Recent content by AikoAiko

Thanks for all the great posts. Her abdomen looks pretty swollen to me, but I will try feeding her more often.

Here are the photos of Kerrigan mating back in October. P.S. The ooth mantis_whisper gave me hatched a couple of orchid nymphs today!

I mated my female orchid mantis Kerrigan on October 15th and 17th after she had been an adult for three weeks. Each time with a different male and I saw them connected both times. Each mating lasted about six hours. The males were both young (about three weeks adult) at the time and I did not...

I'm trying to feed my orchid mantis female up so she can lay ooths, but she doesn't seem to care for houseflies. I was feeding a lot of large moths this summer and she always went for those and had an easy time catching them. The trouble is now it is getting cold in Colorado and there are no...

The Texas Unicorn nymphs have been given away. Thanks for all the responses. Aiko

Orchid mantises are my favorite species. I love the pink and white color, even though their behavior is a little boring (either stock still pretending to be a flower or freaking out when you try to move/touch them). On the other hand, my adult female Kerrigan is super cool, lets me handle her...

He let you keep a mantis in his cookie jar? Lol. Maybe you should invest in some free deli cups from the grocery store.

Five L4 Texas Unicorn nymphs free to anyone who will pay for shipping. Sturdy little fellows, good eaters, easy to keep. I have too many mantises right now and I'm about to have a bunch of new orchid babies shortly, so these guys need a home. PM me if you are interested. Aiko

I still have three orchid males, one has been adult for two months and the other two have been adult about a month. PM me when your females molt to adult and if my males are still alive, you can borrow them. Aiko

The other male that is the same age as one that died is not doing well either. He's looking awfully skinny and won't eat the bluebottle flies I offer him. I'm afraid he will die soon as well. He's kept in the same conditions as my other three orchid mantises and they're all doing fine and eating...

One of my older orchid mantis males died yesterday. I'm a little sad about it, but at least he got to mate and pass on his genes before he went. I recieved him in mid-June at L2 and he molted to adult August 16th, so he lived about two months as an adult or four months total. I noticed that...

I mated my orchid mantises a couple of days ago. My female, Kerrigan, is about three weeks adult. I made sure to feed her up the last few weeks so her abdomen is full and round. I also had to turn up the heat in my house to 75 degrees F since my room is much colder now than the heated terrarium...

Welcome to the forum from Colorado. I have a little boy as well (he's two), and am five months pregnant with another baby boy. What does your little one think of all your reptiles and bugs? Mine prefers to admire my mantises from a distance, it scares him when they move, lol.

There's a good chance your adult orchid males will still be alive when your females molt to adult. My oldest two males molted to adult mid-August and they are still alive and healthy, even after being sent to New Jersey to mate with Mantis Whisper's females. I already have a total of four males...

Hi! Welcome to the forum. If you want to keep a native species with the intention to release them, it is too late in the season for that around here. You'd want to release them after it stops snowing in the spring. Mantisplace has chinese and european mantises. You could also order an ooth from...