No Mystery

[urbpan]

How did rockbalancer and I become such good friends so quickly?

Does this jar of baby mantises answer your question??

Comments

[apathy.livejournal.com]

ive noticed those don't do so well in captivity. either that or its normal for a large portion to die, heh, and i dont mean cannabalism

[bellisaurius.livejournal.com]

That's been my experience with butterflies. I wonder if most insect young have a really high non-survival rate at the young part of life.

[apathy.livejournal.com]

with our mantis', after most of the young ones die out, the rest of them usually die when a molting process goes wrong. they come out of their old shell fucked up and eventually die. and only 4-5 from an eggcasing seem to live till old age, oldest being females.

butterflies, how fun!

[bellisaurius.livejournal.com]

I voluntered at a local nature museum. I really enjoyed it, I kind of wish I could have kept doing it. It was a good change of pace from chemical engineering.

Now that you mention it, the chrysallis stage was really a killer too. I could see a lot of kids look dissapointed when the poor thing fell off, and its wings never got expanded.

[zipotle.livejournal.com]

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE!

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

AW OMG they are so cute!!! :)

[momomom.livejournal.com]

Won't they eat each other?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Oh my, yes.

[cavalaxis]

Aw! How does one go about acquiuring such wonders?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

http://www.mantisusa.4t.com/

http://www.mantisuk.com/forsale/default.asp

http://www.mantisphotos.com/index.htm

Or you could (as I believe rockbalancer did) collect an ootheca and hatch them yourself.

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

The ones we hatched mostly ate each other and they had a whole porch to spread out in. Only a few survived.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

holy crap your icon is amazing.

[thefoodziggurat.livejournal.com]

Hello. Would you mind terribly if I added you to my friends list? I live on the South Shore, and I found you through a link someone had posted on one of the lj gardening communities I belong to. I might be in the suburbs now, but I miss the city, and your 365 species list is wonderful!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I don't mind at all! thanks for asking (and I don't mind if people add me without asking, either).

I was wondering what was up: suddenly 8 or 10 people added me out of the blue! That hasn't happened since I was on lj spotlight.

[thefoodziggurat.livejournal.com]

Someone on our gardening community posted a link. It's an extremely active community, especially this time of year, so you might get some more friends before the day's out.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Mantids rock!

...Although I wouldn't leave them all in the same jar for too long *g*

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!