Mantis care

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Anna2909, 12.11.2021 13:36

Hello, I'm new to the forum. August 31 in the forest found a praying mantis girl the next day zbezhala and postponed ooteka on the baseboard, it's been two months nothing happens then read about diapause but religious it seems not needed. Question is it already dead or are the eggs still alive and hatching? She also had black spots on her eyes it's necrosis from old age or something else plus she gave birth to three more clutches but I was a fool to think that one would be enough for me and threw them out. I will also attach the file I yoto of her aquarium, maybe something needs to be changed

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14.11.2021 0:04, Hierophis

A cold diapause is really not necessary for a religionist, and indeed, usually after about two months hatching occurs, for example, I also have a religionist now, I did not find one of the ooteks and did not take it out, respectively. mantises hatched out of it, although sometimes later, sometimes I forgot about the ooteka I brought in the summer, and it worked somewhere in the beginning of winter. So wait)
But there are nuances, one of them is an unfertilized oviposition, according to my observations, nothing hatches from such an ootheca(it just happens in insects that unfertilized eggs hatch, but this does not seem to be the case). This is also affected by cooling, if it was-then you need to wait much longer.
And there is another nuance-maybe you have a tree mantis? For them, the cold is also not required, but the ooteka can lie for up to five months.