Miomantis paykullii ootheca

[Aristalochia]

I was just tending to my herd of Idolomantis nymphs today when I noticed another of my ootheca was in the process of hatching! I love seeing them crawl out 

 

[River Dane]

Congratulations! Good luck with your new babies! 

 

[Nanodot]

That is awesome!

 

[Connor]

Wow you got a lot of little ones! Congrats on another successful ooth hatch. Waiting on a boxer ooth myself

 

[Aristalochia]

Thanks guys, I'm having a lot of fun with mantids. It's really hard to resist the urge to get more, but since I have over a hundred now I'm gonna try to cool it for now. I just spent a bunch o bucks on some good sized colonies of wax worms, horn worms, silkworms and BSFL, and ordered 10lbs of silkworms chow. Between feeders oothecae and containers I spent lets just say, more than I'd like to admit to..  but it's all worth it if my babies are happy!

Which type of boxer are you hatching Connor?

 

[Connor]

Wow a lot of feeders lol! I'm sure your babies are loving it. 

Im actually hatching three ooths atm. A stagmomantis carolina, a brunners ooth and the boxer(otomantis scutigera). The first two are set to hatch in a couple months but the O. Scutigera is supposed to start hatching this weekend although it could take longer. I also have more stagmomantis ooths about to be laid.

 

[Serle]

Xlnt looking hatch , those little guys are some of the smallest nymphs I've seen , congrats.............. S

 

[Aristalochia]

Yeah, Serle. These guys are so small! I might just feed them springtails for now cause it looks like the melanogaster's could eat the tiny nymphs...heh

Connor, goodluck with those scutigera 

 

[Connor]

Thanks! If you're looking for springtails or tiny little bugs take a bucket and swing it in the grass; you'll catch all sorts of little bugs. Of course assuming your ground isn't frozen over yet.

 

[Serle]

Those Mio's are very tenacious , they'll catch the melanogasters easily .  I've even fed Hydei to them after a week , about the same size as they are ..........  S

 

[Connor]

Those Mio's are very tenacious , they'll catch the melanogasters easily .  I've even fed Hydei to them after a week , about the same size as they are ..........  S

Wow that's crazy serle! Such little guys eating hydei! Lol

 

[Serle]

Quite interesting to watch , Mio's are pretty agressive....... S