Sping time indeed!!

[Butterfly]

So I had gotten a couple of Chinese nymphs from Veggie, and he included a couple ooths too.

Of all the nymphs he sent me only one is still kickin, and just had its first or second shed over the weekend)

So I decide to check on the ooths I put in the Apple tree's and I notice the strings comin down from the Chinese ooth. "It hatched" I scream and we proceed to run around with a spaghetti jar made for Mantids and play find the baby bug amid the biiiiiig apple tree. lol.

I managed to catch 10 of them, they'd jump on my hand and jump into the jar!! It was so perfect.

Then I'm deciding ok Im done I'll leave the rest to be wild mantids and hopefully Ill get to see them in the yard later in the year. Then I see another tiiiny nymph on a blossom and catch him, but hes not brown like the chinese so I put him in another jar. I get to looking closer and realize I think I caught the one Stagmomantis Limbata we released almost 3 weeks ago in the same tree!! He's tiny tho so he's now munching on crickets inside a nice warm jar.

So yeah spring has definately sprung here in the Valley lol.

 

[OGIGA]

Sounds exciting

I wonder how many of the Chinese will make it to adulthood.

 

[robo mantis]

not many

 

[Rick]

Yeah the wild ooths here hatched awhile back. You won't have much luck with them in apple trees. They thrive in weedy meadows that contain a lot of food insects.

 

[Butterfly]

I did notice we have quite a few aphids and weird little bugs in the tree's, and its close to the rosebushes so they can clear them of those darn aphids.

I did manage to catch 11 of em to keep inside at least.

Maybe Ill take the other ooth to a nice park overlooking the whole Valley here. Theres lots of shrubs and weeds and what not there, maybe they'll do better.