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I made it myself from a pic I took of my lonely L4 male Ghost. I love how he looks, and I think he's going to be a supermodel before I get done with him, lol. You know, I think I just came up with a name for him.... "Superman!" 
Agreed. I'm more interested in knowing how much may be displaced and if ooths can have multiple fathers.
Me too. Is there any information on studies like this? Or has no one done this kind of research on mantids, as they are not an insect of "concern" (pest that needs attention)?
Why do you want to know about multiple fathers/ooth? Is this a legal issue? Visitation rights?
I'm not too hot on my physiology and anatomy, so i don't know the mechanism in which the female uses to utilize the stored spermatophore (packet of sperms) within her spermatheca (where the female stores the sperms). I dont see how two males can not be the father of an ootheca, as an ootheca encases many eggs, which all needs to be fertilised by a sperm. Although which male's sperms the female uses when multiply mated is rather interesting. If i remember rightly, Geoff Parker suggested that sperms from different males are freely and randomly mixed together, like a raffle, the more tickets you buy (the more sperm you deposit) the higher the likelihood of you winning (fertilising an egg with your own sperm). I'm not sure which organism her used to based this theory on, although other studies have been done on artificially inseminating chickens with more than one male's sperms and using dna-assays to test for paternity. It was suggested that sperms from multiply males are not mixed together, which sperm gets used depends on when the hen was ovulating (if i remember rightly) usually meaning that the older sperms which is usually utilized first. Imagine a giant tub, with a tap on the bottom; if you pour solution A (male A's sperms) and then followed by solution B (male B's sperms) and that these two solutions (sperms) do not mix with solution B forming a layer above solution A. When the tap is opened (time of ovulation/utilization of sperm to fertilise an egg), solution A will always flow first. Solution B would only flow out of the tap once solution A has disappears (been used). So a male's success rate in fertilising an egg after mating depends on the number of males that has mated with the female before you. Others also suggests that sperm displacement can also take place, so for example, the tub is only 1L. for example the tub is filled with 500ml solution, now the assumption is that sperms do mix, you can displace alot of the original 500ml solution by pouring i.e. 800ml of another solution, and thus making the tub overflow. If sperms do mix, then the male which deposits the most sperm will have a higher chance of his sperms remaining within the spermatheca (tub) if he 'overflows' it with his sperms (although this does not mean physical excretion of sperms out of the female, sperms will degrade within the female over time).
Genetic diversity concerns only!
Would be nice to have a single ooth with half siblings.it can be like a tube of toothpaste like you've described, i doubt there are any empirical work done on mantids specifically as i think Parker's theory is pretty widely accepted as his original empirical work was done with insects (i think it was dungfly) and i'd imagine it'll be pretty hard to get the money necessary for such a relatively useless study. Mantids are not one of the laboratory or model animals for behavioural ecology experiments that comes to my mind.Genetic diversity concerns only!
