Tropidomantis ooth

[collinchang635]

I found a tropidomantis ooth and removed it from the wall.How do I stick it to a container?Can we use glue?What do tropidomantis nymphs eat?Thanks!

 

[mrblue]

you can stick it to stuff using hot glue, but i like to make sure to wait a few seconds for the glue to cool down before touching it onto the ootheca. i think thats the best way, sometimes people thread some string through and tie them up but this species' ootheca is a bit too small for that. so i would say hot glue. the nymphs are too small for any fruit flies. search the forum for tropidomantis and you will find a thread that may help you (started by cindy).

 

[chrisboy101]

i use super glue

 

[Rick]

i use super glue

Super glue is full of chemicals. Like blue said use a hot glue gun and some nontoxic glue.

 

[collinchang635]

Thanks for the replies. I'll try that

 

[chrisboy101]

Super glue is full of chemicals. Like blue said use a hot glue gun and some nontoxic glue.

but it doesnt matter if its on the back of the ooth and its dry.

 

[mantidsandgeckos]

So is super glue safe?Collin and I used super glue to stick the ooths

 

[chrisboy101]

So is super glue safe?Collin and I used super glue to stick the ooths

i hope it is.......

 

[Meiji]

Hot glue, super glue, white glue...all will work and are unlikely to harm your mantises. The biggest danger might be fumes from the glue accumulating in a container and turning it into a mantis nymph gas chamber. If the old pros advise non-toxic hot glue, try to use that in the future but don't worry about it in the meanwhile. BTW, I usually use a needle and thread, just piercing the papery part of the ooth and hanging it up by that.

 

[chun]

i normally pierce a very fine entomological pin used for pinning insects through the anterior/rostral (front) end of the ootheca against the top of a plastic lid, which allows the ootheca's dorsal side (the side which the ootheca hatches from) hanging towards the substrate/ground.

hope that makes sense

 

[mrblue]

i normally pierce a very fine entomological pin used for pinning insects through the anterior/rostral (front) end of the ootheca against the top of a plastic lid, which allows the ootheca's dorsal side (the side which the ootheca hatches from) hanging towards the substrate/ground. hope that makes sense

this would work for most ooths but with tropidomantis ones theres not much to work with if you know what i mean.

 

[collinchang635]

i normally pierce a very fine entomological pin used for pinning insects through the anterior/rostral (front) end of the ootheca against the top of a plastic lid, which allows the ootheca's dorsal side (the side which the ootheca hatches from) hanging towards the substrate/ground. hope that makes sense

Tropidomantid ooths are too small to do that.

 

[Cindy]

Use a small piece of double-sided tape.