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Mantid Discussions
Breeding & Nymph Care
Breeding male mantises that skipped a molt to become adult?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mystymantis" data-source="post: 342619" data-attributes="member: 9416"><p>So I have a grizzled mantis male and a ghost mantis male and I think both of them skipped a molt to become an adult. At least according to my data, because I keep a table for whenever they molt. Should I not use males that skip molts to become adults early in mating? I don't know what it does to them and if it makes them less viable or anything. It seems to me that they would be not as good as males that do the full number of molts.</p><p></p><p>I have had Carolina mantises and Chinese mantises skip molts to adulthood and they always seemed weaker then ones that didn't skip. I did not mate them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mystymantis, post: 342619, member: 9416"] So I have a grizzled mantis male and a ghost mantis male and I think both of them skipped a molt to become an adult. At least according to my data, because I keep a table for whenever they molt. Should I not use males that skip molts to become adults early in mating? I don't know what it does to them and if it makes them less viable or anything. It seems to me that they would be not as good as males that do the full number of molts. I have had Carolina mantises and Chinese mantises skip molts to adulthood and they always seemed weaker then ones that didn't skip. I did not mate them. [/QUOTE]
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Breeding male mantises that skipped a molt to become adult?
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