Tenodera sinensis wild ooth hatches

[sally]

When I hatched my first ooth of Chinese last summer I put most of them outside and kept the one ,"Sally". He was my first mantis. yes Sally turned out to be male lol. I found the mantises mating in my yard, and found the ooth in the late fall. I put it in the fridge for the winter and pulled it out in march. Voila, lots of new backyard mantids. I will put them out in a month or so when it is plenty warm So now I will raise one of Sally's kin. and yes I stuffed cotton in the hole lol.

 

[aNisip]

:clap: :clap: woot! I live having wild mantids....but most of mine get eaten my the lizards -.-

 

[Digger]

( Shame on you Andrew ). I'm still waiting on my 4 wild harvested Chinese ooths. The first was collected about 4 weeks ago. No action in the incubator yet. All 4 may very well be duds. And here I am stuck with gallons of melanos ! :surrender:

 

[sally]

( Shame on you Andrew ). I'm still waiting on my 4 wild harvested Chinese ooths. The first was collected about 4 weeks ago. No action in the incubator yet. All 4 may very well be duds. And here I am stuck with gallons of melanos ! :surrender:

. Lol, you will have all 4 hatch at once...Murphy's law....

 

[Digger]

Good point Patricia. I'll send the 1000 hatchlings to Murphy !!

 

[sally]

Update on the nymphs.... They are doing fantastic! Hardy lil buggers. Only lost 3 died so far, but they haven't gone for another molt yet.

They are eating soooo much. I found a couple on the ceiling but I don't think I have anymore escape artists.. There is one that looks almost pale yellow

 

[mantid_mike]

Very nice. Boost that mantis population!!

 

[jrh3]

cool, i have carolinas all over my yard and thats why the eastern fence lizards love hanging out at my house, lol. I see a few house geckos around my house at night too.

 

[Digger]

Yesterday I put about 100 L1s out into a gigantic holly bush, which is just coming to fragrant bloom and onto a honeysuckle bush and large spread of English ivy. Hope some of them make it to later stages.

 

[sally]

They will

 

[dgerndt]

Nice! A few summers ago, I released about 100 into my brother's garden. Every time I came to visit, I would find at leader two mantids. he even found some the next year. I wanted to get some this year, but I waited too long, and now they would be too young by the time they hatch.

 

[jamurfjr]

Good point Patricia. I'll send the 1000 hatchlings to Murphy !!

And I'll release them in a field!

 

[sally]

101 nymphs! 1 loss due to cannibalism, only 1 mismolt so far....... they are L3 some a little bigger. I am looking to release in a week and a half. It is still cold at night here in northern Illinois. Note, 3 died right after hatching,I forgot to add those....

 

[Coneja]

That is a lot of little ones! Congrats on you're high survival rate.

 

[Digger]

Had about 600 (T. sinensis) from three recent ooth hatches. All but these 24 have been released.

Except for a few, each has been moved into his/her custom-furnished condo.

About 50% have molted to L2.

Of course I'm just learning the trials and tribulations of timing FF booms and busts (and when to start an hydei culture). One day you have 3 FFs. You turn around and you've got 244,388 (I counted them).

 

[sally]

Had about 600 (T. sinensis) from three recent ooth hatches. All but these 24 have been released.

Except for a few, each has been moved into his/her custom-furnished condo.

About 50% have molted to L2.

Of course I'm just learning the trials and tribulations of timing FF booms and busts (and when to start an hydei culture). One day you have 3 FFs. You turn around and you've got 244,388 (I counted them).

Haha and you were wondering if they would hatch I can't even imagine. Just feeding the 100 is unbelievable, let alone 300 + Oh and I stole your pantyhose idea as well .

 

[Coneja]

Jeez, Digger! How do you do it? (Aside from apparently buying Tupperware and pantyhose in bulk, that is...) I think the stress about having enough food for them all would send me over the edge.

Haha and you were wondering if they would hatch .

Yeah, I remember that.

 

[sally]

Jeez, Digger! How do you do it? (Aside from apparently buying Tupperware and pantyhose in bulk, that is...) I think the stress about having enough food for them all would send me over the edge.

Yeah, I remember that.

All the pantyhose Digger uses...lol must be funny buying them all, some people prob think he is a burglar....

 

[Coneja]

Although buying them to burglarize someone is probably considered less strange than raising mantids by the general populace. :lol: People have some surprised reactions when I tell them about this hobby...