Snap! parthenogenetic grass mantid nymph!

[nursemelody]

I tired to mate the two grass mantids I had, but they were not interested in the least.... So I let him go back off into the wild to try his luck elsewhere..

Yesterday when I was cleaning my terrariums I noticed a little bug in my females home..... lo and behold, one of her ooths was hatching.... So I took the four (as carefully as humanly possible and removed them from her enclosure... I do hope that there is some survival rate.... if there is, then these are totally her little clones!

 

[macawlover2]

Cute little guys! Congrats on the oothe hatching

 

[dgerndt]

Congratulations! I have a Egyptian clone. They're sweet little miracles of nature, aren't they?

 

[Orin]

It sounds like the female was caught outside making parthenogenesis the least likely theory.