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Is it possible that like....ermmm (thinking from personal experience lol) rabbits or guinea pigs etc, mantises could have some predispositions to litter training by prefering to go to the toilet in the same place lol? My gastrica has left these poops all in one place, its certainly NOT her...

Hello my dear crew of experts ☺ Id like to ask your advice and experience.. After my small handful of mantises I finally got to the stage where Id like to get some ghosts ❤ Yes I have read up on them here and there and there are 2 areas on which id love to get more specific info: 1) What's...

What instar would you say one could make an educated guess at sexing a Rhombodera  nymph? According to this care sheet it can be done after 2nd molt. So would that be L3 then? Would you agree with such a suggestion...

Hiya, just a learning question please, as its surprisingly hard to find this answer by googling.... So my 1st mantis, gastrica, is apparently a subadult now as someone saw in the pic. Is that correct? Are those wing buds? Is subadult the very last stage before adult or is there a few stages...

Hello lovely people,  as some of you know, I am new to mantids and getting hooked 😀 So I have my gastrica L? and a spiny flower L5.  I'm learning by the minute and fascinated by these creatures. Although I cant go crazy on numbers due to my circumstances, I think I could still manage 1 or even...

Hi guys, can you help? I came home from work and found my gastrica in the middle of a molt. In fact, most of her is out successfully but she seems stuck just by the very tip of her abdomen in the old molt. I dont know how long shes been like this....  As you can see from the droplets on the...

Hi, so I am very much a newbie, only recently introduced myself here with my new gastrica. Shes doing very well, had 1 molt since with me.  I mustve caught the bug because Im quite obscessed with her and I just purchased my 2nd mantis, this time a spiny flower. 4th instar. Oh what a little...

Hiya, I got my 1st mantis about 2 weeks ago.  My last pets were 2 bunnies, they passed aways last summer. Before that Ive been through a snake keeping phase and I had, amongst others, 2 rare morph anacondas.  Recently my lifestyle changed and I had to downsize and so Ive been researching...