Some of my favorite work from the commissions I've received are "Truncation of the Zodiac" for Sixty Watt Shaman, "Seed of Decades," Spit Fire Records, Doomed to Inherit, for Divine Empire's "Doomed to Inherit", Mercury Records, all 4 of the cover works for Argus, Cruz del Sur Records (Italy) and my two most recent covers, "Mortos" for Pale Divine, "Self-Titled," Shadow Kingdom Records, and "Chamber of Sacred
Ootheca" for Tomb Mold, 20 Buck Spin Records.
The difficulty of securing enough calories to fabricate an
ootheca may help explain why females of some mantid species famously engage in sexual cannibalism " consuming their mates after, or even during, copulation.
"When more than three virgin females immediately after the imaginal molt were kept together in a small sealed container, they tended to produce egg cases via parthenogenesis earlier than did isolated females, resulting in apparent synchronization of
ootheca production, even among females housed in different containers," the results of the study (http://When more than three virgin females immediately after the imaginal molt were kept together in a small sealed container, they tended to produce egg cases (oothecae) via parthenogenesis earlier than did isolated females, resulting in apparent synchronization of
ootheca production, even among females housed in different containers.) read.
For each egg case, we recorded the other information as before: species and height of vegetation on which each
ootheca was deposited plus precise ([+ or -]5[degrees]) orientation with a surveyor's compass.
The average time of fungal extrusion (TFE), total number of hatched nymphs per treatment (NN) and the average number of hatched nymphs per
ootheca (NNO) were also evaluated.
Adult lifespan and the number of
ootheca per female were higher on M.
These 3 genera are placed in the Pseudophyllodromiinae owing to the genital hook on the right side and
ootheca not rotated prior to deposition.
Nymphs and adults of this grasshopper feed on the leaves of these macrophytes, and eggs are laid in an
ootheca within the leaf petiole (Zolessi, 1956).
This species is an endophagous egg parasite that has only been reported to parasitize the
ootheca of the cockroaches Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758), Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775), and Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea, Blattidae) [19, 20].
When a mother cockroach lays eggs, up to 40 cockroaches are contained inside an
ootheca, a capsule-like membrane.
Gravid females are immediately distinguishable by the developing
ootheca contained in an expanded brood sac (Figure 5).