[QUOTE=yoshimi;164196]I do, I do! Is it true that 1st time pregnant dubia can take 6 weeks to give birth? The 18th was 28 days after I saw the 1st ootheca and still no babies. They're noticeably fat, or at least fatter than the newly molted females. I'm so freaking impatient. Temp and humidity are fine. Any way to speed it up, or do I just have to wait another week or so? Also I'm worried my checking may be stressing them out and may be delaying it.[/QUOTE

i wanna say 4 weeks roughly from the time they mate to berth. But they wont be able to breed for another 4 weeks so each female will have an ootheca once every two months. Now they are susceptible to stress. with that said if you stress them out they will drop there ootheca before they can give berth. I am not totally sure if this happens before they mate or after. more then likely if it has been six weeks since it mated and it still hasn't given berth then i would assume the eggs were dropped due to stress. I check mine once a day and they drop the eggs often. but i have no choice because my bins don't hold moisture well with my lamps and they eat a lot and my colonies are huge. If you have less then 5000 it would be ok to check them every 3 days to once a week. the more privacy they have the better they will do.