Maintenance of Orthoptera

Now I gave my " pet " 3 fillies. The room with closed blinds is quite bright. She grabbed the first one instantly, and immediately with 4 legs and staying at the bottom of the aquarium on her stomach and relying only on her hind legs, she began to gut it. When she stopped kicking, I carried her up "in my teeth", but then I bumped into the second filly and grabbed her with my front legs and plopped her to the bottom, where I dug in again with 4 legs. Finishing the second one with her feet, she took it together with the first one "in her teeth" and crawled upstairs to finish it. When eating, it held its prey with two front and one middle legs. She was holding on to the netting that covered the wall. It's a pity I didn't have time to take a picture, and it probably won't work out, because when approaching the aquarium, it starts to get noticeably nervous and try to hide
A beautiful and interesting animal, not a match for praying mantises

I have small domestic albifrons eats.
Quite understandable behavior, I have exactly the same.
About the dybka-grasshopper needs direct sunlight in order to bask under it, or a similar artificial one, without it the larvae often did not shed for a very long time and even died. A small area with falling rays of the sun during the day is quite enough, saga if she wants to climb herself to where it's warm
As for adults, adults, although not so much, but also need a "sun bath", in general, almost all grasshoppers love it.

I have a lot of small fillies jumping in the yard of a private house, and I feed them.
I put it on the windowsill and bent several sections of blinds to give it a place for "sunbathing"
how many times do you think it will shed? does it need extra moisture (spraying) to molt?
I found it, on a very strange, floristic and similar hydrological composition, glade. A sandy xerophytic clearing, in the middle of a mixed forest, but also there were already fruit-bearing irises mixed with steppe cherries, and I won't say anything about swarming apollons, in short, a typical steppe, if not for a pine forest for many kilometers

  
But one of the favorite species of grasshoppers that I would really like to catch at least once, it is curious that its hunting and behavior are like those of a dybka, and its morphological build resembles our tettigoninae. However, they are generally referred to a different subfamily.
http://youtu.be/QcmYJzwtC7M

Maybe Saga hellenica?

AGG, how's your ass doing?Does it already lay eggs?

Once again, someone very large, gray in color, jumped out from under his feet and flew into the bushes for 50 meters! I couldn't find this person.

When " it " flies away and it is no longer possible to find it, then "it" immediately increases significantly in size!! This is a proven technique!
In fact, it was just a fat female

Oh, come on?

promised photos of dybki in nature

is there a photo of the area where it was found?

Oh, come on?

Ruspolia nitidula! I thought it was found in the south, but it turned out to be there as well. They love river valleys and tall grass, and even more reeds.

With their raking paws.. It's easy to bite through until it bleeds, so I wouldn't recommend taking too much risk for the grasshopper. Especially if there's a female.