Throwback pics

So as I said I will post old pictures of our mantis Mom and Dad from time to time and our ootheca or ooth (egg mass) laying from last year. Here are a bunch of pictures of Trixie, she is the mom and as you can see in one of the pictures she got super fat when she was full of eggs. I mated her with 2 males. Ned and Ed.

Trixie mated with Ed 9/21/13 and ate him right after! (Actually a first for any of my females) and Ed mated with her 9/27/13 and she also ate him, actually as gross as it sounds she ate his upper half at the start of the mating and kept going! Ewwwww.

She laid ooths on 9/26/13, 10/8/13, 12/27/13, 11/11/13, 11/25/13 and 12/9/13.  Ooths 1-3 hatched after being wintered outside on 5/25/2014, I placed the other 3 ooths in my crepe myrtles out front, one (number 6) was damaged over the winter and never hatched. I believe 4 and 5 probably hatched but can not confirm as they are so deep in my tree I can no longer find them thanks to all the flowers and leaves.