Hybrid mantids!!!

[Allpet Roaches]

It sounds like you started with a wild-caught female. In that case the ootheca is likely to be fertile from previous matings.

 

[happy1892]

It sounds like you started with a wild-caught female. In that case the ootheca is likely to be fertile from previous matings.

+1@Sticky, there are many hybrids that live (but often infertile) of different types of animals. Check out Mule, Liger and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail

 

[RomanBuck]

She was wild caught but I believe she was a nymph before she got to me. Do mantids eat their shed sometimes?

 

[happy1892]

Do mantids eat their shed sometimes?

No, but possibly one or a few species eat their sheds that I do not know about.