Possible diapause emulation?

[massaman]

LOL I do have two net cages but they not in very good shape sadly but if anyone has any lying around they are not using I would put it to good use then and you still got that offer up phil on sending me a net cage a long time ago when I gave you my address on you promised to send one that I did not hear from you or anything and wondered what happened!Well the two cages I do have are not in the best shape and well kind of use them for breeding my smaller mantis and used them to breed my europeans and one of them right now I am housing some giant asian nymphs that hatched a week or so ago and man trying to keep them alive is not easy they may seem easy to take care of but in no way should they be in the same zipcode as each other as they love to play the eating game with their siblings and well one of the better shape net cages is housing them for now until I get some that are going to last a while!

 

[massaman]

no a nick name a friend of mine gave me years ago and it stayed with me and well in my case I dont want to raise chinese or europeans any more until next year is what I am getting at and want to put the native species in diapause in my situation as I dont want to do any more raising of these for a while but would like to let them go into my yard next year and so on and so forth!

 

[sbugir]

O Okay, yeah I like european mantids alot and would like to see an ooth hatch. So i kinda want to know what to do lol!

 

[massaman]

Ok if you put them in the fridge as that might be what I am hoping I dont break down and do but if I do then do I have to wrap the ooths in individual paper towels in a container then or just put down paper towel and put all the ooths I plan to diapause on top of the paper towel and just mist all of them?

 

[Rick]

I agree with you Rick, lots of people can keep their ooths safely in the fridge over winter, but the ooths are not in diapause.

Semantics.

If my doubts about something sway someone away from the mechanism then so be it Phil. I am not an expert on any of this and never claim to be and I didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night either. I am learning sometimes just like many others. I just base what I say on my experiences and what works for me, bottom line plain and simple.

 

[tier]

All in all, Phil, this is dangerous half knowledge. You are wrong or at least not precise in most what you say.

Anyway, nice try.