sexing emperor

My male stung my tweezers.

You have spackle on them too?

LOL

spackle?hahahaha

my female is much more aggressive than my male.just yelling at my dog the other day barking incessantly made her come out to investigate.she gave me a long dirty look and went back to her burrow.she investigates and attacks me whenever i mess with anything.
the male just chills and watches.

but i do find it harder to pick up the male only because hes that much quicker than the female,he does the fastest 180s ive ever seen anything do.but once i have either in my hands and they know im not going to harm them,they walk around and look at me seemingly relaxed,alert and interested in everything and anyone in the room.

After seeing Gs's video I do believe these big guys got attitude too. I always thought of them as clumsy, heavy and slow.. but this is not the case apparently.

Gs's video? jesus??? whaaaa?
you thought emps were clumsy,heavy,slow????

*~BEX~* wrote:

if you have a male and a female the difference will prly be quite clear to you however this is not always the case lol such is life heres some pics i have used in the past....

This picture is wrong. The first one is male and the last is female ;P

Indeed.

Scorpeace wrote:

*~BEX~* wrote:

if you have a male and a female the difference will prly be quite clear to you however this is not always the case lol such is life heres some pics i have used in the past....

This picture is wrong. The first one is male and the last is female ;P

disagree.

I thought females had a heart shaped genital opperculum? The pectines in the second shot definitely look male though.

thats what i picked up from everywhere.male pectines are larger than the females and females have the heart shaped opperculum.

im with kweegwin. everywhere i looked describes the same thing.
my female which is more plump and way more aggressive has the smaller curved pectines.females are usually more aggressive as well,no?

Kweegwin wrote:

Scorpeace wrote:

*~BEX~* wrote:

if you have a male and a female the difference will prly be quite clear to you however this is not always the case lol such is life heres some pics i have used in the past....

This picture is wrong. The first one is male and the last is female ;P

disagree.

Look on the first picture. The space between the genital operculum and the basil piece. On females they are touching. Also, the genital operculum is very oval. The next picture they are touching and the operculum looks less oval then they should be on a male.

But i agree that looking at the pectines sure looks like female-male, but looking at what i described over here, they are opposite. Maybe they are different instars or something.

EDIT: Actually, the operculum on the first picture does look a littl more heartshaped than the one on the second picture
Why is the operculum touching the basil piece on the second picture???

2nd EDIT: I think there are two different species on that picture.. At LEAST they HAVE to be different instars.. I'm torn.

Do anyone have any inputs here?

i see what your saying something is going on with that pic or one of us got misinformation.im torn now too.

they are hermaphrodites!!!!!
im gonna go research some more and ill be back.

alright im baaack.i made my rounds and i have come to the conclusion like Scorpeace said they have to be different instars or species altogether.

I wonder who made that crappy picture..

Probably Steven Seagal or Gilbert Godfried.how can they see anything squinting so much.