Praying Mantis Thread

[Chickeria]

That is cute!

Thank you! I remember her sitting in the plant and staring at me she was a white-rose orchid mantis, my sister named her Ally.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

Yes!! Might have hatched already though.

How can you tell? It's been sitting since before winter.

 

[DogAndCat36]

How can you tell? It's been sitting since before winter.

It is pretty hard to tell, when mantids hatch they crawl out of this little opening called the emergence area, it kind of looks like scales running down the ootheca. Mantids hatch when they are warm for like around 2 weeks, so it depened on your area. If you frequent there and saw no sheddings then they did not hatch yet!

Some examples of mantids hatching. \/

It takes around half an hour, it is very fast.

 

[Sally PB]

^^Wow, soo cool! Thanks for the picture!

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

It is pretty hard to tell, when mantids hatch they crawl out of this little opening called the emergence area, it kind of looks like scales running down the ootheca. Mantids hatch when they are warm for like around 2 weeks, so it depened on your area. If you frequent there and saw no sheddings then they did not hatch yet!

Some examples of mantids hatching. \/
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It takes around half an hour, it is very fast.

That is pretty cool!! It hasn't changed much in appearance except the white color has faded but I want to say it's still intact would be cool to watch them emerge

 

[Chickeria]

That is pretty cool!! It hasn't changed much in appearance except the white color has faded but I want to say it's still intact would be cool to watch them emerge

That would be amazing if you could watch them emerge!

It is pretty hard to tell, when mantids hatch they crawl out of this little opening called the emergence area, it kind of looks like scales running down the ootheca. Mantids hatch when they are warm for like around 2 weeks, so it depened on your area. If you frequent there and saw no sheddings then they did not hatch yet!

Some examples of mantids hatching. \/
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It takes around half an hour, it is very fast.

Wow thank you for sharing this!

 

[rosemarythyme]

Some examples of mantids hatching. \/
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It takes around half an hour, it is very fast.

It's like looking at stills from some alien movie...

 

[DogAndCat36]

It's like looking at stills from some alien movie...

Yeah! I still can't get the image out of my head! When they are crawling out, they don't have all of their legs pumped with blood, so only two back legs work and they kinda wiggle out of the ootheca like maggots with two tails. It is very very nasty.

 

[chickentrains]

Dont have one but they are on my "wishlist"

 

[DogAndCat36]

Great news! Galo is now an L3! He survived his second molt! Aina hasn't molted yet though, she will soon though. They are 26 days old.
Galo is so big now! I'll take a picture when I get home.