Empusa Pennata L1

[meaganelise9]

Ooh! They make cute babies!

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

i have always wanted these...... :blush:

 

[Precarious]

Beautiful! Can't wait to get my hands on some.

 

[Mex_Ghost]

if I´m right... I have 3 females and 5 males...... I hope I can mate them.

 

[gripen]

any updates?

 

[hibiscusmile]

yea, whats ahappenin?

 

[psyconiko]

I do not breed this species although it is easily available...I have been told so many times that without a cold period they just die or hardly pass the adult stage.

I am also curious to know what happened...I guess they just died.

But if someone know how to captivebreed those small devils I will try myself this summer.

 

[gripen]

please do. and get some to the US!

 

[ismart]

I do not breed this species although it is easily available...I have been told so many times that without a cold period they just die or hardly pass the adult stage.

I am also curious to know what happened...I guess they just died.

But if someone know how to captivebreed those small devils I will try myself this summer.

I don't think this is entirely true? A few years ago i had this species. Out of ten, seven made it to adulthood with out much of a problem. I never gave them a cold period. There were a couple with messed up wings, but for the most part all healthy. Sadly all seven turned out to be females. My only male miss molted to sub-adult. The adults are beautiful! :wub:

 

[Mex_Ghost]

Still have 4, 3 males and 1 female, they haven´t molt since september, one male is thin, the rest seems to be in good shape. They have been at room temperature, so Temperatures have been from 6°C to 18 °C in December/january, I try to feed them with domestic flies (they love flying food ), Some nymphs just died, one died cause (I think) I were on vacations for 5 or 6 days, the rest I don´t know why.

The female seems to be the hungriest of all, one male (The thin one) just catch a fly, eats a bit, and then drops the fly. I try to feed them from time to time.

I used to mist water, but they run away from the water, so I stoped misting water, but last week I took them outside my home, it was raining, and two of them started to drink the water. the other two never drank.

Later I´ll take some pics to all together.

saludos

 

[psyconiko]

I hope you could breed them.

I don't think this is entirely true? A few years ago i had this species. Out of ten, seven made it to adulthood with out much of a problem. I never gave them a cold period. There were a couple with messed up wings, but for the most part all healthy. Sadly all seven turned out to be females. My only male miss molted to sub-adult. The adults are beautiful! :wub:

Ok.Good to know this.Dry climate?

 

[Mex_Ghost]

Yeah when is not rainning like these days, we are at 30 to 40 % of RH

 

[ismart]

I hope you could breed them.

Ok.Good to know this.Dry climate?

Yes, They were kept close to 100F during the day. 70F at night. I only misted them at night when the lights went out. I never misted them directly. They would freak out badly!

 

[Vulcain]

Hi,

I'm very happy you still have nymphs alive !

Chris lost this stock

When they are adults, temperature of 30-35° C no problem, it's better for mating

A lot available for April, be patient lol. And the Rhombodera basalis, still have ?

Just like :

Best regards

 

[Mvalenz]

Beautiful mantis.

 

[Mex_Ghost]

I only have now one male oand one female, both are subadults, molted last week, it´s so crazy how.... with the warm weather they molted with only one day of difference!!!.

The Pics are from the Male.

saludos

 

[sporeworld]

Wow. Wow. Wow. OK, one more WOW!

Lovely creatures. Nice work.

 

[warpdrive]

great photos MG.

Harry