Recent content by lissarae

My favorite mantis, Penelope, used to sit on my shoulder like a parrot and nibble on my hair. One day she decided she wanted to check out my daughter's hair instead, so she jumped .....and landed directly on her face! Thankfully my daughter (6 at the time) just giggled like crazy and didn't...

Hahaha yes I can already tell that this has become an addicting hobby 😀 I appreciate the references - I actually did but feeders from Bugs in Cyberspace. I had binge watched a ton of his YouTube videos and I was very impressed with his knowledge and obvious care. And I wound up buying a few...

Thank you 😊

Hi, from South Jersey :) My family adopted two Chinese mantid nymphs in December (the survivors of the ooth that hatched in our neighbors Christmas tree) and one of them recently passed after a bad (final) mismolt. My daughter, who's six, may love mantids even more than I do, and we've both...