None seem to have hatched. I guess it is done hatching. Three nymphs are L2 now. The first one molted about a week ago (it was one of the ones that hatched on the first or second day).
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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.
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.
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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