Only mostly dead --

[cloud jaguar]

Yesterday I was feeding a L3 s. limbata nymph a spider outside when I had to go check my fax machine to make sure there was paper since i was receiving a 37 page fax from some lawyer tool. I returned to the nymph which i left outside after about 90 seconds.

When I returned outside i found he nymph lying limp on the bottom of her clear deli cup. This made me angry and i immediately blamed the lawyer for killing my nymph. It was about 100 degrees outside, but without exaggeration, it was about 90 seconds that she was there.

I brought the nymph inside and sprayed her with water and left her there moistened in her death pose. Very sad. An hour later I saw that she was alive ! - i guess that just like in the movie Princess Bride she had been only mostly dead! Within a couple of hours she was back on the underside of the lid of the deli cup eating daddy longlegs spiders happily.

I guess the lesson here is DONT LEAVE YOUR MANTIDS IN THE SUN FOR EVEN 90 SECONDS! Very glad she made it and I will not be doing that again

 

[hibiscusmile]

Yea, I posted somewhere that taking them outside is not good, they are not used to it and especially on hot days, it is like setting something in the car with windows rolled up, heat thru their cups really escalates fast, plus u have to take in the time u carried it outside and set it down, so even plants that are kept inside , die very easily from sunburn outside for less than an hour.

 

[planetq]

Good to know!

 

[PhilinYuma]

Yea, I posted somewhere that taking them outside is not good, they are not used to it and especially on hot days, it is like setting something in the car with windows rolled up, heat thru their cups really escalates fast, plus u have to take in the time u carried it outside and set it down, so even plants that are kept inside , die very easily from sunburn outside for less than an hour.

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