WarrenB Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 A while ago my first female nymph succesfully matured: Today, two for two. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 Awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenB Posted February 25, 2022 Author Share Posted February 25, 2022 Thanks! "Two for two" I should've said 'two out of three', honestly. The initial failure being what gave me a thing for recording and crowing about their growth. One more to go, but she's significantly smaller. Might take her another couple of moults before she can sit at the grown-up table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenB Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 Nope! One moult. I wasn't expecting that so soon. Although as a small nymph she ended up a fairly small adult - only 55mm from pronotum to wingtips. Still, mouths, gift horses and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhjjr Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 They are all marked differently, congrats! I'm going to have to look up the mouth and gift horse phrase. Edit: interesting! I didn't know you could tell a horse's age by its teeth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenB Posted March 10, 2022 Author Share Posted March 10, 2022 I've known people - self included - who knew the phrase 'looking a gift horse in the mouth', knew what it meant, but had no idea why you'd look in a horse's mouth! I noticed the second female had a very broken up pronotum marking in the photos, though she was still slightly teneral and I think it's all filled in now. Though she was further along than #3, who had a solid marking straight off. To be honest I've tried not to disturb them too much, but I think I might have to line them all up and see just how distinguishing their marks are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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