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<blockquote data-quote="Kruszakus" data-source="post: 55508" data-attributes="member: 1692"><p>Yeah, mating always accelerates the process of depositing ooths - in my case, most females of various species held on for a couple of weeks, even if power-fed and kept at high temperatures. Then, after mating - sometimes even a few hours after - they were laying their first ooths.</p><p></p><p>For example - I let my O. Distinctus eat zounds of crickets and wax moths for ten days or so, and then I introduced the male to her - it was around midnight. The next morning I checked on them, and the female had deposited her first ooth - and it was fertile.</p><p></p><p>My other Empusidae have been adult for about two weeks - no ooths so far, even though they have a nearly constant supply of food - so I'd wager the possibility, that your ooth may be fertile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kruszakus, post: 55508, member: 1692"] Yeah, mating always accelerates the process of depositing ooths - in my case, most females of various species held on for a couple of weeks, even if power-fed and kept at high temperatures. Then, after mating - sometimes even a few hours after - they were laying their first ooths. For example - I let my O. Distinctus eat zounds of crickets and wax moths for ten days or so, and then I introduced the male to her - it was around midnight. The next morning I checked on them, and the female had deposited her first ooth - and it was fertile. My other Empusidae have been adult for about two weeks - no ooths so far, even though they have a nearly constant supply of food - so I'd wager the possibility, that your ooth may be fertile. [/QUOTE]
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