Too bad about your males, do you have any left? I had one myself recently with a wild caught female that had a male partner when I found them - after they separated I only found his wings and abdomen.
Hopefully you can try breeding them again.
I do have 2 more male ghosts (1 adult, 1 sub-adult), and 1 Carolina male left, but after this experience, I am wondering how necessary it is to remate them at all, I mean especially if the girls are gonna be so difficult about it? :angry: I really don't want to sentence my remaining males to certain death! LOL. Plus, I did witness the male Carolina make a connection
before Gypsy decided to eat his head off!
9/17/16 Update: As far as the ghosts are concerned, I had good news come on Sunday morning and this morning, and 2 of my ghosts ooths hatched!
Each ooth was laid by a different female, so at least two of my girls are fertile. Interestingly, both ooths hatched in exactly 37 days, and were incubated between 75 and 77 degrees F.
There is still one other ghost girl I have that has laid 4 or 5 ooths already, and my last and youngest ghost girl finally laid her first ooth yesterday (it was a pretty big one too!) I was so happy to see her finally laying, as I was starting to worry that she was egg bound. But now that she has started laying, it means I potentially have 4 mated ghost girls laying!
geez......looks like I have a lot of ghost nymphs in my future!
Sorry about your males! Still, exciting that you have so many ooths.
Thanks Ashlee! Like I said above, maybe remating is not necessary after all, with all the potentially fertile ooths I already have!
