it was Mannie she had motled! I thought her exoskeleton was her...
This is what I saw...

this is what Mannie looked like before her molt


After she molted she grew about an inch or more...she is really getting big. When my girls found out she was female the said they want to mate her...we would have to find a male for that...I don't know if I could handle watching her eat her mate....I just don't know....lol
LOL, no worries Sis Bridget, she's dead and gone. They only live till the the end of Oct or early Nov, the cold kills them.
ReplyDeleteWe just saved a grasshopper from death today. It's a female and she would have froze to death along with the 90% of all the other bugs...but she was fortunate that my girls like to keep bugs...now she'll live in a plastic contain all winter sheltered fromt he cold, they eat oat meal and drink water. The girls will let her go come spring. We did this last year as an experiment to see how long grasshoppers would like, well they'll live as long as it warm and they have food and water, lol. I know Ewww eww eww!!, but you wait till yours get a little older the things you'll do because your a homeschooler...lol...you just wait!