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You can't account for them being stupid. My Heirodula venosa finally had her adult moult today. Decided to do it 2 inches from the bottom of the cage 😑. Despite having a large mesh cage, with plenty of sticks etc. Always moulted from the top before. When I got home from work found her on the...

I wanted to ask if anyone knows of anywhere that you can order housefly pupae in the uk? I only need a few to bridge a gap before my soldier flies start to hatch. I have a couple of l3 mantids that are too big to look at hydei but are scared of tiny crickets.

I don't just keep mantids, I've been keeping various "exotics" for over 30 years. Reptiles and amphibians mostly. I took a couple of pics of a few of my current collection. First my adult male everglades ratsnake and one his young from this year, 14 days old One of a young pair of ladder...

I grabbed a couple of quick pics today, both these species are brilliant in my opinion. First my lone female creobroter gemmatus. Pseudoxyops perpulchra, I have a few of these and they have loads of character.  They chase prey all over the cage and are willing to tackle prey that looks too...

In the uk. I have an adult male ephestiasula boxer that I'd like to pair up. Originated from bugzuk, if anyone has a spare adult or subadult female I'd be interested in buying her.

Well I ordered some new mantids recently and I received 3 of these however I had actually ordered 3 of these It was a simple mistake at their end and very generously they said I could keep the eremiaphila anyway and they sent out the epaphrodita musarum aswell. They came from bugzuk and I...

Well first step anyway, I was nervous for my male but I paired up my Miomantis paykulli yesterday. Needn't have done, he did everything right mated her 3 times and then sat in the top corner of the cage waiting patiently to go home.  So fingers crossed will get some ooths shortly.  She ate 4...

Well one of my favourite mantids molted to adult this week, a male ephestiasula boxer mantid.  He looks great and is healthy/feeding well so thats the happy.  The sad is my other boxer is not there yet (not sure of the sex anyway) and of course it means the adults' days are numbered. He is a...

I had two packages arrive today First was two little panther mantis (Tarachodula pantherina). They'd been well packed with a couple of snacks in with them too, which one of them grabbed whilst I got my phone camera out. This is one of two boxer mantis (Ephestiaula sp), Finally a budwing...

Just a quick question for those in the uk, I have a few new nymphs arriving later this week and I wanted to ask about recommendations for best places to get drosophila cultures. I believe I will need one or two for one of my new species, until they are a bit bigger.

It was feeding today and I managed to take a couple of quick pictures of some of my mantids.  Not the best quality, they were just snaps on my phone under poor lighting, so they have ended up a little washed out, will have to take some better ones when i have more time. Anyway, first is my...

Even when provided with twigs etc to hang from sometimes a mantid will choose to moult close to the floor, hence the slightly bent wings on my newly adult female miomantis. Sphrodo's are GREEDY to the point where there is rarely even a scrap of food insect left anywhere after feeding. ...

As I've mentioned in my introduction thread I have my first few mantis' arriving this week. They are all L4 -L5, the rhombodera and heirodula I'm sure will be eating bluebottles and bigger. But I wanted to check what the miomantis should be having, I was thinking maybe small crickets or could...

Hi I'm Dan, I've looked after many different pets since I was little but mantids are a bit new to me. The only I've personally had was several years ago, a rehomed adult male chinese mantis so he didn't have that long left (didn't really know how old he was).  Anyway I've always wanted to try...