Ootheca

[Orin]

I can't imagine what kind of ootheca this could be, anybody know?

Ootheca?

It is a photograph taken in Costa Rica.

 

[Xenomantis]

:blink: Woah... That really is weird looking!

Maybe it could be the ooth of a previously un-discovered species. That would be great if it were!

 

[Andrew]

Aren't some empusid ooths spiny also? It definately looks like it could be an ootheca. Other thoughts would be some sort of assassin/hemipteran or maybe a locust/katydid species?

I've never seen anything like that before...I'm shootin in the dark here. :blink:

 

[MikhailsDinos]

(Really spongy) ? I know this is not a mantis ootheca. In south Africa, We had spiders that would lay egg sacks just like that one.?

 

[OGIGA]

It reminds me of a durian!

 

[yen_saw]

It reminds me of a durian!

Durian.....Hmmmmm yummy!! (sorry i was brought up smelling to this kind of fruit!! ) king of fruit!

No idea what exactly it is but my guess is not a mantis ootheca.

 

[Ian]

LOL, yes Yen...it must be one of those!

That doesn't look a lot like an ootheca really, well totally different to anything I have seen. As Andrew said, the Empusids can have spiny ootheca...so that is a possibility. Do you know what size it was?

 

[idolomantis]

yeah durian tastes like heaven and smells like heck .lol.

and that uhum ooth.. doesnt looks like an mantid ooth :/

 

[Morpheus uk]

I saw some kinf of freaky spongy moult once, like froth but smoother than the one in the pic.

Gongys lay spiny ooths dont they?

Think the spiny ooth is strange look at these :blink:

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/9.html

(top photo)

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/143.html

(top one)

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/4.html

(3rd one down is the strangest ooth ive ever seen)

 

[Mantida]

I saw some kinf of freaky spongy moult once, like froth but smoother than the one in the pic.Gongys lay spiny ooths dont they?

Think the spiny ooth is strange look at these :blink:

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/9.html

(top photo)

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/143.html

(top one)

http://ttwebbase.dyndns.org/mantid/view/4.html

(3rd one down is the strangest ooth ive ever seen)

:blink: That green ooth is just flat out weird.

 

[robo mantis]

It doesn't appear like an ooth because it has no "zipper" where the nymphs could come out. I think its a coocoon of a moth or butterfly. Just a guess

 

[idolomantis]

:blink: That green ooth is just flat out weird.

ever seen the ooth of toumantis ermhani that looks long and gull og bubles and other weird stuff