JoeCapricorn
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Emerald, a dear mantis and one of my most beloved mantises of all time, who I had in the fall from September to October. She laid two ooths while in her enclosure. One was right on the side and I moved it before it was dried and it exposed a large portion of the interior ooth. The other was a shorter ooth that I moved from the side after it had dried, and is otherwise perfect.
So I kept them outside, they were both on the same stick, and waited.
Come the warm days in March I bring them in and start wondering when they might hatch... but I didn't want them to hatch in my room. A few weeks ago I put each Ooth in a container, but noticed that the one that I pulled away prematurely seemed blackened inside and I started to wonder if this Ooth was viable.
I put the healthy ooth in a container with it still on the stick, the other I took off the stick and examined, eventually breaking down to where the eggs were and opened one, the egg was in fact filled with goo. So, I put that battered Ooth aside and made a nice habitat for the healthy ooth, basically forgetting about the other Ooth.
The battered Ooth made its way from my nightstand to under my shelves during the constant shuffle of getting my keys and putting them back or moving this and that. Today, it hatched, sending an army of tiny Chinese mantises marching around my room. I managed to recover 12 of them. There may be more. I used the stringy hay like stuff that came with the P. wahlbergiis this past Wednesday, and some netting, to provide traction and I gave the tiny Chinese hatchlings fruit flies, but I haven't seen any eat.
Any tips? This is my first ooth hatch, even though it wasn't in the best environment. There may be dozens under the shelves right now!
Any tips?
So I kept them outside, they were both on the same stick, and waited.
Come the warm days in March I bring them in and start wondering when they might hatch... but I didn't want them to hatch in my room. A few weeks ago I put each Ooth in a container, but noticed that the one that I pulled away prematurely seemed blackened inside and I started to wonder if this Ooth was viable.
I put the healthy ooth in a container with it still on the stick, the other I took off the stick and examined, eventually breaking down to where the eggs were and opened one, the egg was in fact filled with goo. So, I put that battered Ooth aside and made a nice habitat for the healthy ooth, basically forgetting about the other Ooth.
The battered Ooth made its way from my nightstand to under my shelves during the constant shuffle of getting my keys and putting them back or moving this and that. Today, it hatched, sending an army of tiny Chinese mantises marching around my room. I managed to recover 12 of them. There may be more. I used the stringy hay like stuff that came with the P. wahlbergiis this past Wednesday, and some netting, to provide traction and I gave the tiny Chinese hatchlings fruit flies, but I haven't seen any eat.
Any tips? This is my first ooth hatch, even though it wasn't in the best environment. There may be dozens under the shelves right now!
Any tips?
