What is up with S. californica!!!???

[agent A]

Okay great, well it's good to know the people who have access to wild populations.I'll definitely contact you guys sooner or later, sooner if the plans I made with Agent A don't work out.

Krissim Klaw, yeah I really feel bad for him. Mine just sits in his container and looks at the other mantids. While my euro male just sits there afraid to make a move.

i think our plan should work out

 

[womantis]

mantid lord,

your story is so similar to mine...healthy nympths, get to subadult or adult, eat, act fine and dead in 24 hours - sometimes a bit of lethargy, other times, sudden death..mine are (were) tenodera..all in net cubes, lots of ventilation, no mismoults and healthy crickets..realizing this happens..but at some point, would like to understand why...i am in northern california.

 

[MantidLord]

Yeah, Agent A, I have faith in our plan.

Womantis, I've had that happen before, which is why I mentioned the whole "dead within 24 hours after a molt" syndrome (or something like that). It happens randomly it seems, a perfect molt and then bam, dead. Luckily, I've only experienced that event once this season with a M. religiosa female (a shame, but good thing I have an army). The californicas were different in that they would die either before a molt or right in the middle of their instar.

Unless I misread your post and you didn't mean they die within 24 hours of molting. But I don't have an answer either way, it sucks, that's why I try to have multiple breeding pairs.

 

[agent A]

Yeah, Agent A, I have faith in our plan.

Womantis, I've had that happen before, which is why I mentioned the whole "dead within 24 hours after a molt" syndrome (or something like that). It happens randomly it seems, a perfect molt and then bam, dead. Luckily, I've only experienced that event once this season with a M. religiosa female (a shame, but good thing I have an army). The californicas were different in that they would die either before a molt or right in the middle of their instar.

Unless I misread your post and you didn't mean they die within 24 hours of molting. But I don't have an answer either way, it sucks, that's why I try to have multiple breeding pairs.

Yeah, Agent A, I have faith in our plan.

Womantis, I've had that happen before, which is why I mentioned the whole "dead within 24 hours after a molt" syndrome (or something like that). It happens randomly it seems, a perfect molt and then bam, dead. Luckily, I've only experienced that event once this season with a M. religiosa female (a shame, but good thing I have an army). The californicas were different in that they would die either before a molt or right in the middle of their instar.

Unless I misread your post and you didn't mean they die within 24 hours of molting. But I don't have an answer either way, it sucks, that's why I try to have multiple breeding pairs.

i'm sending rick the female this week so u should send him your male, i will feed her well if u r sendin him so they can be mated shortly...

 

[frogparty]

Thunderstorms kept me from finding any yesterday, although I found an amazing huge apricot colored grasshopper subadult and a purple adult hopper of another type.

 

[MantidLord]

Agent A, I'll be sending mine (along with other mantids for the event) most likely this week. I'm going out collecting tomorrow so I can donate mantids to the cause. And yes, fatten her up. I'll make sure mine is healthy, hydrated, and not hungry.

He should mate fairly easily too btw. I took him out yesterday to clean his cage and he fluttered and tried to mate with my finger. So he's definitely not shy.

 

[agent A]

Agent A, I'll be sending mine (along with other mantids for the event) most likely this week. I'm going out collecting tomorrow so I can donate mantids to the cause. And yes, fatten her up. I'll make sure mine is healthy, hydrated, and not hungry.

He should mate fairly easily too btw. I took him out yesterday to clean his cage and he fluttered and tried to mate with my finger. So he's definitely not shy.

ok good