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Post by Asiletto on Feb 18, 2014 11:56:27 GMT
Here's my new pets
A couple of mantids, Sphodromantis lineola and Hierodula membranacea:
An easy beetle, to make some experience before moving to something bigger (and more expensive), Pachnoda marginata:
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 12, 2014 13:23:20 GMT
The Pachnoda have turned to beetles and have laid hundreds of eggs, here's the sons of the larvae of the previous posts.
These are L2 and L3 but there are many many more L1 and eggs in the substrate. The beetles are still very active and I hope they will live some more.
Definitely an easy insect to grow!
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 19, 2014 18:11:33 GMT
Another beetle (still a larva), a Goliathus goliatus quadrimaculatus female. She is 10 cm and is going to pupate soon I think, she stopped to eat and start to look for a suitable place to build the cocoon.
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Post by Atomfix on Jul 19, 2014 18:19:47 GMT
Woah! didn't knew this thread existed. Those Mantids are incredible! watching it in a time-lapse eating that fly! This is definitely something I'd think about getting next.
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 19, 2014 18:53:47 GMT
Nice beasts eh?  The mantid of the first video is now adult (she is huge!) and had laid a couple of oothecas, hope to get some tiny little mantids soon.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jul 19, 2014 19:21:04 GMT
Did she eat her mate or can the eggs develop without her mating?
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 19, 2014 19:27:50 GMT
She didn't eat the male, I put the male in her box after feeding her a roach, and I continued to feed her for some hours while the male did his thing. They've been together for 24 hours and mated multiple times, after that I moved the male to his container.
The female will lay the oothecas even if she's not mated, but nothing will hatch in that case.
I still have the male and maybe tomorrow I will try to put them together again.
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 20, 2014 18:37:30 GMT
Sadly the female has died today, I don't know why. The males are still alive.
But the good news is that the first ootheca is beginning to hatch, here's the first two "mantidlings".
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 21, 2014 8:52:29 GMT
And this morning I found this: |
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Post by Atomfix on Jul 21, 2014 9:03:06 GMT
And this morning I found this: I guess you didn't expect all those hatchlings? Looks great! |
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 21, 2014 9:08:23 GMT
Well I was expecting a lot of them, but I was surprised anyway . They should start to eat in three days, the past week I've prepared 6-7 jars of Drosophila hydei, I hope this will be enough to start. Tonight I'll move them into one or two 6 liters braplast containers, and start some more drosophila jars just in case.. . |
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jul 21, 2014 9:36:44 GMT
Jen and I were amazed to see one coming out from the egg sac. That is a lot of baby mantids, maybe 70 from what we saw in the video. You certainly have a winning way with insects and arachnids  |
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Post by Asiletto on Jul 26, 2014 23:01:35 GMT
Nephila madagascariensis, hatched this week and still inside the cocoon.
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Post by Asiletto on Sept 5, 2014 10:02:26 GMT
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Post by TenebrousNova on Sept 5, 2014 11:10:48 GMT
That atlas moth is beautiful. A shame that the adults only live for about a week.
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