Hatching during shipment...grrrr

[Morpheus uk]

Have they coloured up yet?

 

[macro junkie]

Morpheus uk - how big are yours now?pics please

 

[yen_saw]

Actually i have female matured into adult couple of days ago, which is only just 12 days since the first adult male matured, so cooling down the male is not necessary at all. Infact, i still have few subadult male left, but most other male has matured into adult. The color on wings (adult male) has shown up Morpheus, it is beautiful I didn't measure the size MJ, wouldn't want my room filled up with all the flies However, i did take a short movie clip when two of my adult female just moulted out right, and for that i had at least 20 flies escaped

 

[macro junkie]

hehehehe u make me laugh..so,do u send your son on a flying catching mission?

 

[idolomantis]

hehehehe u make me laugh..so,do u send your son on a flying catching mission?

haha thats mission impossible.... believe me...

 

[Matthewtinnion]

This reminds me of my troubles with the flys, I have a ninja cat who takes care of a few but its left up to me and the chop stick (mr Miagi style) for the rest, oh and any off the recent Giant asian escapees living on the ceiling.

Oh and btw if your gonna breed crickets and some one tells you that you dont need a lid for the container, aslong as they cant jump out... dont listen to them, they are very capable of flying at adult, hance me flat/cat being full of them.

Im not sure if this is too big, sorry...

 

[idolomantis]

This reminds me of my troubles with the flys, I have a ninja cat who takes care of a few but its left up to me and the chop stick (mr Miagi style) for the rest, oh and any off the recent Giant asian escapees living on the ceiling.Oh and btw if your gonna breed crickets and some one tells you that you dont need a lid for the container, aslong as they cant jump out... dont listen to them, they are very capable of flying at adult, hance me flat/cat being full of them.

Im not sure if this is too big, sorry...

wow your cat looks exactly the same as mine!

 

[acerbity]

Now it's a full blown cat off!

 

[LadyBug]

ah riki the cricket/fly muncher! he doesn't really eat the big crickets tho, just disables them.

:lol: love the cat in the tie! :lol:

 

[macro junkie]

cool cats

 

[idolomantis]

we better can start a new topic: our cats

 

[acerbity]

I'll see your two cats and raise you my cat in a lion costume:

This topic has been derailed!

 

[yen_saw]

Oh boy!! lots of cute "meow" here :lol: that's probably what i need too to get rid of all escape flies, but in the process i might lose all my mantis too i have a stick mantis stepped and chewed to death by a friend's cat, i think cat has an instinct to pounce on any moving object smaller than itself.

Just an update, i have more adult pairs now and still keeping them together, mismoulting on the last moult is still an issue, i have 30-40% that couldn't make it or with messed up wings but the rest are doing alright, still have some subadult left and still keeping them together, no cannibalism witness. I'm checking them few times a day and hopefully there is mating in near future.

 

[robo mantis]

Sounds like it! You are having a lot of luck with them!!!

 

[joossa]

Can't wait to read about them once they mate.

Good job!

 

[Morpheus uk]

Wheres the coloured up pics? :mellow:

 

[yen_saw]

Sorry Morpheus i haven't had a chance to take the pic on them recently, mainly don't wanna disturb them and try not to let my already bugs infested room fill up with more flies But honestly, they appear to be very clumpsy walking on any other surface except for stick so don't wanna mess up their legs.

 

[drizzt]

 

[macro junkie]

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we should start up a thread called cats cause where ruining yens thread..

bro,..your cat is identical to mine.is it lazy like mine and talks alot?

 

[yen_saw]

No problem, although i am sure cat and idolomantis don't get along together, i don't mind the cat stays on this thread B)