I got a few orthodera ooths from a guy in new zealand and had the ooths for over a week and half and strange holes seem to have appeared on a few of the ooths and I know they had nothing on them when I got them so just wondering if this is the ooth breathing or something as been misting them every day and maybe that is a tad much on them but just never seen holes form on a ooth just on its own and the ooths have no parasitic wasps or anything else of foreign nature and have had ooths like this before and dont know if the ooths would still be able to hatch having tiny holes on the zipper end!!
mysterious holes in ooth
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sporeworld
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I've had ooths that hatched parasitic wasps - tiny little things with looooong ovipositors - easily twice the length of the body. But I don't recall seeing holes in the ooths. Of course, they would have been tiny, so I may have just missed them.
PhilinYuma
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The ooths that you purchased from the N.Z. dealer are wild caught, as I guess the dealer told you. If the holes that appeared did so after you got them, it certainly seems that they were caused by the emergence of a parasitic wasp or fly. These are so small that they can sometimes escape undetected.The good news, if this is the case, is that each parasite dines on only one egg, so you should still be able to get a decent hatch. Good luck, and let us know how this works out!
zack4211
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ive gotten them too. if they are, small, dark & 1/2-1 mm they dont affect they ooth or the health of the babies so nothing to fret about as long as you only have a few.(its happened to me twice)
