Maintenance of Orthoptera

Interestingly, one of the grasshoppers that hatched in early April turned out to be T. cantans.If I'm not mistaken, it has rounded wings and eyes of a different color.I can't determine exactly yet, it is predredimago.
06.05 faded (predimago) - exactly a cantance.

This post was edited by Decticus - 06.05.2013 21: 33

Jump hatched today.

I found an interesting anadrimaduz in Israel, as far as I can take it correctly with the genus, I may have caught a representative of the genus medecticus, which is very pleasing, a single female. Very nezhidanno caught.

Something about the topic has completely stalled.Does anyone on the forum still contain any pryamoptera, except for me and Danmar?

Hardly. I decided to start some sticks after all.

I'm holding on and I'll keep holding on until they die!
A terrarium, of course. I think it is more spacious and needed with abundant plants due to the voracity of grasshoppers

  
A terrarium, of course. I think it is more spacious and needed with abundant plants due to the voracity of grasshoppers

I totally agree with you.And what are you wearing now, isn't it spacious and low on plants?

In my opinion, verucivorus appeared earlier this year.There are already a lot of predimago, usually they grow up like this by the end of June.

This post was edited by Decticus - 13.06.2013 13: 12

Hardly. I decided to start some sticks after all.

Palochnikov or something? Which ones?

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=529539
Here are such))

Oh, I see.I didn't keep stickmen, I don't know much about them.

Yes me too. They are very delicate and fragile. And maybe finicky in the feed.

They are very delicate and fragile.

There are also such stick insects:
(Eurycantha calcarata, giant New Guinea spiny stick beetle)
they're definitely not fragile)

This post was edited by Decticus - 13.06.2013 15: 55

I meant my own people. The seller who sold me yayki had other hefty species, but I like stick insects that are fully similar to a stick, elegant, thin, low - crunching, because winter is just around the corner, food is scarce. So I chose this view))

Good day to all! I was patiently waiting in Moscow for the Verrucevoruses to fade into imago.. So I didn't wait, I went to the field yesterday and scored 7 pieces + 3 singing grasshoppers. Now I've given them a terrarium and provided them with food. But the imago doesn't even smell there yet.. Today, one chorister has already shed (probably the last molt). I've never raised grasshoppers before, only mantises. Now there is time for your favorite decticuses.. If I understand everything correctly, you need sand where the eggs will be laid. In winter, they need to be placed on the balcony (I have no idea about the temperature conditions, so I ask). With tettigonias probably also? Now proper feeding: I give my own dandelion leaves and sliced cucumber slices. Do I need animal food? I'm afraid they might start eating each other? And one more question: do you need moisture when molting? Many thanks to all the specialists in advance!

And the topic is too lazy to read? It is the most valuable thing in terms of grasshopper content in Runet!

Good day to all! I was patiently waiting in Moscow for the Verrucevoruses to fade into imago.. So I didn't wait, I went to the field yesterday and scored 7 pieces + 3 singing grasshoppers. Now I've given them a terrarium and provided them with food. But the imago doesn't even smell there yet.. Today, one chorister has already shed (probably the last molt). I've never raised grasshoppers before, only mantises. Now there is time for your favorite decticuses.. If I understand everything correctly, you need sand where the eggs will be laid. In winter, they need to be placed on the balcony (I have no idea about the temperature conditions, so I ask). With tettigonias probably also? Now proper feeding: I give my own dandelion leaves and sliced cucumber slices. Do I need animal food? I'm afraid they might start eating each other? And one more question: do you need moisture when molting? Many thanks to all the specialists in advance!

In fact, Anax chernobila, in this topic is about 3-6 pages long. there are answers to your questions.
By the way, I advise you to get Tettigonia caudata.You should have them in the Moscow region
. P.S. It is better to keep decticus apart from tettigonii(I usually ate d. t.)

Thank you, but I've only seen the Tailed Grasshopper once... On Vodniki a year ago. Since then, I've been searching, tracking, and listening. No use, just the Choristers. While they are small, I keep them in a spacious aquarium, and I prepare a permanent residence.. I think I'll finish it tomorrow and set it up. Many decticuses have faded, while no aggression was observed (tettigonia is now larger). So, rather, we should worry about verrutsevorusov.. I think you should plant a clover bush with both?

so far, no aggression has been observed (tettigonia is now larger). So, rather, we should worry about verrutsevorusov..

and I have the opposite-decticus larger, almost all predimago.
If the clover is planted, they will eat it.
the plant on which the grasshopper sits, I planted last year and they did not eat a single leaf

And what kind of plant will they not eat? I read the topic, but I still don't understand it: which is better for masonry, earth or sand?

XS, when hungry, can eat anything.Live food should also be given(fillies, beetles, caterpillars, etc.)
For masonry, a mixture of earth and sand is suitable.

This post was edited by Decticus - 06/18/2013 17: 58

The first cantance faded into imago. The others are all already predimago. However, only one male of the Verrucevorans reached this stage. I've built an insectarium for smaller grasshoppers. Does anyone have any experience with the content of an Ordinary jump? And on the street for a week now, skates have been singing right on the road. So, I will soon collect live food for my pets.

This post was edited by Anax chernobila-06/20/2013 07: 59

Does anyone have any experience with the content of an Ordinary jump?

Metrioptera roeseli? I kept them of course,but for me so nothing interesting, a trifle.
one verrucivorus has already faded into an imago

This post was edited by Decticus - 21.06.2013 15: 02

Finally, all the decticuses faded into predimago.. Now I'm waiting for the last molt.

To Decticus: Yes, I meant this species. It's just that we have more of them in Moscow than the rest of the little things (specifically my district). So I think it's good food for both the larger blacksmiths and the praying mantises..

Good day to all! I was patiently waiting in Moscow for the Verrucevoruses to fade into imago.. So I didn't wait, I went to the field yesterday and scored 7 pieces + 3 singing grasshoppers. Now I've given them a terrarium and provided them with food. But the imago doesn't even smell there yet.. Today, one chorister has already shed (probably the last molt). I've never raised grasshoppers before, only mantises. Now there is time for your favorite decticuses.. If I understand everything correctly, you need sand where the eggs will be laid. In winter, they need to be placed on the balcony (I have no idea about the temperature conditions, so I ask). With tettigonias probably also? Now proper feeding: I give my own dandelion leaves and sliced cucumber slices. Do I need animal food? I'm afraid they might start eating each other? And one more question: do you need moisture when molting? Many thanks to all the specialists in advance!

As far as I have noticed, grasshoppers from the Tettigoniinae subfamily, that is, the same Decticus and tettigonia are not picky about the substrate and will lay eggs almost anywhere. I don't remember what the humidity should be in the soil, it's better like in nature, personally, I had problems with the content-in winter you need to cool the soil, the larvae came out in the spring, well, quite spontaneously and in incomprehensible quantities, our species have a few larvae, I can see that I cooled the soil badly, so I think it's worth cooling, but not too much - after all, in winter, the soil temperature is not as low as the air temperature.
They eat different plant foods, but without animals, they begin to show cannibalism and attack each other. They drink water. Not sovsetuyu contain together with the soil-excrement gets on it and starts fungus, clogging and other problems, maybe with a large volume I can solve this problem.

my decticuses are almost all imago.One is already chirping.
Anax chernobila, we also have a lot of jumps and I have been using them for a long time as food for large grasshoppers.Only it's harder for them to catch a horse race than a filly.

Decticus we already have in nature chirp for a week. What is the reason for the delay at home? After all, in theory, they should have appeared earlier.

In our area, decticuses are usually winged in the beginning. July; last year I found a few preimagos at the end of July, so that's fine.

This post was edited by Decticus - 27.06.2013 16: 48

We don't have many fillies, but we have a lot of grasshoppers. I heard the first decticus yesterday, but I didn't dare catch it, there were a lot of people... And the songbirds are already beginning to mate, it's time for the females to provide sand.. Do fungal excrements cause fungi in the sand?

I have not experimented with sand, I myself think that it is not very good - it can hold moisture worse.
Excrement, it seems, still begins to decompose and in a humid environment, not very pleasant things happen to them, as far as I remember. But not like on the ground.

Do fungal excrements cause fungi in the sand?

If the sand is dry, then no.
I heard dektikusov today in 3-4 different places, but the singers are still predimago, we have them closer to the middle of July they begin to sing.

This post was edited by Decticus - 06/29/2013 13: 50

The opposite is true: The choristers have been singing for a week, the Decticuses only started yesterday, today I heard four, but caught only 2 ... And the races have been singing for two or three weeks. Can you tell me who saw exactly where in the MO you can meet the tailed blacksmith?

The day before yesterday, I already caught an adult male T. caudata on raspberries and released it. Blacksmiths have already grown up in the Moscow region

There should still be viridissims in the MO.They're more common there than the Caudates, aren't they?"

There should still be viridissims in the MO.They're more common there than the Caudates, aren't they?"

Probably much more.

There should still be viridissims in the MO.They're more common there than the Caudates, aren't they?"

Probably much more.

That's exactly what"probably" is.......
But in fact, I often meet T. cantans, less often T. caudata.
T. viridissima has never been found in all the time: it's probably south of here.

I saw T. viridissima in the Bryansk region 2 years ago, and there were also T. cantans. Only T. cantans is found in my area, I saw T. caudata once, but only once. And where are there permanent populations of T. caudata in MO?

And in general it is interesting: who saw any grasshoppers in MO? Maybe something unusual will come across... I personally observe T. cantans, Decticus verrucivorus, Metrioptera roeseli, Conocephalus discolor, and Phaneroptera falcata every year. Once, as I said, I saw T. caudata. To the north, Metriopera bicolor and Pholidoptera griseoaptera were found. I wonder what else we have here...

And where are there permanent populations of T. caudata in MO?

Half a kilometer from my house. A little bit of it, but I meet it constantly for several years already.

And in general it is interesting: who saw any grasshoppers in MO? Maybe something unusual will come across... I wonder what else we have here...

Anax chernobila, you once wrote last year in the topic "Definition of straight-winged birds" that you found white-fronted grasshoppers in the MO.Where are they coming from?Didn't get caught again?

Anax chernobila, you once wrote last year in the topic "Definition of straight-winged birds" that you found white-fronted grasshoppers in the MO.Where are they coming from?Didn't get caught again?

It's not exactly in MO.. This is at the dacha, the village of Mukhanovo. In the past and 2011 really were, this has not yet traveled, so I do not know. But in the past, their numbers have declined dramatically. Not everyone must have survived the winter. Still, it remains a mystery how they got there in the first place.