Maintenance of Orthoptera

Do you have oatmeal or buckwheat flakes? Long-whiskered straight-winged birds are very fond of them, and everyone and even the dybka ate (sadyuga is me).

In Bulgaria, there should be beautiful bush lovers, and there are also fat ones there. Dybki naturally. And not only the steppe, in my opinion..

I've heard that you can't take a Dybok with your hands because of the spikes all over your body?

This is interesting where did you hear it? I calmly take it with my hands without any problems, and there is nothing . True, it can bite, but you really shouldn't grab saddlebags - they can probably bite through to meat, but you can safely grab steppe ones.

Today I caught Phaneroptera falcata.I didn't know that they exist in the Leningrad Region.

This post was edited by Decticus - 25.08.2012 21: 14

That's really cool!! Oh, it would be me.....))

Also, about a year ago, I found several specimens of Conocephalus discolor.I haven't seen any of them this summer

This post was edited by Decticus - 08/16/2012 21: 56

Here is a bit of my own content experience, if anyone is interested . Still, I did not find such global texts about the content, and I also tried to reveal a few "muddy" questions. And some more observations.

I have three terrariums and several small ones made of pots for plants and a plastic glued frame from the corners for the walls, covered with a mosquito net, so the problem of ventilation is completely absent - the air does not stagnate. On the front side, the mesh is attached to the edges with Velcro and thus the front side opens completely. Pot size-50linex19shirinx25?depth - the height of the structure is 50 cm, with a pot depth of 75 cm. The advantages of this type of content can be calculated.
1) Ventilation without problems.
2) Cages stand on the windowsill and do not take up much space, lighting is natural and does not require additional hassle (most of all new bats are demanding of solar thermal radiation in nature).
3) The need for an artificial interior of the terrarium disappears, plants grow in the ground, and with proper maintenance, the terrarium will look great.
4) Theoretically, there is no need for a separate egg-laying site for females. The soil in the terrarium contains not only plants - erect wings lay eggs in it, but this method is not fully tested, and when in the spring almost no one came out of the eggs, or there were few larvae compared to the number last year. To do this, females are planted separately for laying in specially designated pots with soil.

Disadvantages are also present.
1) Perhaps the most negative factor in a terrarium with soil is that the excrement falls to the ground and without regular cleaning begins to mold and rot, which negatively affects both larvae with imago, and probably eggs in the soil. This is especially annoying when there are a large number of individuals in the cage or there is no vegetation.
2) With poor care and a small amount of food, most long-whiskered erect wings begin to feed on plants and sometimes completely deprive the terrarium of greenery and kill large important plants, which looks very unpleasant.
3) Feeding is also sometimes problematic, food scattered on the soil often rots, becomes covered with fungus and mold, but if you feed moderately, the remains are eaten by other individuals. And food insects in such a terrarium, unlike an "arena" with sand or just a plastic box, can hide or escape more easily, so it is more difficult for blacksmiths to catch them.
4) Fresh food spoils quickly, it is necessary, but this is more likely to apply to any cages.

Regarding the content-I really care very lazily about the culture now, once a week or two I pour dry oatmeal and buckwheat flakes into the food tray, I rarely water them, the vegetation is so-so, I hardly clean the soil at all, there are still a lot of rotten remains and garbage.
1) Plant-based food:
Ideally, it should be fed with fruits: peaches, pears and berries of all kinds.
Long-whiskered erect-winged birds eat vegetables and herbs just as well: roccola and parsley, basil, if available. If there is no this in the terrarium growing sorrel and mulberry eat, I have already killed a lot of cool plants. This will feed well as phytophages among real grasshoppers, phaneroptera and other related subfamilies, as well as predatory tettigoniinae and all sorts of conecephalus. Crickets (common) eat all of the above, depending on the species, false grasshoppers and bears are not kept. The bradiporinae (a subfamily of fatwings and ephippigers from true grasshoppers) also eat it, but not actively. Effipigers feed exclusively on live plants and are very selective even in them.
Tettigoniinae-that is, grasshoppers of this subfamily, actively appreciated bread soaked in honey, unfortunately after a few days honey and bread dries up and becomes paste, grasshoppers stop eating it and it is sometimes difficult to scratch the remains of this food and throw it away, it sticks very well. It is likely that herbivorous grasshoppers will also feed on this.
2) "Live" food.
For phaneroptera and other herbivorous blacksmiths of the subfamilies pseudophyllinae, meconematinae and mecapodinae, of course, such food is not suitable.
Tolstuny feed on carrion and vegetation, but they were not kept, but only by efippigerov. Grasshoppers eat dead insects, often take food directly from their hands, if not to frighten. The most skittish in the content of decticus. Crickets and cultivated cockroaches are well suited as live food. In the absence of forage crops, you can catch fillies in the meadow, they are also very much loved by blacksmiths. Predatory grasshoppers can also safely eat small jumps-metriopter and bicolorian. It is worth noting that from the subfamily tettigoninae, the platycleidini tribe is mostly herbivorous, although I have also seen cannibalism in them.
As for feeding crickets, an adult tettigonia or decticus will need 2 brownie crickets per week(large ones!), and water every other day.This is at a minimum, and plant-based food can not be given, but cannibalism can be present. So it is better 3-4 times a week, or every day for a filly. It was indeed possible to keep Tettigonia, decticus and other representatives of the subfamily without live food, in addition, cannibalism was extremely rare, but grasshoppers still attacked each other and often broke each other's jumping limbs.
Sometimes blacksmiths can be "pampered" by catching small lizards, the length of the lizard should be approximately the same as the length of a grasshopper, with a tail. But they could only be hunted stably by dybki, most blacksmiths can scare lizard with sharp movements and jerks. Much more often grasshoppers attacked mantises, but this is not for our species, but for the larger southern ones. Anadrimadusa Retovsky in a terrarium with mantises was able to calmly attack a female pious mantis (a small Kiev average female, besides a little sluggish) and turn it over, and then bite off the head. one of the interesting features of the grasshopper diet is that it attacks prey and begins to eat it from the head, thereby protecting itself from further actions of the victim, and not like mantises, from the toad. Dybki so generally calmly overcome mantises, except for tree ones-it's not clear there, there were no fights, I didn't meet the mantis itself.

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I made a video with food, a female Anadrymadusa retowskii attacked a praying mantis.
http://youtu.be/AR66tIoCf3Y

I recently changed hay in Terre at the crickets'. I checked the bowl of sand for eggs... Not a single one! They have been living with me for almost 2 months now! All imagos! What is the reason for this? Maybe the females do not like the sand and it is better to replace it with the ground? I'm at a loss...

Next year I want to try to raise domestic crickets. Many sources indicate that their homeland is the Far East . But mostly (at least in August) I haven't met any home-made sverchevs. can you tell me where to look? Not in stores.

On breeding of the Sickle-winged Plate-wing (Phaneroptera falcata)... this year, there were 2 females (they have a sickle-shaped, curved up ovipositor? What do males look like?). What are the conditions for breeding? (Soil, food, size of the terrarium?)

Domestic crickets....they are also home-made, any or almost any conditions will suit them, just add a little humidity.
They used to live in a wooden house, so they lived under nightstands, behind tiles, in the toilet-and everywhere they couldn't reach.
And if your crickets run away from you to the neighbors?

23.09.12
Today I went to buy food for my last tettigonia-a male. There are still a lot of small straight-winged birds, but there are no more large ones - decticus and local tettigonia. Not a single sound can be heard, although on Friday I was walking from work through the vacant lot and heard the singing of tettigonias. Decticus was gone a little earlier, the last female I saw about a week ago in a dilapidated state. There is an idea that with a certain decrease in temperature, they stop eating and because of this they die (the last one they met had a very wrinkled abdomen). Strange, but there were no frosts yet, just the temperature kept +0..+10 (it did not fall below zero, because +0 was set). And today, in general, it is surprisingly warm +20 in the shade and sunny, there are a lot of small straight-winged birds.

I recently changed hay in Terre at the crickets'. I checked the bowl of sand for eggs... Not a single one! They have been living with me for almost 2 months now! All imagos! What is the reason for this? Maybe the females do not like the sand and it is better to replace it with the ground? I'm at a loss...

Next year I want to try to raise domestic crickets. Many sources indicate that their homeland is the Far East . But mostly (at least in August) I haven't met any home-made sverchevs. can you tell me where to look? Not in stores.

On breeding of the Sickle-winged Plate-wing (Phaneroptera falcata)... this year, there were 2 females (they have a sickle-shaped, curved up ovipositor? What do males look like?). What are the conditions for breeding? (Soil, food, size of the terrarium?)

I found a dead female in Terra yesterday.... From old age, I think. There are still 4-2 males and 2 females left... And there are still no eggs... What should I do?((

 
23.09.12
Today I went to buy food for my last tettigonia-a male. There are still a lot of small straight-winged birds, but there are no more large ones - decticus and local tettigonia. Not a single sound can be heard, although on Friday I was walking from work through the vacant lot and heard the singing of tettigonias. Decticus was gone a little earlier, the last female I saw about a week ago in a dilapidated state. There is an idea that with a certain decrease in temperature, they stop eating and because of this they die (the last one they met had a very wrinkled abdomen). Strange, but there were no frosts yet, just the temperature kept +0..+10 (it did not fall below zero, because +0 was set). And today, in general, it is surprisingly warm +20 in the shade and sunny, there are a lot of small straight-winged birds.

And we still have quite a lot of tettigonia cantans and small straight-winged ones, 22.09 I heard verrucivorus singing.

 

On breeding of the Sickle-winged Plate-wing (Phaneroptera falcata)... this year, there were 2 females (they have a sickle-shaped, curved up ovipositor? What do males look like?). What are the conditions for breeding? (Soil, food, size of the terrarium?)

Males look almost the same (see post #364)/I didn't breed plate wings, just tettigonias and decticuses.Ground in terr. For example, platypterans are herbivorous.

I have a problem. My acrometopa I decided to lay eggs, flew to the sofa and began to lay under the paneling. Where should she normally save money?

alex017, probably underground ( I think so...)?

I have another question. Looking through the photos, I paid attention to what the cages for keeping straight-winged birds are made of. And its material in every second photo looks like gauze. I was going to make one out of gauze - cheap and grumpy. But there was a doubt... Can erect wings chew through cheesecloth? Or does the material in the photo just look like gauze? From what and how can you make such a cage, maybe there is a MK?
Thank you in advance.

The tettigonians were trying to chew through the netting. Only I have a grid of 1mm or even thicker fishing line, the mandibles do not take. I've tasted everything, including me.

Acrometopa has free access to the ground and moves freely around the room (in the cage she stubbornly refused to eat, I had to give her freedom), I found her many times in different places (earth, plants), but this time she laid eggs under the sofa lining, so I thought that she had a different way of laying eggs.

This post was edited by alex017 - 25.09.2012 13: 38

Hi!
Here I can share my knowledge about phaneropterus and acrometropus, they do not lay eggs in the soil, like most jumps and ashy bush.
They deposit them in the same way as sawtails-in the stems of plants, so the sofa should have clearly hinted at this . I don't keep them because they don't put them in normal terrarium plants, and they spoil linden trees and trailers. Well, because of their herbivory.
Yes, the net is anti-mosquito, if for crickets then smaller. I think in the case of heating and lighting, it will be possible to use glass and ventilation thanks to fans from processors or more - from the system unit.
Helen0210: Remember, the larvae of crickets that have recently hatched from an egg are microscopic, even in a field cricket they are smaller than fleas; they are not grasshoppers.
If they do not put it, then in my opinion there may be two reasons: the first is that the soil does not fit or does not have the right parameters. Crickets prefer moist and well-ventilated ground without fungus, sand is not suitable in any way. Sometimes they can put eggs (brownies) even in wet cotton wool - the main thing is humidity and the fact that it would not freeze .
Here you can see everything in detail, despite the difference in species, everything is approximately the same with reproduction. http://youtu.be/ZnMojJOLEu4

Regarding tettigonia and verrucivorus in nature - I recently went to the meadows and heard with my own ears, but already among the rural houses in the village of tettigonia, there were no males, and several times I definitely heard them. This is the 23rd of September went. In the city, too, not so long ago, it seems that the sound was also heard from poplars. Unfortunately, the terrarium tettigonias were devoured by anadrimadousas for some reason, they may have died themselves, but there is no way to observe any more =(.

Death in grasshoppers in autumn almost always has the same symptoms - these are digestive problems and more or less (sorry) [spoiler]liquid excrement that leaves traces on the body of the grasshopper [/spoiler].
Regarding the power supply at low temperatures, I already have warm, lamp-type lighting ready. Insects can easily bask at incandescent lamps, but despite this, some move away. I hope that I can somehow prolong the life of my "old people" - I have one verrucivorus, five decticus albifrons, two anadrimadus and platycleis, ah, I also forgot the swordsman and the pleasantly singing stem cricket.
I found a field cricket larva on the lawn, and I'll be happy to try it this year and keep it in the winter. In the past, it did not work out - the larvae either did not fall into suspended animation, or they began to demand the sun too early, and died. Perhaps there is no suspended animation at all - I read that in sunny, warm weather they go out and warm themselves in the middle of winter.

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I can't even imagine what might happen now! This acrometope disappeared and reappeared, probably all my furniture is full of its eggs. Cool. During the night, it landed on me several times, as a result of which it is a little jammed, the first time I was a little scared.
What would you think up so that she could put a song?...

Somehow I'm bothered by the problem of mortality. Can they eat up lactobacilli? Or an antibiotic.... but how? He's nasty.

I have only one male T. cantansleft;I haven't found any females for a long time.And the Roeseliana roeseli jump.
Decticus, which I found a week ago
" Can they give them lactobacilli to eat? Or an antibiotic.... but how? " - alex017, it is unlikely that they will eat it.

This post was edited by Decticus - 28.09.2012 21: 11

I caught 2 singing grasshoppers, maybe they will live to see the winter .In the park, the trees are still chirping, but in the fields they are no longer there.

Ground in terr. required. plate-wings are herbivorous.

And.. where do they lay their eggs? And what kind of plants do they eat?

Yes, grasshoppers are noticeably sweating, just in front of your eyes. Lactobacilli (smeared on grub) do not want to eat. Although...the tettigonia chirped last night.

On the tall trees, and on the very tops, they also chirp here, but it's impossible to get them from there.

And.. where do they lay their eggs? And what kind of plants do they eat?

Eggs are laid seemingly in the stems of plants.I had them eat dandelion,plantain, some other plants; fruits and vegetables.

So all the same in the ground or plant stems?

Definitely not in the ground.In the stems, maybe in the leaves, in the bark of trees.

So all the same in the ground or plant stems?

I've already written it a bunch of times . They lay their eggs in the stems of plants. There seems to be more specific information on the Internet, but as for their bent ovipositor, quite a lot of articles have already been written

You can assume that all my blacksmiths are dead. A little weird, too fast or something....
The acrometope, which had been sitting quietly on my home bushes for about 4 months, began to try to crawl away somewhere. I was looking for a place for masonry. The behavior was getting more and more strange. At home, there is an abundance of different plants, for laying it was possible to choose according to taste, for example, in Washington, it has a" stalk " that is convenient for laying in folds.
She crawled on it at night....I don't know if I put it off or not... Further, the oddities in behavior intensified. Previously, she always sat on the top under the "sun", and in recent days she sat anywhere and did not eat. It seems that at the very end, she didn't even look for a place to put it off, but just wandered around aimlessly...

The male tettigonia seemed to be very cheerful a week ago, chattering, crawling along the walls actively and suddenly drooped, lost the ability to crawl along the glass walls, creeps dejectedly or sits on the ground, the last days it buries its head in the ground and so sits, it seems that this is the end.

I don't understand, but who is Acrometope? And where does it live?

29.09 caught a male D. verrucivorus.He lives with me now, quite cheerful, chirping.I wonder how long he'll last.
And today I accidentally found a female T. cantans sitting on a package near the road.

All the blacksmiths died today.
The male tettigonia sang just 2 days before death (but could no longer climb the wall). And he was cheerful (he still shied away from the hand), and then he was knocked down.
Akrometopa also went crazy in the literal sense, changed her behavior and began to crawl somewhere constantly and stopped eating.
Acrometopa sp last photo is in normal condition. I could sit like this for days on end, almost motionless.


This post was edited by alex017 - 01.10.2012 20: 29

I made a video with food, a female Anadrymadusa retowskii attacked a praying mantis.
http://youtu.be/AR66tIoCf3Y

Strange, some kind of mantis killed.. I once fed my dad albifrons in the Crimea and nothing.

Strange, some kind of mantis killed.. I once fed my dad albifrons in the Crimea and nothing.

I compared the praying mantis from Crimea and Kiev. There must have been a treehouse there. In addition, in the fall, mantises are all already sluggish.

29.09 caught a male D. verrucivorus.He lives with me now, quite cheerful, chirping.I wonder how long he'll last.
And today I accidentally found a female T. cantans sitting on a package near the road.

I was in Kiev the day before yesterday (03.10) I heard a green grasshopper from a maple tree, and the maple is already yellow. Such finds are interesting at this time, surprising, but most likely, the most interesting thing is to look for field crickets in the sun during the winter thaw .

You can assume that all my blacksmiths are dead. A little weird, too fast or something....
The acrometope, which had been sitting quietly on my home bushes for about 4 months, began to try to crawl away somewhere. I was looking for a place for masonry. The behavior was getting more and more strange. At home, there is an abundance of different plants, for laying it was possible to choose according to taste, for example, in Washington, it has a" stalk " that is convenient for laying in folds.
She crawled on it at night....I don't know if I put it off or not... Further, the oddities in behavior intensified. Previously, she always sat on the top under the "sun", and in recent days she sat anywhere and did not eat. It seems that at the very end, she didn't even look for a place to put it off, but just wandered around aimlessly...

The male tettigonia seemed to be very cheerful a week ago, chattering, crawling on the walls, and suddenly drooped, lost the ability to crawl on the glass walls, creeps dejectedly or sits on the ground, the last days it buries its head in the ground and so sits, it seems that this is the end.

Well, the situation is identical for me, most likely it's all from old age, it can often be assumed that digestive problems. In fact, this can happen in nature. Just leave later those who hatched early.

I compared the praying mantis from Crimea and Kiev. There must have been a treehouse there. In addition, in the fall, mantises are already sluggish.

No, just a normal male cow... He grabbed Albifrons off a leaf by the head, and ... chewed it off.

No, just a normal male cow... He grabbed Albifrons off a leaf by the head, and ... chewed it off.

Pfft, well, that's very unlikely. I very much doubt that albifrons is a normal sieden. Well, yes, they are big there, but it must be something that would be white-browed and just gave himself up to the praying mantis. And if the albifrons bite where it is necessary then immediately the praying mantis then it can deprive you of your life

By the way, I still have albifrons living Probably because of the heating amps

October tettigonia. I found Tettigonia viridissima among the dried brown grass, according to a song on a sunny day, and it is one of the last, it is interesting that it is very well preserved. That's what it looks like.
06.10.2012 under (north) By Kiev

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You probably haven't had any putties yet. We had -6 this week. And on the next +15 is expected.
It's strange that you're holding the monster's belly so calmly and it doesn't try to break free or bite your finger off [spoiler]was it even alive? [/spoiler].
The paws are intact, the whiskers are intact, the wings are slightly dented. Did you take it home?" How's your appetite?"

Verrucivorus died yesterday. Kantans are still quite active, they feed normally;the female laid eggs.
We haven't had any frosts yet, maybe I'll find someone today.

And I'll go to TUE-cf. I'll look for it. Although this is already a stupid idea. Well, at least I'll go to nature.

Yes, after freezing, it's probably a stupid idea to look for someone. I still have albifrons, eggs are laid, two anadrimaduses are intact, tettigonia is heated near the lamp. Although it was already cold outside, it was +6 degrees in the morning. Rain. The cricket has dug a hole and is hiding there. I noticed that last year the albifrons all went away in early September or even at the end of August, then I still did not do "heating", but now they sit under the lamps and calmly survive, eat normally. For complete happiness, there are probably not enough food insects. Most likely, grasshoppers die in the fall just from a lack of solar radiation.

Tettigonia is very easy to hold in your hand . They sometimes react so interestingly when you calmly get out of the box and the green one doesn't try to run away.
Yes, a little sluggish, those that were in the summer were very active, but in such dry grass and low greenery it was very easy to catch. Now it seems to be more frisky, I caught him a filly recently, I don't know what he eats, I didn't follow him, mostly he sits near the light bulb .
I don't know, but maybe verrucivorus would have lived longer in the warmth.

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