Curiosity
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Hi, um, I have two questions. I have this one ootheca that has been in the freezer for about 2.5 weeks now, and I have still been misting it. . . semi regularly. . . as I'm fairly certain I accidentally terminated some other mantis eggs by letting them dry out, and I don't want to repeat that mistake. There are frozen water droplets all over the sides of the cup. I was wondering if there is a better way to keep the egg . . . not moist, but not fatally dried out either, and, um, is there any chance that some of that water could get inside the egg and freeze into sharp ice crystals?
Less urgent problem: Last night, I removed a pair of egg cases from the wall of my house. There was a frost sometime last month, and it's snowed a couple times in the last week. . . it's not warm in Idaho anymore. I was wondering if I could just assume these ones have been in the cold long enough by now due to the weather, because I am trying to get all three of these eggs to hatch at more or less the same time.
Less urgent problem: Last night, I removed a pair of egg cases from the wall of my house. There was a frost sometime last month, and it's snowed a couple times in the last week. . . it's not warm in Idaho anymore. I was wondering if I could just assume these ones have been in the cold long enough by now due to the weather, because I am trying to get all three of these eggs to hatch at more or less the same time.
I sure hope I didn't damage them. . . 
