Babies everywhere!!!!!

Well hes the story. About 6 months ago I found a praying mantis at work me being a geek took it home and kept it as a pet. I had "Larry" for a while and he was doing great until he laid 5 clusters of eggs. lol. Soo larry is a she. ok well sadly larry finally passed and I was left with eggs I put them in a small plastic container with an open top thinking they would never hatch anyways so I put them in th e garage. Well about a month ago I happened to be in the garage and noticed this little tiny Larry in the container and was shocked I had no idea they hatched. WEll thinking that he was either the only survivor or the only one stupid enough not to escape I brought him in my room where he has been living. Well about 20 minutes ago I noticed something walking on my desk and turned on the light to see what it was. TO my surprise it was another larry. When I was trying to capture him/her I found another then another then another. So far I have found about 25. No idea how many i have missed or how many have made it to freedom outside. but this is just weird. All I can say is atleast they are cool bugs. here are a few pics if anyone cares. lol.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...r/SNC10543.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...r/SNC10540.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y27...r/SNC10542.jpg

thats pretty cool man. those things scare me. one of the only two animals i am scared of. that and bats. ewww.

Their mom "Larry" was really cool she would take crickets outta my hand and man she was a eater. Now I know why keep in mind she was named before I knew her sex lol. Cant wait to see some of them grow up I am going to have to separate them soon they are cannibalistic.

They are some cool little ones :gj:.When i was a kid i made wire cage like things and actually had a few females(aka larry's lol) lay some egg sacks.I left them inside then placed them in my garden area and never had any bug problems :rofl:

yeah they usually have around 100 babies. do you know what species it is? or have a pic of "larry"

I do have some pics somewhere I will try to find them.

Well I found the pics but they are on my micro sd card in my phone and I dont have anyway to upload them right now. All I know is Larry was tanish brown. found it in irvine where I work.

Did it happen to look like this?

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...so/100_194.jpg

I just happen to have this picture on my photobucket, this one I found in my backyard on a chair.

no only brownish tan no green and its wings if thats what they are where about a 1/3 that size and were reddish when she would get angry and raise them up.

Awww...it's like Charlotte.

Very cool! Are you planning on letting the little 'Larrys' go or are they going to live a pampered lifestyle at casa de trogdor?

well found another 18 larry's when I got home today I se them free in the back yard hopefully I can start a breeding colony in my yard that would be awesome.

I love mantis'. We had one that lived in hour tree out side our front door. She actually jumped out of it one day and landed on me. Scared the living daylights out of me.

I fed her crickets too. Never saw any babies though!

hopefully setting soo many free in such a small area they might stick around and breed here.

Well I set all of those baby mantids(sp) free last night in my yard by some weeds that have lots of aphids so they will have food. Heres the bad news when I got home the yard had been mowed :( Highly unlikly that anything in there would survive. Poor things I should have left then im my room. :(:(

Oh no! :tears:

I'm sure some of the babies would have moved off that patch of weeds to other places, so some should have survived. You may have a nice mantis colony in your yard yet.

My grandma had a pair way back when. They mated and had babies. She didn't think it was a big deal until they hatched and she had a hundred or so babies crawling around her apartment EVERYWHERE. She just kept finding more and more, and didn't want to kill the babies of her pets, so she lived with a praying mantis infestation for ages. We still laugh at her for it. :rolleyes: