The male in the picture is around 52mm long and the female is around 64mm long.
I found these in a park a few days ago in a grass field. I have no idea what they are. Can anybody help identifying them?
The male in the picture is around 52mm long and the female is around 64mm long.
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I do not think any hatched yesterday. But maybe some hatched today (I don't know). The nymphs are much more calm now, they used to just run around a lot but now they flatten out and stay very still when scared. They eat better
I looked at the nymphs at 9:30 in the morning today but saw no new nymphs. If any nymphs did hatch today only a few and early. But I do not see more of that stuff on the oothecae that is like the molt skin. Right now at about 1:25 at night it is about 48 degrees. I brought the nymphs inside to give them more fruit flies and after just about two minutes or so one grabbed a fruit fly. I am not sure if they would do that when they were outside where it is cold but maybe.
Only a few more seem to have hatched today. Only two that I know but maybe a few more hatched earlier today and changed color so that I could not see any different between the others.
I found some small black fruit fly like insects. They are around 1.5mm long. They make the Drosophila melanogaster look big (I am guessing that the common wild fruit flies in our house are D. melanogaster). I am trying to breed them. They are maybe the same size or a little smaller than the wingless Drosophila melanogaster when the culture is almost dead (I guess less food makes them smaller). When the fruit fly culture is just about done it makes tiny fruit flies. I raised wingless Drosophila melanogaster on apple and it made them a lot smaller than when they were raised on Josh's Frogs fruit fly media or Repashy's fruit fly media which is good, I mean my mantises ate the smaller fruit flies better.
None seem to have hatched today. I checked at about 11 in the morning. I counted (hard to count them) them and if anymore did hatch it is probably less than 5. Two more nymphs died. I have seen L1 nymphs eat each other last time I had Carolina Mantids. They leave a lot left of their sibling and I could not see much gone, the head and everything else were intact. I kept a few fruit flies in the net cage for a while then yesterday I took them all out. I think the fruit flies stress them out. But when I add the fruit flies back in they eat very well. Those two nymphs that were dead might have been killed by another nymph but could easily be something else I guess. It is unusual for L1 nymphs to eat each other and just about all of them would starve instead of eating each other. I saw one L1 nymph eat a D. hydei today. It was chewing on the head and then a little bit later it let it go. A few times I have seen them try and catch the big D. hydei fruit flies but they could not. Most of the time the D. hydei are scaring the nymphs, making the nymphs run.
I caught a few Ischnoptera deropeltiformis a few weeks ago. They were in oak leaves and other kind of dead leaves on the ground under trees. But there were none where there were many pine needles. I found many Cariblatta lutea there too. I would find the Ischnoptera deropeltiformis only in the wet parts under the leaves. There were many more males than females and most were sub-adult but a few were a lot younger. I found very few Parcoblatta (I guess P. virginica) where the Ischnoptera deropeltiformis were but I found many Parcoblatta in wood (dryer wood and moist wood). One female from Granville, NC molted to adult over a week ago. I have one adult male which I caught as an adult in Granville, NC. They did not eat much of mango or banana or dog food or other stuff but they loved apple. I keep them moist with
Two more hatched today at about 10:30 in the morning. One of the nymphs are eating a big Drosophila melangu, probably one of the nymphs that hatched yesterday.
Six nymphs hatched today. All looked fine when I first saw them in the afternoon. But one started getting weaker in the evening and will probably die. When I saw them they were already hard so they molted a while ago.
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