fertile ooth?

[Utopia93]

In my shcool courtyard there have been tons of feamle mantisies running around tryign to fidn a place to lay eggs. I found an ooth myf riend showed me. It is a chinese ooth. How can I tell if it fertile. Supposedly tehre are tons of matnises in teh courtyard.

 

[Ben.M]

You cant really, the only to find out is to wait and see if it hatches

 

[OGIGA]

Yeah, you can't tell by looking. Chances are, though, it is probably fertile. Nature probably already did its job by now.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Yept I have to agree, most wild ones are assumedly to be fertile, take it inside and put in container, and spray it every other day with warm water, in about 6 weeks you will see it hatch, I almost guarantee it.

 

[Ben.M]

Yept I have to agree, most wild ones are assumedly to be fertile, take it inside and put in container, and spray it every other day with warm water, in about 6 weeks you will see it hatch, I almost guarantee it.

It depends when it was laid, if it was laid 6 weeks ago then it could hatch now

 

[hogosha]

I found a couple of Chinese mantis oothes this weekend too.

One is so light it seems like it's empty. The twig it was on broke and I found it on the ground under the bush. The other was eye-level and on a branch.

These are the first oothes I've handled so I wasn't sure how they should feel. The one that was on the ground is so light the light breeze blowing moved it a couple feet.

Could this one be already hatched from the spring and it is still around? Do they usually last the summer after hatching?

I'm putting both in a tank to see if anything happens. Got nothing to lose. :lol:

 

[Rick]

I found a couple of Chinese mantis oothes this weekend tone is so light it seems like it's empty. The twig it was on broke and I found it on the ground under the bush. The other was eye-level and on a branch.

These are the first oothes I've handled so I wasn't sure how they should feel. The one that was on the ground is so light the light breeze blowing moved it a couple feet.

Could this one be already hatched from the spring and it is still around? Do they usually last the summer after hatching?

I'm putting both in a tank to see if anything happens. Got nothing to lose. :lol:

Ooths are light. They hatch in the spring but if you take them indoors they will hatch in 4-6 weeks or so.

 

[Mantida]

Generally, hatched ooths have little strings branching out from the bottom or tiny holes in the bottom. And yes, most ooths are very light.

 

[hogosha]

Ooths are light. They hatch in the spring but if you take them indoors they will hatch in 4-6 weeks or so.

Hmm. Ok. I need to put some netting on top of that tank then to keep the critters in. Hopefully then don't hatch too soon. I ordered a few ghosts and want to get acclimated with them before dealing with the newborns. Perhaps I should put the oothes in my window till spring? Might be too much to handle with the new ghosts and a bunch of new chinese mantids.

Dang. It appears I also found some poison ivy while finding those oothecae... Now where did I put that Calamine Lotion?