Finally! Adult Idolomantis!

[Andrew]

A big beautiful male, molted this morning. I can only imagine how big the females will be!

Now just gotta wait for him to green up.

 

[Katnapper]

Wow... congrats, Andrew! He's beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing his pic with us! Neat.

 

[hibiscusmile]

WoW! u the man!

 

[ABbuggin]

Nice! How many males and females do you have?

 

[yen_saw]

Congrate Andrew, worth the wait My male lives from 2 to 4 months so you have plenty of time to wait for an adult female, hope you will soon have your female. I remember my first female is just 2 weeks after the first adult male when kept in the same condition. I would increase humidity now and also after female produce the ootheca. Increasing humidity seems to "encourage" last molt and ootheca to hatch too. But for now, all the best for a smooth molting on all your female idolo.

 

[Andrew]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Nice! How many males and females do you have?

4 males, 2 females. I'm very happy with the way that turned out.

Congrate Andrew, worth the wait My male lives from 2 to 4 months so you have plenty of time to wait for an adult female, hope you will soon have your female. I remember my first female is just 2 weeks after the first adult male when kept in the same condition. I would increase humidity now and also after female produce the ootheca. Increasing humidity seems to "encourage" last molt and ootheca to hatch too. But for now, all the best for a smooth molting on all your female idolo.

Thanks, definitely worth the wait. All of mine seemed to molt to subadult at different times, but then again I didn't keep track very well.

I'll measure the humidity and see what I can do about raising it a bit. Thanks for the tips.

 

[MantidLord]

It's about time jk: Congratulations dude.

 

[a1_collection]

Beautiful. Congrats on the molt.

 

[Anleoflippy]

OMG, it looks huge...

I wonder how the big the female will be...

anyway nice mantis and congratz...