Life and Death of Mantis religiosa

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Марена, 21.09.2011 16:39

Hello dear forumchane. Help me figure it out.
I've had two mantis religiosa families for a while. Green male and yellow female. So the male, contrary to all canons, is still alive and well, and there are certain problems with the female.

A week passed, after the joy of the appearance of ooteka, as the female became aggressive. Incessantly "hissed", threw and generally behaved in a boorish way, which was not noticed before. In the morning of the next day, she no longer walked, just twitched her wings and hunted her legs.

It would seem that it is not surprising that the praying mantis dies at the end of September. But, today at lunchtime, the female was found motionless, but still alive. His head and the napkin under it were smeared with some sticky red-brown stuff.

Is this how she dies from "old age" or are there other options?

Along the way, the question is-how to arrange wintering ooteka? The refrigerator is only +10 degrees.

Comments

21.09.2011 17:26, Penzyak

Actually, the fact that you received an ooteka with eggs from a female is not a fact that mantis larvae will come out of them in the spring! In my experience, it has often happened that the eggs were not fertilized. For wintering, I simply put the ooteka in a paper or plastic cup on the balcony. It is only necessary in the spring not to miss the moment when the larvae come out and feed them in time with small insects...
Your female most likely died from some fungal disease - for example, last year there was such a funny case in our botanical garden. At the beginning of October, the workers cut some dry ornamental plants on the beds and put some of them in a vase on the table for the manager. Imagine her amazement and fright when, a month later, to her surprise, she saw a live female praying mantis on a dry bouquet! Where it then went and when is unknown-probably it was eaten by a cat...