So I had this nice, cherry-sized ooth of H. multispina (mantis) sitting in it's hatching chamber for a couple of weeks.
I must have knocked the lid or something....
Yesterday, while out shopping, they ooth hatched. Now, at cherry-size, most people would expect, oh, 20 or 30 babies....
Yeah....
More like between 200 and 300 hatched....and while there were still a good number in the chamber, they were also all over the entire mantis tank (where I keep my cages), up the wall, on the mantle peice (of couse, there guys are kept in the living room)....everywhere. Thankfully most of them hadn't gotten far, but what a fiasco!
My daughters and I spent about a hour rounding them all up. I still found one more this moring.
I just hope none end up on my wife's pillow, or I am likely not to live out the day....
I must have knocked the lid or something....
Yesterday, while out shopping, they ooth hatched. Now, at cherry-size, most people would expect, oh, 20 or 30 babies....
Yeah....
More like between 200 and 300 hatched....and while there were still a good number in the chamber, they were also all over the entire mantis tank (where I keep my cages), up the wall, on the mantle peice (of couse, there guys are kept in the living room)....everywhere. Thankfully most of them hadn't gotten far, but what a fiasco!
My daughters and I spent about a hour rounding them all up. I still found one more this moring.
I just hope none end up on my wife's pillow, or I am likely not to live out the day....