Caught this girl in the Canoga Park area a couple weeks ago. Fed a few times and then made a sac ...then died slowly over a couple days time.
Any suggestions regarding the sac?
WBurke17
in about nine months you should have baby mantids.. you just have to keep them cool area..
Pulk
ootheca
Steven
9 months.. Cool. Whats the hatch count usually?
ftorres
Hello Stene,
Stagmomantis californicus.
keep ootheca in the fridge for 3 months or so or just out side for the winter and then bring it in and keep it room temp.
20-30 babies, although the ooth seems small.
good luck!!!!
francisco
a1_collection
I have one currently being very happy in its habitat.
Looks like it is a pretty good size.
I have not really had good luck on mantid oothecas so are you telling me that just put it in the fridge and I will have baby mantids?
WBurke17
Ive had several of the native's give me ooth's and i have had a pretty good turn around on them. ive just keep them in plastic tubs in my reptile room where i season my snakes. so if you keep it in your back room there Steven it should be good if the ooth's good..
ftorres
a1_collection wrote:
I have one currently being very happy in its habitat.
Looks like it is a pretty good size.
I have not really had good luck on mantid oothecas so are you telling me that just put it in the fridge and I will have baby mantids?
Hello,
What I am saying is that we have to research and try to immitate the right conditions on which the animal lives.
Local MAntis show up as adults in the Summer, diying up as soon as start getting cooler, oothecae will not hatch until the winter passes and the small nymphs will hatch and grow to adults before or early summer, so they can start another cycle.
So if you can leave your ooth outside where it will develop naturally is fine, if you can not you can live in the fridge door where is not al cold and after a few weeks take out and let it hatch when they are ready.
Local mantis do need a cold period.
Have you ever seen Chinese mantid Ooth for sale at Osh or other garden palces???
Well they usually keep the in a cooler, to slow down the hatching, sometimes they live them too long and nothing ever hatches.
good luck.
francisco
balam
FTorres,
I could not agree with you more.
My goal is to recreate as close as possible the natural environment of the Mantis in order to really experience behavior as it would happen in its natural habitat (well, as much as possible without all the flying).
If all goes well with this one then i shall really get knee deep in Mantids.
I also have to tell you i am pretty excited since i tried feeding a cricket to the Mantis i bought off of you; needless to say the mantis did not even want to get close to it, although it was a small cricket, i still feel like it might have been to big for it.
Today i went scrummaging to the foothills of Sierra Madre (BLVD, not the mountain range) and found me a couple of very small spiders, one smaller than the head of the mantis (body size). I feel these wild caught spiders are a wager, but I'm also pretty sure they have not been exposed to pesticides... parasites are my worry.
The Mantis devoured that one before it even touched the ground.
The second one seem like a very young Black widow, (not sure).
the body of the second spider was a little larger than the Mantis' head. No problem however, for it must have been hungry for something different since the Mantis ate every single part. Starting with the abdomen and the last bite was indeed one of the front legs.
Now it's just hanging upside down chilling beneath a branch.
