Idolomantis Ootheca - Holes? normal?

MingMing · Jun 14, 2009

PhilinYuma said:
I'm easily confused, Ming Ming! Does the YOUR refer to "Lectric? I thought that you got yrs from a different source, but I guess that they could have travelled north and then south again!And PLEASE tell us how your nymphs are getting on and how you are feeding them (new thread?). I have been lighting a candle for them every night in front of the shrine, but I am running out of candles!

LOL Ok ok... the thing is, I was going to get the ooths for Dave. I never meant to start this breeding mantis thing, But well I got the ooths froom the southamerican human being -that cant be named- 3 weeks AFTER the date he settled (blaming the swine flu) but well, I finally ended up getting them. Then Dave was inda bussy with the moving and I wasnt quite sure about what to do with them (when I tried to get rid off the ooths it was too late) Soooo here I am spending 4 hours of my day to feed the lil bastards... :S The peruvians ignore me... they hate me they just turn around and look at me like saying "now what?" and the lineolas are hyperactive, they just start running and jumping.

And well, probably the ooth hatched half its way? because the peruviana ooth I got had the same holes along the "zipper line" but 20 fat black nymphs came out.

ArkBlue1614@comcast.net · Jun 14, 2009

[SIZE=14pt]1 of my Ooths had about 8 wasp hatch out of the sides, but my W C Ooths are a round kind that came from Don also. So by this post I take it that if that the wasp hatched there was food for them, so this Ooth was fresh and fertile, but how meny eggs do the wasp eat? 1 each or more?.[/SIZE]

Christian · Jun 14, 2009

The color of your posts is really annoying...

Usually, the wasps larvae eat one egg each.

pohchunyee · Jun 15, 2009

Agree......it hurt my eyes to see all these blue !!! But here is a picture of my hatched Idolomantis ooth, My ooth is slightly over an inch... it hatch last week with 26 nymphs.

lectricblueyes · Jun 15, 2009

pohchunyee said:
Agree......it hurt my eyes to see all these blue !!! But here is a picture of my hatched Idolomantis ooth, My ooth is slightly over an inch... it hatch last week with 26 nymphs.

Yep, yours is *slightly* darker than mine and you have 8-12 holes along the center at the "zipper/seam" . For me, that's the nail in the coffin.

Based on this ooth having a that many holes in a line, down the middle of the ooth... I think it's easy to assume that this is a hatched ooth. Especially if you consider it's wild.

Thanks for everyone's input. I appreciate your time.