MantisGirl13

Wow! I just realized I've been on this forum for a year and four days now! It seems more like five years!

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I'm bored... Sitting and watching a mounted but not mating pair of spinys is really boring. Especially when the male isn't even attempting a connection!

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Bummer. I had a male majuscula in the mail ready for my female, and right before she gets here she gets weak and is dying. She won't move her mandible so I can't feed her anything. 

The male is here now, but the female is on her way out.

There goes my only chance to breed!

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Sick AGAIN!! I think I've been sick more times this winter than any other winter. Just a cold this time, but I've had a headache all day and am really tired. 

I fed most of the mantids today, and I think my G. African female will molt soon because she would not accept food no matter how hard I tried!

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Well, I thought my orchid gal was subadult because she was L7 and Graceface said that female orchids are adult at L8, but it turns out she molted again (to sub this time) and she is HUGE! Pictures to come.I

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What a day! It's barely started! My sister was sick yesterday, and my mom got sick too. I woke up to my brother throwing up, my mom too sick to get out of bed for more than 5 mins, and my dad sick and sleeping. This means that only me and my youngest sister are healthy right now. I have to get her on the bus and somehow avoid getting sick for the next few days. Ugh!

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Wow! I haven't been on the Forum a year yet, and I just reached the Ghost Mantis rank!! 3000 posts! I think I'm on here too much...

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Can't wait till tomorrow! I am going to the Philly Insectarium with a friend of mine. They have mantids!!

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My last day of being 13 years old! I hope I get mantids and a good camera for my birthday tomorrow!! 

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Busy day here today! Yesterday I spent a few hours cleaning cages and moving mantids and ooths to bigger cages for molting, hatching, etc. I'm so glad I did all that yesterday, because I had one of the ooths (G. amoena) hatch out today (2 nymphs so far). 

One of the ghosts molted to subadult! She is so pretty! (Pictures coming)

I also fed my green anoles and finally got the picky eater to eat a mealworm.