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Species: Some kind of 3 inch, green mantis, not african mantis.
Location: Australia, syd
Around a year ago, i found some ootheacea's on wooden fence, i took them off the fence (and at points simply cut the portion of the fence the ootheaca was on, off. I stored these for roughly a month or so, eventually i realized they weren't going to hatch, so i discarded them.
Now 2 weeks ago or so, on the same fence, i saw a female mantis. I'v been looking for these things to keep as pets for almost a year now, so i caught it and put it in a container, fed it some cockroaches. About 3 days in, it layed an ooth on the celling of the container.
Eventually i released the adult mantis into a lemon tree, and im sure its moved on to other plants in my garden by now.
My questions are:
How long will it be till the ooth hatches?
Can the nymphs hunt for themselves, (eg, i have plants with terrible aphid problems, and am planning to just sic the nymphs on them.)
The container has holes in it (used for air holes), when i made them i accounted only for the size of an adult mantises, and the nymphs are surely small enough to get through. If i do hatch them in the same container: Will a large (more then 25%) number of them escape out of these holes?
Is putting a few drops of water on it daily, enough or too much to keep it moist?
Should i leave it in the sun for some period of time? As it has NO direct sunlight atm, as its in a plastic container.
Location: Australia, syd
Around a year ago, i found some ootheacea's on wooden fence, i took them off the fence (and at points simply cut the portion of the fence the ootheaca was on, off. I stored these for roughly a month or so, eventually i realized they weren't going to hatch, so i discarded them.
Now 2 weeks ago or so, on the same fence, i saw a female mantis. I'v been looking for these things to keep as pets for almost a year now, so i caught it and put it in a container, fed it some cockroaches. About 3 days in, it layed an ooth on the celling of the container.
Eventually i released the adult mantis into a lemon tree, and im sure its moved on to other plants in my garden by now.
My questions are:
How long will it be till the ooth hatches?
Can the nymphs hunt for themselves, (eg, i have plants with terrible aphid problems, and am planning to just sic the nymphs on them.)
The container has holes in it (used for air holes), when i made them i accounted only for the size of an adult mantises, and the nymphs are surely small enough to get through. If i do hatch them in the same container: Will a large (more then 25%) number of them escape out of these holes?
Is putting a few drops of water on it daily, enough or too much to keep it moist?
Should i leave it in the sun for some period of time? As it has NO direct sunlight atm, as its in a plastic container.