mack
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i don't even know what search terms i would use to find this answer, so y'all please forgive me if this has already been answered in some other post.
i have ghost mantises, 2 pretty green females, one brown male, and one green mantis which sure looks like a male, but hasn't gone through the final molt.
it's been quite a few weeks since the females had their last molt, so i am feeling like it's time to breed them. so here's my question: i would love to breed the green 'male' to green females if he turns out to actually be male. but the clock is ticking. i know that females carry the sperm and can lay ooths without mating again. but what i'm wondering is if i breed both females to the brown male, can the green 'male' still fertilize one of them later? or will they just carry the brown male's sperm and not mate or not be fertilized by a second male? i know that guppies carry sperm in the same way, but a female guppy can conceive by a second male. what about mantises? can they do it?
i have ghost mantises, 2 pretty green females, one brown male, and one green mantis which sure looks like a male, but hasn't gone through the final molt.
it's been quite a few weeks since the females had their last molt, so i am feeling like it's time to breed them. so here's my question: i would love to breed the green 'male' to green females if he turns out to actually be male. but the clock is ticking. i know that females carry the sperm and can lay ooths without mating again. but what i'm wondering is if i breed both females to the brown male, can the green 'male' still fertilize one of them later? or will they just carry the brown male's sperm and not mate or not be fertilized by a second male? i know that guppies carry sperm in the same way, but a female guppy can conceive by a second male. what about mantises? can they do it?