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19.04.2007 18:40, andr_mih

Larvae usually die not from hunger, but from under-heating and / or stale food. In any case, freshly eaten flies or mosquitoes from bloodworms are better than their larvae. The grass has already grown in some places-you can mow all sorts of small things on it with a net. How many times to feed - and as they get fatter-so good

19.04.2007 20:05, Боря

How many times a day do L1 nymphs need to be fed for their normal development?

I feed once a day.

20.04.2007 16:29, Феанор

What temperature do they need?
I have them dying like flies, although this is most likely from malnutrition - it is difficult to get fruit flies. Saves the Department of Genetics. To the one who brought out wingless fruit flies, it is necessary to erect a monument made of gold!

20.04.2007 16:37, Феанор

And geneticists, in my opinion, have already come to terms with the fact that everyone asks for fruit flies for mantises

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20.04.2007 17:24, Боря

What temperature do they need?

Optimum - 26-28*S, plus humid air. I arrange them in plastic cups covered with mesh, which I place in a micro-garden with a layer of wet coconut substrate at the bottom, and put them near the battery. Molts 1-4 followed in about ten days, which is quite fast.
They can live at room temperature and humidity, but grow three times slower.

Than hunting for fruit flies, isn't it easier to find adult crickets, and after 10 days to get a few hundred small ones from them?

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24.04.2007 17:32, FILLIN

Whether it is possible to feed tree mantises at the first stages-while they are small-with common ants...or worms..???

24.04.2007 18:55, omar

Ants are too big and dangerous for them. What kind of worms do you mean?

24.04.2007 20:15, FILLIN

Also common.dozhdevye

25.04.2007 13:32, guest: Николай

But they wouldn't let me go to the biofactory department... I was there on Saturday last week. The guard didn't seem to take any interest in my problem. So if someone was more lucky - a huge request, please share. At least a couple of pieces for breeding. And I have mantis larvae molted in 10-12 days. According to my observations, the period between molts is greatly increased by under-feeding (all other things being equal).

25.04.2007 18:24, andr_mih

Uh, I should have asked the students... well, you left without flies... What do you feed them now, each other what?

26.04.2007 8:43, guest: Николай

I didn't ask the students because I remembered my classmates at my university. Most of them (95%) didn't give a damn (to put it mildly) about biology at all. And the teachers at the entrance did not want to wait for me.
I feed them, of course, not each other, but finely chopped maggots. The food is clearly not optimal (but it will be better than a bloodworm). Soon, the maggots (started pupating) should hatch flies. I'll chop them up. I give a mole to some lucky people. But in general, they will die strongly. 19 larvae left!

27.04.2007 11:22, Феанор

How long can second instar larvae survive without food? And then I have a power outage.

27.04.2007 18:37, Боря

Full - up-at room temperature for 5-10 days, until they fade, and after another four days. Hungry-no more than five days. But the first insects were already beginning to appear, especially outside the city, on the slopes facing south.

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29.04.2007 17:36, Феанор

In this weather, I only managed to dig up small woodlice and a few spiders. Spiders were eaten instantly, and woodlice immediately (!) they took a break.So I think, why would that be? They don't have enough moisture, or something.
Dead mantises, of course, do not eat...

02.05.2007 9:43, guest: Николай

Boris, how often do larvae die during molting? Two of my eight children died (my antennae and legs didn't come out). Can this be due to insufficient humidity in the air?

02.05.2007 9:58, Tigran Oganesov

Can this be due to insufficient humidity in the air?

Yes, this is one of the main reasons.

02.05.2007 14:21, Боря

Frequency - last year I lost two out of about twenty, this year - not a single one. Both are in fairly early stages, L2-3. And they were in a heated wet terrarium.
I did not notice that when growing in the atmosphere of a room, the mortality rate during moults would be clearly expressed. Usually only a lag in growth.

03.05.2007 14:32, Феанор

Here they wrote that when molting, lost limbs are restored.
And one of my praying mantises was missing a paw on the middle leg(at the second age), and after molting the paw never appeared. Maybe in a few lines it will appear?

04.05.2007 8:46, guest: Николай

I did not observe the restoration of paws in my pets, but the antennas are restored in a few lines.
I was thinking here – what if the unsuccessful molts are the result of the influence of larval hormones of opaprysh (for example, juvenile hormone of the adjacent bodies)? Maybe they knocked down the humoral regulation of molting in mantis nymphs? Or hormones cannot enter the insect's body with food (i.e., they lose their properties under the action of food). enzymes)?

05.05.2007 19:54, Guest

No.
I've only fed my own drosophiles, and still a few died - the legs and antennae didn't come out of the old skin.

05.05.2007 19:55, Феанор

Sorry about that. I left the previous message

18.05.2007 18:29, Феанор

But there is still regeneration! For 2 molts, the foot was restored.

18.05.2007 21:42, Феанор

If I had noticed this topic earlier , I would have given it away for nothing. Now it's too late - there are not enough left and I promised to give everyone to someone as they grow up.

28.05.2007 16:14, guest: Николай

Very interesting. I have a larva without a paw only once molted, and the second time it died.
Does the tree mantis have sexual dimorphism in its coloration? I have one larva that is darker. Could it be a female?

28.05.2007 16:37, Tigran Oganesov

No, the color is not related to gender. The usual polymorphism is present.

20.07.2007 12:55, yegor

Do they catch flies on the fly? If they catch me, I'd take a dozen!

20.07.2007 13:22, SVV

I will be in St. Petersburg next Wednesday, I would take a dozen or two

20.07.2007 15:53, RippeR

There are a lot of flies at home, do you want to plant a couple to catch?

20.07.2007 16:32, Tigran Oganesov

Catch a bunch of ktyrei or Bembiks

))

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20.07.2007 22:24, guest: Антонина

I found a praying mantis at my home ( in Ukraine, in the Kiev region). That's really warming!

21.07.2007 18:05, RippeR

Aren't they common in KO??

13.08.2007 17:51, vab

Is the offer still valid?

14.08.2007 2:29, Шастик

It's a pity you can't send them to Moldova.I wouldn't mind such mantises.

14.08.2007 7:36, vab

I think in Moldova it is easier to catch mantis( if they are not protected, of course), but you can ask my friends from Odessa, maybe they have something...

04.09.2007 18:35, Феанор

My last praying mantis died. I lay down on my back and almost stopped moving, and after a few hours I stopped completely. The rest gradually died out during molting. Initially, there were not many of them, because they hatched ahead of time, I did not expect this and the ooteka was in an inconvenient place, so many did not hatch. And of those who hatched, many managed to starve to death - in April, it is difficult to get so many fruit flies to feed everyone.

04.09.2007 18:38, Феанор

But now I know how to hold them.
My friend and I really want an ooteka. No one has an extra one?
P.S. I've been told that naming them after the sons of Feanor is not good for survival...

This post was edited by Feanor - 09/04/2007 18: 42

04.09.2007 19:44, Боря

Where are you living?
I have an Ootheca arborica (Hierodula tenuidentata) on exchange.

04.09.2007 21:32, Tigran Oganesov

P.S. I've been told that naming them after the sons of Feanor is not good for survival...

There's no escaping the curse...

04.09.2007 21:44, Sparrow

I would take an ooteka in Moscow) better than a flower shop)

06.09.2007 17:13, Феанор

Where are you living?
I have an Ootheca arborea (Hierodula tenuidentata) to exchange.

I study at the MSU biofactory Faculty, live in Moscow, and-alas-I can hardly go to St. Petersburg for praying mantises.

Sparrow: And where?

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