Swayne8998
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I know that no pesticides are sprayed. I'm seeing if I can breed them so that makes them safer. Variety is always good.
Good idea!
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I know that no pesticides are sprayed. I'm seeing if I can breed them so that makes them safer. Variety is always good.
Feed them romain lettuce,rose leaves,or any bramble plant like blackberry and raspberry leaves mist them 1 time a day keep them in a screen or net set up with lots of sticks to climb and lay there eggs on. I breed 3 different kinds of katydids and 2 breed and lay eggs all year long and hatch a room temp in 20 to 30 days . The one you have there lays 2 to 3 times a year and the eggs need to be cooled to 50 or 60 degrees for a month to break dipause. They will hatch from 3 months to 9 months.... Also most katydids lay there eggs on sticks. I breed grass hoppers to 5 different species. 3 are seasonal and give me eggs one to 2 times a year and take 3 months to a year to hatch the other 2 a stimulated by temp and if keap warm breed and lay all year and eggs hatch fast to. They are a swarm locust/grasshopper..... They also lay there eggs in dirt instead of on sticks ....
Oh and TPM I should be getting eggs again soon I will send you some more we can't have Texas chams just eatting crickets and roaches lol.![]()
Good idea!I heard from xanthoman that you should breed at least 4 generations to make sure the parasites are gone. (At least for snails.) Some of my family lives in Arkansas, and boy would a chameleon love it there. 80% humidity, lots of trees, and plenty of cicadas and katydids. Except the katydids there are three inches long and actually look like a giant leaf... lol they scare the crap outta me too. I might put a picture of one up later, they are way bigger than those guys! Lol. But seriously, I might consider getting some from you if you do decide to breed, if that's ok.
I would like to see those I bet they look like these that I breed called Florida giant katydids.
And with katydids if you just collect the eggs and put them in a different area away from the wild ones then there is no need to breed generations out they will hatch out clean of parasites... Lol I did a fecal test on my f1 grasshopper colony and they were clean.
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Good idea!I heard from xanthoman that you should breed at least 4 generations to make sure the parasites are gone. (At least for snails.) Some of my family lives in Arkansas, and boy would a chameleon love it there. 80% humidity, lots of trees, and plenty of cicadas and katydids. Except the katydids there are three inches long and actually look like a giant leaf... lol they scare the crap outta me too. I might put a picture of one up later, they are way bigger than those guys! Lol. But seriously, I might consider getting some from you if you do decide to breed, if that's ok.
Damn Lee those last 3 were really wild looking man. The mandibles on that last sucker look like they could take off a finger. lol![]()
Lol NO WAY, they looked like those first pics you posted. By the way, are those Florida katydids hard to breed?Or it could be these the red eye devil katydid.... Here are some pics of her at rest and then when I went to touch her for the first time she fired up wings and mouth open. Yeah I said screw that lol. They are the only carnivorous katydid they are like mantis and eat crickets this is my 4 species of katydid I am still working on breeding I have eggs now.. now the wait to see when they hatch.
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Lol NO WAY, they looked like those first pics you posted. By the way, are those Florida katydids hard to breed?
Feed them romain lettuce,rose leaves,or any bramble plant like blackberry and raspberry leaves mist them 1 time a day keep them in a screen or net set up with lots of sticks to climb and lay there eggs on. I breed 3 different kinds of katydids and 2 breed and lay eggs all year long and hatch a room temp in 20 to 30 days . The one you have there lays 2 to 3 times a year and the eggs need to be cooled to 50 or 60 degrees for a month to break dipause. They will hatch from 3 months to 9 months.... Also most katydids lay there eggs on sticks. I breed grass hoppers to 5 different species. 3 are seasonal and give me eggs one to 2 times a year and take 3 months to a year to hatch the other 2 a stimulated by temp and if keap warm breed and lay all year and eggs hatch fast to. They are a swarm locust/grasshopper..... They also lay there eggs in dirt instead of on sticks ....
Oh and TPM I should be getting eggs again soon I will send you some more we can't have Texas chams just eatting crickets and roaches lol.![]()
Nice I just read that, thanks![]()
Haha I should look around for katydid eggs online.
I would like to see those I bet they look like these that I breed called Florida giant katydids.
And with katydids if you just collect the eggs and put them in a different area away from the wild ones then there is no need to breed generations out they will hatch out clean of parasites... Lol I did a fecal test on my f1 grasshopper colony and they were clean.
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You won't find them in the USA....
Gr. That sucks. Maybe I can find a bug you can't find in Texas and we can trade.![]()