Egg Laying Syntoms????

[agent A]

Yesterday Micake didn't eat at all, very unusuall for her. Then she started breathing real heavily and opened her ovipositor thing and 2 white tube things came out and started moving about. Then she curled down the abdomen onto something and started to move it back and forth. Then she stopped and nothing else has happened ever since except that she has been wandering around a bit. I have not really had mantids lay ooths so if some people think that this is a rediculous thing then realize that in 3+ years of experience I've only had 2 fertile egg-cases and 2 infertile egg-cases layed and only saw the end of the proccess for the 2 fertile ones. And I've had so far like, at least 14 adult female mantids in all my experience.

 

[bassist]

but seriously she's trying to find a place to lay an ootheca.

 

[agent A]

but seriously she's trying to find a place to lay an ootheca.

nice pic of the guy, anyway there are plenty of perches for egg laying in there.

 

[bassist]

She's just trying to find the right one you don't even need foliage she'll lay when she's ready unless she becomes 'egg bound' of course.

 

[massaman]

thats like my european today she did lay me a ooth but she did alot of looking around before she decided to pick a spot to lay it and had no influence on her laying it either!

 

[agent A]

So when can I expect an ooth? She started these syntoms (well not eating all day) at around 7 pm.

 

[massaman]

you do mean symptoms dont you?

The female will lay when she finds the right spot and not any sooner or later and could take a day or maybe sooner as long as she does not die or get bothered by something then she will lay one at her own pace and in her own time and whats the hurry as she will lay it it her own time not on anything elses!

You expecienced ooth laying already in one form or another but just have to remember patience is a virtue and she will produce the ooth when she finds the spot and decides its time!

 

[agent A]

you do mean symptoms dont you?The female will lay when she finds the right spot and not any sooner or later and could take a day or maybe sooner as long as she does not die or get bothered by something then she will lay one at her own pace and in her own time and whats the hurry as she will lay it it her own time not on anything elses!

You expecienced ooth laying already in one form or another but just have to remember patience is a virtue and she will produce the ooth when she finds the spot and decides its time!

sorry for the mis-spell. I hope she finds the right spot soon. She has been sitting in one spot for about an hour. Is that the spot she will lay on?

 

[Katnapper]

sorry for the mis-spell. I hope she finds the right spot soon. She has been sitting in one spot for about an hour. Is that the spot she will lay on?

Who knows. Give the poor girl some "alone" time, and quit hovering over her watching her. She's probably waiting for you to go to bed or something so she can lay in peace without your eyeballs all over her.

 

[agent A]

Who knows. Give the poor girl some "alone" time, and quit hovering over her watching her. She's probably waiting for you to go to bed or something so she can lay in peace without your eyeballs all over her.

she could have done that last night or during school!

 

[idolomantis]

Don't be so impatient...

 

[agent A]

Don't be so impatient...

you're right. I will calm down.

 

[massaman]

Just ignore her for now and dont even look her way or anything and just give her space and she will lay when she is ready and I will admit my first european who laid me my two ooths laid them even though she is above my pc monitor but I did not bother her one bit but took a few looks but other then that she laid fine!I did worry too about my chinese female but she did lay a ooth which just proved to me that she was just waiting for the right time and the right moment to lay it!

 

[massaman]

I have not really had mantids lay ooths so if some people think that this is a rediculous thing then realize that in 3+ years of experience I've only had 2 fertile egg-cases and 2 infertile egg-cases layed and only saw the end of the proccess for the 2 fertile ones.

HMM This is conflicting statements saying you never had mantids lay ooths in one statement and then in an another you only saw the end process of 2 infertiles which means you did have them lay something infertile as they were!

 

[Ntsees]

How unusual. The description of your mantid's behavior surely shows that she's about to have an oothecae. The weird thing is that she hasn't laid the oothecae yet with this amount of time. It must be the species because mines don't take this long to lay an oothecae.

 

[agent A]

How unusual. The description of your mantid's behavior surely shows that she's about to have an oothecae. The weird thing is that she hasn't laid the oothecae yet with this amount of time. It must be the species because mines don't take this long to lay an oothecae.

it's Creobroter Gemmatus.

 

[massaman]

Well I have records of when all mine lay and seems sometimes its a pattern as one of my nebulosa females first ooth - 8/27/09

and like 20ish days later second ooth - 9/16/09 and sometimes it can be random but other times its in a pattern!

Yeah one of my creobroter nebulosas is doing the very same thing as his!

 

[Ntsees]

it's Creobroter Gemmatus.

Yeah, I know. I had to go down to your "signature" to find out what mantid species Micake was. If that's how long a Creobroter gemmatus takes before it has an oothecae (if it is indeed about to have an oothecae), then I've learned something new about the species.

 

[sbugir]

Yeah, she needs alone time, my european laid an ooth while i was at school. Came home and I was like gee! Cool! An upside to my day.