I can't find them anywhere .....

[sally]

I released my L4, and L5 T. sinensis Friday in great weather. There was about 65 more or less. I put them in the high grasses and around bushes, pretty much everywhere spread out nicely. Today I can't find even 1. Are they that good at hiding or...BIRDS!!!! I won't give up looking.

 

[D_Hemptress]

i let some of my stagmos go, and i didnt see them the next day. but a week later i t practically in the same place that i had released it. so i think they are really good at hiding

 

[SilentDeviL]

Birds got them lol

 

[jrh3]

i snuck over and caught them lol

 

[aNisip]

They're most likely hiding sally, they don't want to be seen... maybe a bird got one or two of them...but chances are they are hiding...

 

[lancaster1313]

Around here, it is the well manicured lawns and anoles that make it hard for me to find any of my releases. I am in a bad mantis spot. Once I saw ants carrying my nymphs around.

 

[Rick]

Good at hiding unless you have a trained eye and even then it can take awhile to find even one. They also disperse much further than you realize.

 

[sally]

Good at hiding unless you have a trained eye and even then it can take awhile to find even one. They also disperse much further than you realize.

Good! Hopefully I will see some at mating time like last season

 

[sally]

Birds got them lol

Ha! I am hoping for the best. All that time and work and flies... I hope some made it.

 

[sally]

Around here, it is the well manicured lawns and anoles that make it hard for me to find any of my releases. I am in a bad mantis spot. Once I saw ants carrying my nymphs around.

Ugh... ants, anoles, and angry, (or maybe really full and happy) BIRDS.

 

[aNisip]

Around here, it is the well manicured lawns and anoles that make it hard for me to find any of my releases. I am in a bad mantis spot. Once I saw ants carrying my nymphs around.

Seconded.

 

[ScienceGirl]

Yep, they'll hide very well, and will disperse.

The farther away they are from their fellow nymphs, the higher their chances of surviving to adulthood. Less nymphs around = higher chances of being eaten, and a lower chance of being the nymph that catches the food.