Katydid eggs hatched!

[BenjiTheCham]

Where can the katydids be found?? I’d love to hatch some eggs of my own. What do their eggs look like?

 

[jamest0o0]

Where can the katydids be found?? I’d love to hatch some eggs of my own. What do their eggs look like?

They're usually high up in the trees, but occasionally at night you can get lucky and find them near lights closer to the ground. They look like green leaves lol. You'd probably have to breed them to get eggs, the species I have and many others chew holes into branches and lay their eggs into the branch. Looks like little seeds sticking out.

 

[BenjiTheCham]

They're usually high up in the trees, but occasionally at night you can get lucky and find them near lights closer to the ground. They look like green leaves lol. You'd probably have to breed them to get eggs, the species I have and many others chew holes into branches and lay their eggs into the branch. Looks like little seeds sticking out.

Oh okay

 

[jamest0o0]

Update, seeing more babies each day. A spider killed one of my nymphs, I still feel bad, but i had to murder the spider. Normally I hate killing spiders, but it kept coming back to the cage

 

[BenjiTheCham]

Update, seeing more babies each day. A spider killed one of my nymphs, I still feel bad, but i had to murder the spider. Normally I hate killing spiders, but it kept coming back to the cage

It’s a spider buffet

 

[jamest0o0]

It’s a spider buffet

Yeah pretty much. They're tiny!

 

[SauceGandhi]

Update, seeing more babies each day. A spider killed one of my nymphs, I still feel bad, but i had to murder the spider. Normally I hate killing spiders, but it kept coming back to the cage

NP gotta do the same thing here. They always come back.

 

[jamest0o0]

NP gotta do the same thing here. They always come back.

Yeah I kept destroying the web and shooing it away. It'd be back like an hour later, web and all.

 

[SauceGandhi]

Yeah I kept destroying the web and shooing it away. It'd be back like an hour later, web and all.

Yikes, yeah some guy told me he went on vacation for a few days and by the time he was back, spiders had killed all of his newborns lol.

 

[Persnickety Parson's]

I found some old pictures from when I used to breed them. Dissosteira carolina should be about the same, just slower and slightly larger. Let me know how it goes if you try them out. I've always been wanting to do more species, but haven't had the time to go out and find some of the farther ones.

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You need to make a grasshopper and locusts care thread/step by step guide, so people can replicate your success.

 

[SauceGandhi]

Was there an update on this project, especially regarding cannibalism?

 

[jamest0o0]

Lost a few to spiders, haven't noticed any cannibalism. The rest are growing a lot, they like a lot of food and arent too picky. Lots of water too

 

[Tony_S]

When I was cooking burgers out on my deck last week I saw I few climbing on the side of my house. Of course when I went back out later looking for them, they were gone.

 

[jamest0o0]

When I was cooking burgers out on my deck last week I saw I few climbing on the side of my house. Of course when I went back out later looking for them, they were gone.

Chams love them!