BABY FOUND HATCHED INDSIDE MOTHER (Must read)

[brancsikia339]

So I was getting my yellow orchid ready to pin. She had just died a few hours prior. I began to empty the eggs when in the cluster there was a small black thing. I decided to see what it was and it turned out to be a HATCHED NYMPH! I think that this killed her. The baby was dead as well, but it is unbelievable that this happened. In a few minutes I will get my camera and take some pics

 

[hierodula]

 

[brancsikia339]

Upon closer inspection, it appears two nymphs were inside her I feel so bad. Poor girl, i wish i knew

 

[brancsikia339]

Very strange. What do you guys think????

 

[Paradoxica]

That is bizarre! I thought they don't mix the sperm and eggs until they are actually laying the ooth?!

 

[brancsikia339]

That is bizarre! I thought they don't mix the sperm and eggs until they are actually laying the ooth?!

i dunno!!! I think this is the first documented case! no wonder she wasn't laying an ooth!!!! i can only hope her other fertile eggs (which i collected from the body) hatch

 

[patrickfraser]

Was she eggbound. Maybe those were fertilized, but not laid for some reason and caused a blockage. Those fertilized eggs then incubated at the right temps and hatched internally??? Who knows for sure?

 

[brancsikia339]

Was she eggbound. Maybe those were fertilized, but not laid for some reason and caused a blockage. Those fertilized eggs then incubated at the right temps and hatched internally??? Who knows for sure?

She was eggbound for a period and then i got her a new male to mate and she mated twice. I think that possibly the baby hatched inside her, causing eggbound syndrome. But how did fertilization and a huge incubation period occur inside the body???

 

[patrickfraser]

Did she ever lay an ooth?

 

[patrickfraser]

Are we positive that those are nymphs? Maybe it's her broken hymenopus? :lol:

 

[brancsikia339]

Are we positive that those are nymphs? Maybe it's her broken hymenopus? :lol:

lol yea theyre nymphs they have the correct coloration

 

[brancsikia339]

Did she ever lay an ooth?

she layed her first ooth awhile ago

 

[patrickfraser]

Did that first ooth ever hatch?

 

[brancsikia339]

Did that first ooth ever hatch?

nope. not yet atleast

 

[hibiscusmile]

I dont see that good, but I dont think it is nymph.

 

[Mime454]

I dont see that good, but I dont think it is nymph.

Me neither. Thought I was the only one.

 

[brancsikia339]

I dont see that good, but I dont think it is nymph.

? But it has the tarsi, legs and petals! I still have it, but it's difficult to photograph. You can also see the signature dark orange body stretched in the back. It had just came out of the female, and pulling it out it kinda got a little squished and ripped apart, but as far as i can tell it's a nymph

 

[happy1892]

? But it has the tarsi, legs and petals! I still have it, but it's difficult to photograph. You can also see the signature dark orange body stretched in the back. It had just came out of the female, and pulling it out it kinda got a little squished and ripped apart, but as far as i can tell it's a nymph

Okay, we cannot see that in the picture but I trust your eye sight.

 

[gripen]

It would be a stretch in my mind to call that a nymph. Looks more like a parasite to me. Of what variety I cannot tell.