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I was wondering what you all suggest for food and water for red runner roaches (Blatta lateralis)? I want to try and start a colony and the only thing I have left to figure out is what to feed and what to do for water. (and a place to get red runners for not to expensive).

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What is the best way for me to ship mantises and ooths safely to people? If I walk into the post office with them or if I told them what I was shipping would they care? Anything I need to know I guess.

My green female had a sort of green under-color under her brown from a few molts before adulthood but when she molted to adult she changed drastically and became rather green. Although she still has a little brown in her wings. 

My location is the United States, Moore county, North Carolina (Also Raleigh North Carolina depending). Selling Ghost Mantis nymphs (right now they are at L1 I can ship them at whatever age is needed) I am also selling ooths. I have more of both nymphs and ooths than I can handle so I need to...

Finally got one to mate and she laid an ooth a few days later. So heres to hoping it all works out well. Ghost ooths do not need a dipause right?

Well I tried everything but he still is not interested in her at all. I can not figure out what is wrong.

About how long will the female take to lay her first ooth if she is unfertilized

They are about three weeks into adult for all of them and they have been separated since they were around L3. Ill try warming them too and moving to a whole new room for a few days. It would make sense to me if the problem was just that they have to near each other for to long and he got used to...

I am having trouble getting my male to be interested in my female any advice as to how I can better mate Ghost mantises. 

Here are some pictures and as a bonus here is the green mantis that molted perfectly.

Ill try to get a picture but it can never seem to get them to show up on the forum.

three of my four female ghost mantises have molted to adulthood but two of them have "mismolted" in the same way. A smallish bit of their hind wings did not fold underneath their fore wings properly and sticks out under the side. I was wondering if this was common or if it might be fixed if she...

You did everything you could. 

It could also have been that the damaged tissue was damaged in such a way that it killed a large amount of cells regardless of infection or no infection and it would make sense to me that the dead or dying part would turn purpleish like gangrene I guess. When cells die unexpectedly they release...

I dont think so unless someone made something specifically for insects. I would suspect most things that you can give to humans to kill bacteria would also kill most insects.

It sounds like her damaged parts might had gotten infected (a common sign of infection in insects is the area turning darker to a black or purpleish color similar to how in humans redness is a sign of infection around a cut) . I am sorry. As far as I know there is nothing else that could be done...

Those temp/humd gauges are exactly what I need. The temperature  for ghost Mantises is a lot lower than I expected since they are from pretty near the equator but I looked it up and 72 is around the average high temperature for Madagascar.