Schistocerca gregaria is BLUE?!?

[Choobaine]

Oh yes! Remember that black locust?
Look at it now.

Yeah.

Imagine what it's gonna look like when it's colour sets!
A normal desert locust that just shed is usually white, then pink. This just shed, there was no white, just blue. Most adults are yellow, a little orange in some but this is insane!


You can use my copy of Dune for a colour reference

 

[spydrhunter1]

Cool, post pics when the beast has hardened up...wish we could get those here!

 

[Galapoheros]

Maybe it's just cold, haha. That's cool! I'm sure you're going to try to breed that color into them more, right?

 

[bliss]

very nice. im not that familiar with locusts and stuff like that, but that sure is one cool looking invert!


dan

 

[bugmankeith]

Do you have a picture of him with his full color?

 

[Anh]

if your breeding them for specific traits you have gonna have to start keeping breeding record when artifically selecting them. Basicly breed this color with someone with the same color. Btw is that a golden hinge i see on the back of its abdomin? very cool man.

 

[Tleilaxu]

Definetly try to breed for color! Assuming its not a seprate species from the others you have.

 

[Choobaine]

It's very much the same species, this colour is SO rare the only next best thing I can do is breed it with the darkest one we have, I figure even a small percentage of the brood will come out abnormal regardless of the mate, but we'll work that out when we get there. I'm setting up several seperate tanks that will be used for trying to coax S.gregaria over a few generations to turn back to it's solitary phase. Tha'ts gonna be the messiest part!

 

[Anh]

good thing its a male, you can mate him with alot of female.

 

[auroborus]

it could have a resesive gene, so the color migtt disappear next generation, but it might come out in greater numbers. just make sure his children mate with each other.

 

[bugmankeith]

An updated picture would be great.

 

[sparular]

it could have a resesive gene, so the color migtt disappear next generation, but it might come out in greater numbers. just make sure his children mate with each other.

Indeed, or even better (and grosser) mate it to its own children if you don't consider that immoral. You'll have a better chance of getting a homozygous recessive (2 recessive of the same gene) or correct combination of alleles (gene variants) if it's a polygenic (color determined by more than one gene) trait.

 

[bugmankeith]

Doesnt anyone realize the picture of it's darkened color was never posted? There is no proof it is blue anymore. For all you know it could be black or brown. I'll believe it when I see it on here.

 

[Tleilaxu]

hhhmmm bugman maybe onto something.... I bet it "died" and thus that is the reason for no updated pics....

 

[Choobaine]

oh sorry!
heh

I totally forgot about this thread
I hardly post any more


btw I never implied it would be more blue when it's colour sets!
it would only get less blue, they all do, they shed white and turn to more yellow/orange colours

it's just silly dark and very dappled

hooold on

there you go
picture!

though I must say

it's lower wings are actually rather on the blue side
I have a pic of it flying somewhere
I'll post it later

I was hoping for it's colour change to be more dramatic when it sets but it is still really pretty!
the others look very different from it!
who knew?
it's still pretty!

 

[bugmankeith]

Well, there is a pinkish color so that is still pretty cool. Thanks for the update!