Hierodula sp. Pink eye

[CoolMantid]

Mine are sub-adults!

 

[brancsikia339]

me too!!! My profile pic is the female! They're so awesome. They come lemon to green yellow!

 

[CoolMantid]

I know! I really cant wait. On Wednsday I am getting 5 packages alone!

 

[brancsikia339]

5 packages? How many mantids are you getting? And what species?

 

[CoolMantid]

I ordered (For my website)

1-A sexed pair of Violins and Ghosts (Same Paackage)

2-A sexecd Pair of Hierodula majuscula

3-A sexed pair of Popa Spruca

4-Some new cages

5-Feeder food

I really cant wait!

 

[GreenOasis]

Indeed, I hope they some day make a comeback. One question- it looks to me like the belly has some pink and the eyes look blue-ish, so why call it "pink eye"?

You'll have to ask Yen about that one! I think it was him that gave them their "common name'!

 

[GreenOasis]

New free popas! Thats cool!

Ive seen Pink eyes on your website. Did chris bribe them out of you?

Reason for Edit: Removing perceived "unsolicited personal attack(s)."

 

[agent A]

Yikes! How do u just send someone an ooth without knowing wat laid it? Anyways my multispina have a tiny red dot on the bottom of the thorax and black rings at the bases of their eyes, especially my male

Much bolder color scheme than membranacea, same with the pink eye and majuscula species

 

[CoolMantid]

Yes, he did...promising to give me some "cool, new species"...one of them was Blue Flashes...which I already HAD!...the other was the "Sphodromantis sp." that I still can't identify the exact species! He sent me about 8 of the Blue Flashes & 12 of the Sphodros...no labels, nothing indicating whether he even had a CLUE as to what they were. (I don't think he did, because I ASKED him & he never responded about it, just rambled about other stuff!) The Blue Flashes I could identify at around L3/L4, but the others, I had to wait till they were adults, and they still don't look like anything I've ever seen. He also send an ooth...to replace an earlier ooth that didn't hatch. Guess what? The second one didn't either! (Don't know the species on THAT one, either!)

Wow. I hope he realized what he did. SO he killed the beloved Pink Eyes

 

[GreenOasis]

Why would he kill the pink eyes?

Reason for Edit: Removing perceived "unsolicited personal attack(s)."

 

[gripen]

now aparently he is keeping toxodera idolomorph and bicornis. makes you wonder how truthful he really is...

 

[GreenOasis]

Popas make WAY more nymphs than Gambians. Even though the Gambians lay ooths more frequently. Gambians lay ooths about every 10-14 days, and each ooth hatches between 8 (older ooths) & 30 (new, young females' ooths).

Popas will lay ooths about every 21 days, but even their small ooths hatch between 50-80 nymphs! (And they lay just about as many ooths as Gambians.) So, from one female Popa, you can easily have hundreds of babies in her lifetime, Gambians, you will get about 100 or so babies throughout their lifetime.

Also, Popas are not that cannibalistic. I feed my young nymphs (sparingly, mynd you!) every 2-3 days, and they STILL don't eat each other! I don't believe they start to turn very cannibalistic until they reach L4/L5...and then it will usually be females turning on the smaller, less aggressive males. (If you separate the males from the females, you will end up with quite a few males in the end. i.e. NO MALE SHORTAGE!)

In my experience, Gambians are way less tolerant of food shortages than the Popas. Just one day without enough food to go around and they are stalking each other.

 

[agent A]

Good to hear

My female seems about to lay infertile ooth and male is still subadult so I'm glad they r more prolific

I love popa!!! Even though they grow slowly it is well worth it

 

[GreenOasis]

now aparently he is keeping toxodera idolomorph and bicornis. makes you wonder how truthful he really is...

Reason for Edit: Removing perceived "unsolicited personal attack(s)."

 

[GreenOasis]

Yikes! How do u just send someone an ooth without knowing wat laid it? Anyways my multispina have a tiny red dot on the bottom of the thorax and black rings at the bases of their eyes, especially my male

Much bolder color scheme than membranacea, same with the pink eye and majuscula species

Reason for Edit: Removing perceived "unsolicited personal attack(s)."

 

[gripen]

makes you think doesnt it.

 

[CoolMantid]

I still have that urge to here his side of the story!

 

[happy1892]

Popas make WAY more nymphs than Gambians. Even though the Gambians lay ooths more frequently. Gambians lay ooths about every 10-14 days, and each ooth hatches between 8 (older ooths) & 30 (new, young females' ooths).

Popas will lay ooths about every 21 days, but even their small ooths hatch between 50-80 nymphs! (And they lay just about as many ooths as Gambians.) So, from one female Popa, you can easily have hundreds of babies in her lifetime, Gambians, you will get about 100 or so babies throughout their lifetime.

Also, Popas are not that cannibalistic. I feed my young nymphs (sparingly, mynd you!) every 2-3 days, and they STILL don't eat each other! I don't believe they start to turn very cannibalistic until they reach L4/L5...and then it will usually be females turning on the smaller, less aggressive males. (If you separate the males from the females, you will end up with quite a few males in the end. i.e. NO MALE SHORTAGE!)

In my experience, Gambians are way less tolerant of food shortages than the Popas. Just one day without enough food to go around and they are stalking each other.

Gambians lay an ooth every three or four days when they are fed a lot and the temperature is about 100 degrees.

 

[happy1892]

Who is chris?

 

[happy1892]

GreenOasis do you know how long female Gambians live as adults?