Maintenance of Orthoptera

Yes, but it was already snowing for the first time..

After all, as I understand it, they end early, but some cantans are still alive at the end of October, this year I took one on October 24, lived a little more than a week.

In my opinion, caudat is easier to catch than viridissim. They don't fly that far and are more often found in thickets of grass than in bushes.

As for the ease of capture, I agree, but it is very difficult to find them in the Moscow region. The nearest place with caudates is located 40 km from the cottage. Yes, and then - 30 m2.

Why is there so little talk about swamp fillies? Are they hard to get? I was just lucky that a fairly large swamp with them is located next to the country house literally 6 m away, the strangest thing is that you can find a larva of stage 3 in October. And often come across purple individuals, it is not pink.

Why is there so little talk about swamp fillies? Are they hard to get? I was just lucky that a fairly large swamp with them is located next to the country house literally 6 m away, the strangest thing is that you can find a larva of stage 3 in October. And often come across purple individuals, it is not pink.

In general, Nikolai (Decticus) kept them, says that they even made pods.

TheKatydid, did you keep them?

Yes, I caught swamp fillies in Mari El, a long time ago. And in 2019, I caught about 10 individuals in Belarus and brought them to Gatchina. One lived to see the 20th of October.
They also live in the Leningrad region, Kolez found them earlier and this year too.

The post was edited by Decticus - 27.11.2020 16: 29

The post was edited by Decticus - 27.11.2020 16: 28

I went to Turkey in 2010, when I was just starting to study straight-winged birds, I don't remember in May or June. And instead of the small larva of the Anatolian dyba ( 4-5 centimeters) that I came across, I took an acrid-it was bigger! I still regret it.

  

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Is it a female? Didn't measure it? It seems to me not large, but the color is really rare

Yes, female, not measured.

Interestingly, I've only ever seen females of this color.
Here is a filly from Mari El, 2011.

Decticus, indeed, I only found one male of a strange color, it was late, gray, and the contours were clearly highlighted

Has anyone on this forum ever had locusts hatched?

Saranchouk, I put it off yesterday. I put the eggs in a container of wet sand and put them on the windowsill. Do you have locust eggs in what conditions were they and after what time did the larvae hatch?

Decticus, I put them a container of wet coconut substrate, they put it away, but I just kept it moist and didn't put it away. They hatched in 15 days. The desert ones are much more complicated.

Can you somehow save locusts from severe poisoning? I gave them too young oats, ate one 5-cm blade of grass. My paws started twitching and I've been breathing hard for 4 hours now. They were lying almost on their sides.It seems that there are improvements, but not strong ones.

Forgot to say, they are imago

Hello, fools! I am terminally ill myself, but my sister Kamille leaves you the ussuriensis she will grow them.

Grigory, live!

I'll be with you but I can't leave

Em... Thank you, of course, but we keep straight wings here, not canids.

mmm, now-would discuss canids in the topic of straight-winged ones)

This post was edited by Kolez - 12/25/2020 02: 46

Saranchouk, here I am! I came out of the waters of Japan, now I can write in Russian. Look, I used to keep wolfhounds, but your job is too late....esa is not appropriate. You, khokhlo...would you ever survive a tettigonia imago for up to 14 months? Read the comments above and don't tell me what you didn't achieve..

GrigorY66, what did I not achieve? I don't understand. And here tettigonia, wolfhounds and khokhlo...byy? The only thing I wrote about was eggs and dol...locusts that spread and then died all at once.

Saranchouk, everything that flares up quickly also goes out. We're all walking under the same moon, bro. Here everyone is looking for something 11

Kolez, GrigorY66, Saranchouk and all the others, congratulations on the upcoming year.


This post was edited by Decticus - 12/31/2020 17: 40

Kolez, GrigorY66, Saranchouk and all the others, congratulations on the upcoming year.

Oooh, my piccha) I sincerely congratulate everyone on the past NG, I wish all forum participants great happiness, good health, good luck and more grasshoppers)))))

By the way, guys, it turns out that grasshoppers of the Oncodopus janetae species are monogamous mb. I also found out that colossopuses are omnivorous.
A study that mentions the possible monogamy of oncodopuses: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/myste...-in-madagascar/

Текст оттуда: "Two scientists have described several new species of bush-crickets in Madagascar, many of which exhibit unusual behaviours. Observations of these insects suggest that they could be monogamous, a behaviour which is extremely rare in insects. George Beccaloni, co-author of the paper, witnessed male and female Oncodopus janetae resting together in a sheltered cavity, described as a harbourage. “I have a theory as to why these bush-crickets have evolved their odd, possibly monogamous, behaviour,” says Beccaloni.
“Because of the harsh, hot conditions during the day in the dry forests in which they live, they evolved to shelter in harbourages during the day (unlike most other bush-crickets). This led to the reduction of their wings (which might get damaged in tight holes) and the evolution of their mate-guarding behaviour, as harbourages are scarce.” In order to ensure that the male mates with the female, he may need to guard her against other males. A number of other factors have not yet been researched, such as whether a male guards the female when they are outside of the harbourage.




A study with a detailed description of colossopuses and their feeding: https://www.gbif.org/ru/species/135489690

Text from the same study: "C . grandidieri is omnivorous, feeding on a wide range of leaves and fruit, as well as living and dead insects, and manufactured food, e.g. lettuce, Rubus and Quercus leaves, rose flowers, zucchini, cucumber, banana ( Röhrs 2017 ), living crickets, cockroaches, moths and Zophobas morio larvae ( Fritzsche 2008 ), dried Tenebrio molitor larvae, dog food and fish flakes (Guillermo González, pers. commun., 2017). All instars of both sexes have raptorial forelegs, which are used to grasp living prey as well as being used for defence (see below)."


Well, as we can see, blacksmiths can be guided not only by instincts, male oncodopuses protect females from other males and PERHAPS adults of this species are monogamous, and colossopuses feed at home on leaves, fruits, cockroaches, crickets, moths, zophobas and dead insects. =)

Something from the quoted text, I didn't see it. It is not necessary to extrapolate the sexual instincts of human males to all types of animals, many of them are inherent in instinctive monogamy, because reproductive strategies are very different 

Of course, there is hardly a single animal whose behavior is completely unconditionally reflexive (instinctive). But it is counterproductive to look for some high matters, for example, in the tender embrace of an inseparable pair of schistosomes

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https://sarov.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&...kaya&start=28770 some dybka caught a sparrow. True, I've been wondering for a long time whether it's saddleback (Saga ephippigera) or Anatolian(Saga natoliae). By the way, how to distinguish between these dybok?

Decticus, hi. How are your yearlings still puffing? I wish all your pets on the forum to meet NG (although their life is no longer life, but existence, like a deep old man under a dropper). But nevertheless...! Camilla still shows signs of life in one of the Spanish viri females of that year. I picked up all sorts of eggs in Japan-sedaks, short-winged sedak and ussuriensis, well, I can't say for sure their species. I won't bring it, I was thrown from Japan to the defense of China - another year. So keep in touch! Sincerely, those who communicated with me (Kolez, Decticus, etc.)

GrigorY66, my last grasshoppers died in November. The longest lived female conehead.

hi all, guys) In short, I recently found another article, only on the steppe dybka. It says that " the steppe dybka outplays the common praying mantis."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32..._praying_mantis

Probably, a puny male cow and tettigonia will "outplay". But the female is unlikely to be mastered by a steppe dybka. Although there is still a lot depends on the case-who will grab whom for what place. Although most likely no one will grab anyone: the owl will take a defensive stance, begin to rustle its wings and "box", and the rack will be confused and retreat with a jump.

The cone-head, I take it, is a swordsman of some sort?" From the Caucasus? By the way, Sister Viri still has a female alive, but she has turned black and drinks only water and does not eat anything (as she told me) and crawls all the time to the top. He's dying. Now it is probably no longer there, well, it is old, it has been standing since May imago

GrigorY66, the cone-headed Ruspolia nitidula, belongs to the swordfish subfamily Conocephalinae. I caught them in the Crimea; they should also be in the Caucasus.

Decticus, thank you, friend, I'll know now. Although I guessed it)