hatch under normal outdoor conditions. Indeed spring must come early to Arizona! Or did you bring it inside to incubate after wintereing it outside?

Inspired by your post I just checked our outside ooths and none have yet hatched. Probably soon though so I will look regularly at them.

~Arkanis

 

[yeatzee]

Two more ooths hatched today....the last of em. All laid by my females have hatched. I put one ooth that I witnessed having its first nymph hatch outside. Weather has been nice, but they really don't have a chance.

I also got several L5's today but all mis-molted except one. That one is now dead because i accidently killed it :angry:

Hope the rest do ok

 

[PhilinYuma]

Phil, it would appear that among those of us keeping S. Limbatas, your ooth kept outside is the first to hatch under normal outdoor conditions. Indeed spring must come early to Arizona! Or did you bring it inside to incubate after wintereing it outside? Inspired by your post I just checked our outside ooths and none have yet hatched. Probably soon though so I will look regularly at them.

~Arkanis

Your second guess was correct. The first ooth was from a wild specimen, laid in captivity. It hatched within a few days of being brought indoors. The second was a wild ooth which hatched indoors after ten days indoors, a much more successful hatch than the first. The nymphs, though tiny (of course ) appear to be a little larger than their predecessors and are much more lively.

But that doesn't tell us about ooths actually hatched outdoors. Our current highs here are about 85F, but the low tonight will be only 59F. I shall take one ooth out (to its great confusion, no doubt) and let it hatch outdoors. It will be interesting to see when that occurs.

 

[kamakiri]

Finally have my first adult! Well, she's still pumping up the wings, but everything seems normal so far and she's out of the old exo, hanging 'face up'.

I didn't want to disturb her with the flash...so I'll post pictures later. Prior to the molt she was pink/camo and the wing buds were yellow (for the last couple of days).

 

[cloud jaguar]

Finally have my first adult! Well, she's still pumping up the wings, but everything seems normal so far and she's out of the old exo, hanging 'face up'. I didn't want to disturb her with the flash...so I'll post pictures later. Prior to the molt she was pink/camo and the wing buds were yellow (for the last couple of days).

Nice! I best be on the lookout for swollen wing buds!

Interested to know what the pink camo adult color morph is!

~Arkanis

 

[kamakiri]

Pre-molt:

Finally got her wings!

 

[cloud jaguar]

nice one!

 

[yeatzee]

Just thought I'd post one of my smaller girls, since i havent posted here in a little while.

 

[kamakiri]

Cool. So I guess you got that macro lens?

 

[yeatzee]

Just got it yesterday

 

[Katnapper]

Just got it yesterday

Yaaay!! Congrats! So...... you know we will all be expecting nice new pics now, right?!! :lol:

 

[yeatzee]

yea, yea

 

[kamakiri]

One of the batch I got from Paul:

 

[kamakiri]

I finally have a couple of my females mated. So with any luck Vanessa and Marge are fertilized. Lost a couple of males as a result - Mr. Roast Beef, and Gus.

Mr. Chicken hung on for dear life for two days, even though mating was done in about 3 hours. I helped him escape with a squeeze of his thorax and he let go.

Fred has done the opposite (afaik) mounted Cherisse for over 24 hours, but doubt they have coupled.

Barbie died still subadult (L7)...I think the barfing episode did her in, despite the apparent recovery.

Most of the 'new' batch are L5 for now.

 

[Katnapper]

I finally have a couple of my females mated. So with any luck Vanessa and Marge are fertilized. Lost a couple of males as a result - Mr. Roast Beef, and Gus. Mr. Chicken hung on for dear life for two days, even though mating was done in about 3 hours. I helped him escape with a squeeze of his thorax and he let go.

Fred has done the opposite (afaik) mounted Cherisse for over 24 hours, but doubt they have coupled.

Barbie died still subadult (L7)...I think the barfing episode did her in, despite the apparent recovery.

Most of the 'new' batch are L5 for now.

Love your names, Kamakiri!

 

[kamakiri]

Love your names, Kamakiri!

Glad someone does!

...Too bad Cherisse ate Fred last night He was still trying to connect when I went to bed, so I thought I'd just leave him.

Mr. Spam is scheduled for a date next!

 

[cloud jaguar]

Kamakiri, we have one adult pink female and an adult green male - how long should we mate after they become adults before we mate them?

Also, how is the krinkle wing count coming? Any clearer idea on the cause of this - appears about 1/2 of our male S. Limbatas have this. My wife thinks that it may be from an all cricket diet. If this is true it would be odd since we feed our crix oats, dogfood, and leafy greens.

~arkanis

 

[kamakiri]

Kamakiri, we have one adult pink female and an adult green male - how long should we mate after they become adults before we mate them?Also, how is the krinkle wing count coming? Any clearer idea on the cause of this - appears about 1/2 of our male S. Limbatas have this. My wife thinks that it may be from an all cricket diet. If this is true it would be odd since we feed our crix oats, dogfood, and leafy greens.

~arkanis

10 days minimum so far for the 'successful' males. Two weeks would probably be safe, but at three weeks, they seem to mount quicker.

For the krinkle wings, the count is 6 and 6, one of the L7 males died...so that's it. I am now concerned that the problem is genetic since you are having the same problem too. Can't rule out the crix diet, as that is my main feed too. How many males do you have? Thanks for chiming in on this. Makes me less worried that it's just me!

EDIT:

I must be having accounting problems...too many male limbata!

Okay, it's supposed to be 6 normal and 7 krinkle.

1 krinkle eaten

2 normal eaten

still have 4 normal and 6 krinkle adults

1 L7 died

 

[kamakiri]

Marge:

Gus:

Marge and poor Gus...warning, kinda gross:

Clicky / Warning!

Cherisse and Fred:

 

[Katnapper]

Neither Fred or Gus had very good luck with the girls, did they? :mellow: