Winter's ooth

[Dimity]

Hey! Today I became a grandma! My Arizona mantis ooth hatched. I only found 3 nymphs but I was gone most of the day. Is there a chance they ate each other this soon or could there be more coming?

 

[Matts inverts]

Probably more coming. They usually don’t eat each other until their first molt which is after a day. Super cool they hatched.

 

[Matts inverts]

I’m waiting until my mantis is bigger so I can produce some

 

[Dimity]

Cool. I hope I get more. It's a pretty small ooth though. They don't seem timid at all.

 

[Matts inverts]

Did you produce them or did you buy it?

 

[Dimity]

I found a mantis very end of October last year and before she past she laid 1 ooth. I had come here to have her identified. Everyone decided she was a limbata because of the blue lip. I've been searching the the yard but haven't seen any at all so far this year. I tried to buy some but couldn't find any...

 

[Dimity]

So I went back to see if there were anymore limbata hatched and one of the chinese ooths had started to hatch...

 

[Matts inverts]

Cool. Are you going to keep them or sell or just release?

 

[Dimity]

The Chinese? I don't want to release because if there are more limbata around I don't want them being eaten. But I bought the Chinese ooths before I realized how big and aggressive they can be. I'd like to keep some as pets and if someone wants the rest I could be persuaded to part with them. Never hatched any before today so not sure what to do next. Going to need more food.

 

[hibiscusmile]

The limbata ooth may show up more.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Probably more coming. They usually don’t eat each other until their first molt which is after a day. Super cool they hatched.

They will eat each other gladly at L1. Their first molt is a week or two after hatching not a day.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

The Chinese? I don't want to release because if there are more limbata around I don't want them being eaten. But I bought the Chinese ooths before I realized how big and aggressive they can be. I'd like to keep some as pets and if someone wants the rest I could be persuaded to part with them. Never hatched any before today so not sure what to do next. Going to need more food.

Drive a few miles away and release the T. sinensis in woods/grassy field/bramble bushes.

 

[Matts inverts]

If you need food for them if you are keeping them, I recommend breeding fruit flies and mealworms, they just like anything that’s tiny and moves

 

[MrGhostMantis]

If you need food for them if you are keeping them, I recommend breeding fruit flies and mealworms, they just like anything that’s tiny and moves

They aren’t a fan of beetles. Stick to soft stuff like roaches, flies, mealworms, etc.

 

[Matts inverts]

I used to feed crickets but I always get mostly male crickets so now my room sounds like a forest. At least the mealworms breed and don’t smell bad

 

[MrGhostMantis]

I used to feed crickets but I always get mostly male crickets so now my room sounds like a forest. At least the mealworms breed and don’t smell bad

Never feed crickets they harbor bacteria and parasites. Plus if fed carrots they can kill a mantis.

 

[Matts inverts]

I did not know about the diseases when I first started keeping them. I only fed them because the shop that sold me said it was on small crickets. I now breed mealworms. I have had trouble lately because I keep finding grain mites on the shelf where I had them. I cleaned them but because I had to freeze the substrate, I left behind all the super small worms.

 

[Dimity]

The limbata are still coming. I think there were at least 11 or 12 at last count. Maybe I'll take some of the chinese to my brother in the next town over. He grows veggies and fruit and pretty sure he's organic.

 

[MrGhostMantis]

The limbata are still coming. I think there were at least 11 or 12 at last count. Maybe I'll take some of the chinese to my brother in the next town over. He grows veggies and fruit and pretty sure he's organic.

Nice! Yeah, if there are no pesticides then that’s perfect.

 

[Dimity]

He has a lot of dogs and lost one to cancer so he's pretty organic since then. We have our house treated with orange oil just where the critters would enter so I'm not sure if that's OK but we have plenty of ants, moths, and bees and other things in our garden that I don't use pesticides on. I have been ignoring them for the most part.