Hey all, I took a lovely lady above my butterfly bushs' Ootheca last fall.
She was a Carolina Mantis & unfortunately she birthed her ootheca on my insect carrier box's lid. Eventually the natural adhesive failed & it fell to the moss below. I can't tell if it crystallized over winter, so a means to determine that would be great. I want to know the viability of this lovely egg casing if I were to adhere it to the recently constructed screen ceiling w/ escape gaps of a terrarium & heat the sucker up as the season approaches. I'm interested in livestreaming the hatching & first instar stage. I have a 10"x20" terarrium, heater, weevil colony & can get fruit fly colonies easily if that's more preferred as food over cannibalizing. Inevitably they will all be released to my local land as a non-invasive species.
If you read this & know about mantids, please tell me everything, I wanna do it right.
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