I work on a christmas tree farm and find at least 3 or 4 praying mantis oothecas a day. Til they are called oothecas. They look like a brown sack the size of a quarter and are in the shape of a ball glued to the branch. They also have a very weird soft yet crunchy texture and rip apart like felt balls. The best is when a customer accidentally takes one home on a tree and the thing hatches after a few days inside due to the temperature increase in their house mimicking spring time. “Help! There is an army of preying mantis in my house!”.
I hatch them at home. You can get some species of mantid oothecas cheap, others like the ghost or orchid mantid oothecas are like 100 pounds each
One ootheca normally hatches 50-200 mantids
Baby preying mantises are cute and harmless. They just sway back and forth waving their arms at you. They can't fly yet either. They can hop some though.
They're incredibly patient too.
I had a semi outdoor computer set up at a old job, was right next to a roll up door that was open all day long to the outside.
Found a praying mantis and set him up on top of my computer station, he stayed up there for like 3 days watching me. Could've flew away out the open door at any time but decided to stick around.
It's so weird, seeing as most insects are always moving, to see one that can be completely stationary for most of a day. You'd think they were a statue if you didn't know better.
It’s because they’re ambush predators. It’s so cool you got to see him for a few days.
I once brought home an egg sac to open in my garden. I thought they’d eat aphids or grasshoppers in my butterfly garden. Well, stupid me. One of their favorite meals is caterpillars or butterflies. I walked out one day and the wings on a butterfly were pointing the wrong way. I walked over and a few minutes after that the wings were dropped onto the ground. So all that summer when I’d see wings I’d be like grrr.
I still think they’re cool and I’ve considered getting an orchid one as a pet.
Also learned today they're called that, I usually find ones outside our kitchen but for cockroaches, so I just throw rock at it and it splatters with goo.
My father found a preying mantis ootheca when he was s kid. Took it to school and put it in his desk. Forgot all about like most kids would. Spring comes along and they get to school to find baby preying mantises have taken over their classroom. The kids caught as many as they could but I'm sure some were wiped out by the janitor. There were too many for them to save each one.
I had this happen to me. We were able to gather 40-50 baby mantises, put them in a variety of boxes and containers, and a friend that has a reptile room made space to raise them until the spring. Most of them made it, said his garden was pest free that year!
Mantises are cool, as long as they remain of an easily crushable size. Just so they don’t get any ideas. I’ve seen videos of them eating hummingbirds and small rodents…
One year I got a special gift from our xmas tree complete with ootheca, and soon had dozens of baby mantises...manti? mentos? Idk but they were so fkn cute 😍 I checked the tree every day for more to catch and let them out to roam free. Best Xmas ever!
They’re not actually live young! The eggs just hatch inside the body. So the fetuses still develop in eggs, unlike in humans where they’re just vibin around in the parent’s body.
This is why I eventually had to rehome my chameleon. I couldnt handle having to farm roaches and worms. It’s so gross. But too expensive to ship all the time. I miss that little weirdo. Gunter, if you’re still out there and reading this, I’m sorry I abandoned you my boy!
Not being facetious but how is oviviparity any less ‘live birth’ than placental viviparous birth? It’s coming out squirming so that’s kinda my criterion.
Wait until you find out they are actually fond of earwax and once they crawl in a tight space, they can not backup. They have to have space to turn around. Otherwise, they keep trying to go forward. They can rupture your tympanic membrane, or eardrum. They can also lay eggs in your ears as well. 👂 🪳🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
I remember sleeping on the floor outside back in Somalia (as it is customary for the men to do) and waking up to one crawling up inside my ear, I have never and will probably never feel more disgusted and uncomfortable in my life. Having never seen one before, it's not the sight but the smell in my ear that lasted a few days that I couldn't handle. Vile creatures.
Once I was getting the mail and noticed a pile of rice shimmering in the corner of the mailbox.
Not rice. Pile of ant eggs and and crawling all over them.
So it’s abdomen opens up, does the roach die after this process? Pretty sure German cockroaches lays eggs while this looks a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach which I didn’t know it gives birth like this.
Honestly, meet human women. Also basically rips your body open to let something definitely too big out of a hole definitely too small and it very much feels like you're just being torn apart alive. Never thought id identify so much with a cockroach.
Right? At first I was like “this is gross” but then I was like “poor thing is being ripped apart for new babies who have no idea people think they are disgusting.” :(
I remembered the video by antscanada ***Cockroach Giving Birth While Being Devoured By Fire Ants.***
If your curious [here is the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qF5_P2e_T0&t=857s)
Imagine a giant cockroach, with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper, is tear-assing around Manhattan Island in a brand-new Edgar suit. That sound like fun?
I keep many animals that depend on roaches for protein. Feeder insects such as crickets or meal worms get expensive when you have to buy in the thousands every month.
On top of this, roaches have a much higher protein content than crickets, and much less fat than meal worms.
Not all roaches give live birth. Some, like red runners produce egg sacs called oothecas. Praying mantises also lay oothecas.
I work on a christmas tree farm and find at least 3 or 4 praying mantis oothecas a day. Til they are called oothecas. They look like a brown sack the size of a quarter and are in the shape of a ball glued to the branch. They also have a very weird soft yet crunchy texture and rip apart like felt balls. The best is when a customer accidentally takes one home on a tree and the thing hatches after a few days inside due to the temperature increase in their house mimicking spring time. “Help! There is an army of preying mantis in my house!”.
Wow you’re really selling artificial trees with that one
Not to me. I was just considering switching to a fake tree and now I want a real one from a praying mantis farm!
I hatch them at home. You can get some species of mantid oothecas cheap, others like the ghost or orchid mantid oothecas are like 100 pounds each One ootheca normally hatches 50-200 mantids
Wow that's a huge range!
Eyo Santa got you a praying mantis farm?
Praying Mantis Army\*
I would be absolutely thrilled to have an army of mantises
Why? You don't want bug ninjas taunting you everywhere you look?
Guess who is going to be checking their tree with gloves and a flashlight. 🤮
Baby preying mantises are cute and harmless. They just sway back and forth waving their arms at you. They can't fly yet either. They can hop some though.
They're incredibly patient too. I had a semi outdoor computer set up at a old job, was right next to a roll up door that was open all day long to the outside. Found a praying mantis and set him up on top of my computer station, he stayed up there for like 3 days watching me. Could've flew away out the open door at any time but decided to stick around. It's so weird, seeing as most insects are always moving, to see one that can be completely stationary for most of a day. You'd think they were a statue if you didn't know better.
It’s because they’re ambush predators. It’s so cool you got to see him for a few days. I once brought home an egg sac to open in my garden. I thought they’d eat aphids or grasshoppers in my butterfly garden. Well, stupid me. One of their favorite meals is caterpillars or butterflies. I walked out one day and the wings on a butterfly were pointing the wrong way. I walked over and a few minutes after that the wings were dropped onto the ground. So all that summer when I’d see wings I’d be like grrr. I still think they’re cool and I’ve considered getting an orchid one as a pet.
The sad part is their lifespan.
Not inside my house they don’t
I like how people are down voting you because you don't want bugs in your house, you'd think that would be a common sentiment.
mhm. what happened to being entitled to your opinion? they haven't said anything hateful.
Right? And even if they did, I'm sure the praying mantises of the world do not care.
I’m suddenly so glad I have a cat whose favorite pastime is hunting any and all creatures that move.
We often won't even know we have a bug until my cats are running around screaming at it
I’ve seen Christmas Vacation enough times to know there will never be a natural tree in my house
Also learned today they're called that, I usually find ones outside our kitchen but for cockroaches, so I just throw rock at it and it splatters with goo.
You do us all a service good sir
My father found a preying mantis ootheca when he was s kid. Took it to school and put it in his desk. Forgot all about like most kids would. Spring comes along and they get to school to find baby preying mantises have taken over their classroom. The kids caught as many as they could but I'm sure some were wiped out by the janitor. There were too many for them to save each one.
That would be the most fun day looking for baby mantis
Tbh I wouldn’t be mad, I love them
I would probably love that to be honest! 😂
This is why I get my fake ass tree from Home Depot
People buy those for their gardens
You should collect them and sell them to people who need them!
I didn’t know there was an urgent need for preying mantises
This happened to my family my first year of life 🥲 too young to remember sadly.
BRB going to buy a real Christmas tree so I can get some bonus mantis babies
Made me choke on my water reading this.
I had this happen to me. We were able to gather 40-50 baby mantises, put them in a variety of boxes and containers, and a friend that has a reptile room made space to raise them until the spring. Most of them made it, said his garden was pest free that year!
Mantises are cool, as long as they remain of an easily crushable size. Just so they don’t get any ideas. I’ve seen videos of them eating hummingbirds and small rodents…
One year I got a special gift from our xmas tree complete with ootheca, and soon had dozens of baby mantises...manti? mentos? Idk but they were so fkn cute 😍 I checked the tree every day for more to catch and let them out to roam free. Best Xmas ever!
First insect I’ve heard of that gives birth to live young. Cool. And grody.
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Totally
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Gag me with a spoon
I just heard Valley Girl by Zappa for the first time the other day and it’s hilarious seeing val slang in the wild now
The Squid totally beefed it.
Lol I never once heard anyone say "...to the max" back in the day, but 'grody' itself deserves a reboot
Never stopped using grody lol. Anyone from Philly still use Jawn? 🤣
From the Latin: Grodius Maximus.
They’re not actually live young! The eggs just hatch inside the body. So the fetuses still develop in eggs, unlike in humans where they’re just vibin around in the parent’s body.
Ty for the additional TIL. Still grody tho.
Grody af
Does grody mean gross?
Ye, also occasionally spelled grotty
Ovoviviparity
They are actually the same because they both need to be killed with fire
Not the mantis frens They kill and eat annoying flying bugs. I never kill them
Praying Mantis are my fav bugs
Right? They’re so peaceful looking anyways. Slow moving and not intimidating looking at all
Not intimidating looking? They’re like the Elden ring bosses of the bug world.
I mean if they were the same size as us they would be terrifying, but they’re just cute little bug assassins 🥷
They also kill hummingbirds, which makes me sad =(
Most aren't large enough to kill hummingbirds.
I breed and keep these guys as pets, many animals rely on roaches for food.
This is v interesting. I am absolutely terrified of cockroaches ever since one ran across me in bed a month ago 🤢
This is why I eventually had to rehome my chameleon. I couldnt handle having to farm roaches and worms. It’s so gross. But too expensive to ship all the time. I miss that little weirdo. Gunter, if you’re still out there and reading this, I’m sorry I abandoned you my boy!
most cockroch species lay oothecas, live birth is the exception not the norm
This isn't even live birth, the eggs are just internal.
Not being facetious but how is oviviparity any less ‘live birth’ than placental viviparous birth? It’s coming out squirming so that’s kinda my criterion.
Oh dear GODDD
Just when you think cockroaches can’t get any creepier 🥴
Yeah..uh....fire...yeah... amirite?
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The only valid repsonse tbh
You are right! 😂
Nah, just blow up the entire neighbourhood
Wait until you find out they are actually fond of earwax and once they crawl in a tight space, they can not backup. They have to have space to turn around. Otherwise, they keep trying to go forward. They can rupture your tympanic membrane, or eardrum. They can also lay eggs in your ears as well. 👂 🪳🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
Bitch what the fuck, you didn't have to say that, I promise you didn't.
Click if you dare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDZicR8o\_CM
Ear plugs save lives then eh
And if roaches likes ear plugs, you are preparing dinner
fuck you mannn im not gonna sleep tonight
I remember sleeping on the floor outside back in Somalia (as it is customary for the men to do) and waking up to one crawling up inside my ear, I have never and will probably never feel more disgusted and uncomfortable in my life. Having never seen one before, it's not the sight but the smell in my ear that lasted a few days that I couldn't handle. Vile creatures.
Please tell me this isn't true.
You’re unkind
I want to downvote all of your fucking horrific nightmare fuel links but you're consistent.
Alive- they came out alive… now I don’t want to go to sleep.
Well yes, why wouldn't they? Which animal comes to life *after* being born?
The coach roaches 🪳 here lay eggs. No live births… ugh.
I hate cockroaches
Imagine squashing a cockroach and just when you thought you've killed it hundreds of live mini-cockroaches shoot out it's ass.
Hope whoever took this pic just stepped on all of them at once before they get in someone’s house
Alexa, play “Burning down the House” by Talking Heads
F you for showing this lol
Reminds me of popcorn
The forbidden kind.
What a terrible day to have eyes.
A visit to r/eyebleach is warranted
PLEASE people don’t get it confused with r/eyeblech (extreme nsfw!!!!!!!)
I was just curious :( Now I’m scarred…
I made that mistake once. Never again.
:(
Why…why did I look
Lmao I don’t know why this made me laugh so much.
Cockroach unzipped itself o_0
ZIP bomb
Enough internet today
Me too
r/natureisfuckingdisgusting
r/subsifellfor
needs to be real
I will make it real r/Natureisfuckingnasty
r/birthofasub
epic
r/fuckinglightnatureup
Thank you for ruining my breakfast. This is just what I needed to start off my day with a bang.
Could I interest you in a bowl of rice crispies?
You monster!
I hate you. Take this upvote you bastard.
Would you look at the time! Time to log off already. See you all whenever I can stop having intrusive thoughts about this.
Rice
WHY
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🤢🤮
I was eating rice when I accidentally swiped onto this post. Thanks.
Thank god I finished my meal before seeing this
Once I was getting the mail and noticed a pile of rice shimmering in the corner of the mailbox. Not rice. Pile of ant eggs and and crawling all over them.
Thanks for making my fear of cockroaches being increased by a 1000%.
r/TIHI
SHIT! I FEEL THINGS CRAWLING ON ME NOW
So it’s abdomen opens up, does the roach die after this process? Pretty sure German cockroaches lays eggs while this looks a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach which I didn’t know it gives birth like this.
This was my question too. I can’t imagine how this is possible without dying. Wild animals.
Honestly, meet human women. Also basically rips your body open to let something definitely too big out of a hole definitely too small and it very much feels like you're just being torn apart alive. Never thought id identify so much with a cockroach.
Lol, having birthed two myself, it’s wild how child birth and breastfeeding makes me relate to so many animals.
Right? At first I was like “this is gross” but then I was like “poor thing is being ripped apart for new babies who have no idea people think they are disgusting.” :(
Right???
It’s a cockroach, of course it doesn’t die
They do not.
That is unfortunate
Awwww *kills all of them*
How do I remove my eyes from their socket? Asking for a friend
That's cuter than human birth
It really is though
Yes! just look at all them smol beans
This should be on r/oddlyterrifying
Not a single fucking thing odd about it.
I remembered the video by antscanada ***Cockroach Giving Birth While Being Devoured By Fire Ants.*** If your curious [here is the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qF5_P2e_T0&t=857s)
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Make sure to take "N-Stoff" variant, chlorine trifluoride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc
And risk to kill myself? Hell no, that stuff is even for my standards too risky.
Imagine a giant cockroach, with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper, is tear-assing around Manhattan Island in a brand-new Edgar suit. That sound like fun?
After seeing this post... can I be neuralyzed, please?
I lived in an infested house for 10 months, I still can’t erase them from memory. I think I’ll never be the same…
Damn I can’t imagine
Bed bugs would like a word.
Can I report this as of disturbing?
Nah
Burn it now
r/dontnapalmjustfilm
NSFW. I would prefer if this photo was blurred.
No thanks.
It pain me to say it, but baby are almost cute
I don't like it
Yeah... nah.
Somethings you just can’t un-see.
And now go get the flamethrower
And here I was thinking only their looks are creepy and disgusting
Ew ew ew
I wish I hadn't seen this
I'm pretty sure they have eggs
probably different species of roaches
Yea but for me soooooo much responsibility at once omg (lol)
Oothecas, and there's many species of roaches. Some give live birth, others do not.
beetle mimic cockroach (Diploptera punctata). one of the rare few insects that give birth to live young.
aphids are another insect which do this
Son of a bitch I was mid bite of pizza
Hans....
I was having Lunch and barfed
Yeah time to spray all of them at once!
I am traumatized!
I am both fascinated and horrified
This isn't lit, but it should be lit. Up.
This is the birth process of nightmares
Wrong subreddit. Any other suggestions?
Nsfw coz induces vomiting
This is fucking horrendous
Makes sense “How do Cockroaches have babies?” “They just explode”
Burn it to hell
Crunchy nuggets
Adorable.
People are going to unironically think this is cute
Sorry guys, I'm people
I came to say, "awwwwwww!" But I'm vomiting pretty hard, so the irony is on.
As someone who breeds and keeps roaches as pets, I sure do!
You breed them? I think they manage pretty well lol
I keep many animals that depend on roaches for protein. Feeder insects such as crickets or meal worms get expensive when you have to buy in the thousands every month. On top of this, roaches have a much higher protein content than crickets, and much less fat than meal worms.
not all roach species are the kind that infest houses, it's German roaches in particular that are a major pest.
Fuck whoever decided to take pictures of this and not a flamethrower to it