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that must have been what happened : / I will miss him though, I will always remember his terrible 2's and the time he wouldnt go in his lil cup for like a half hour.... RIP Dammit

ya isnt that kinda like what mantis usually do? like i said mine just kind of went limp and looked rotted or somthing.... super weird cuz ive never seen them do that til now but until now i had only ever had adults....

mine have always folded their legs in when they die... so maybe thats actually weird...?

Im not sure if i did something wrong or what happened but my 6 instar praying mantis died. Whats weird is that it didnt death curl it kind of went soft looked rotted or something.... Anyone know what happened? my other two are doing fine but the same thing happened to one of my 5th instar so now...

This is my first batch of nymphs and i was just wondering if anyone had tips specific to the European variety. We have been keeping them in lil plastic dixie cups with lids (we poke lil holes in the lid). We feed them 2 to 3 fruit flies a day and we have some twine like stuff for them to hang...

@ buglover- we may have fed them too early then we have the oothecas in a container with a mesh lid and we saw it in there put it in a tiny cup thing with a lid and put some fruit flies in. Maybe it was stressed or hurt itself because it wasnt hardened yet? Maybe we will have to wait a day after...

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So I have recently started having pet mantids of my own after helping (watching) my boyfriend raise his over the last couple of years. Needless to say i'm in love (with mantids lol) My mantis layed 4 1/4 oothecas before she died and we recently had some emerge. This is where i have some...