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Hi, I haven’t been on in awhile! So, my 18th birthday was this Thursday, and found out my school band trip is cancelled and school is closed until the 27th blah, blah—basically lots of bad news on such a special day. But what I cared most about were the mantis nymphs I had ordered which were...

Thank you!!

She did beautifully, thought I would share! She was really cooking up something special... can’t believe she had those massive wings trapped inside those buds for so long!

Just sharing she finally molted!!! She has a nice thick abdomen and beautiful wings. What a late bloomer she is. 

So her wing buds are very swollen today. That’s a good sign, yes? Should I still give her her dinner or should I wait until she molts?

Yes I believe so

Done!

Hello, I got her back in September (she had just molted in her enclosure at the store which is why I picked her!) She hasn’t molted since then. Is that a normal amount of time? She’s only my second giant Asian, because my first died of unknown causes. My cat eye has molted at least four times...

The BBF’s I ordered came packaged wrong so almost all the pupae had hatched, and the pupae that weren’t hatched never did. So I need to go to petsmart instead, but their crickets aren’t in good conditions.   Are there risks with roaches like there are  crickets? Or are they a healthy and...

What are your favorite species based on experience?

Are there any mantis species with particularly low cannibalistic tendencies that can stay together , as long as properly fed ?

Lol everyone turns out she was just hangry! Luckily the flies hatched quick and I gave her a few! She hasn’t tried to eat me since 😝

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Wow I had no idea. They’re so tiny! I did have a few climable surfaces—one led to the top, and one to hang on—but for some reason it mostly hung out on the bottom, and tried to climb the glass a lot. I must not have had enough coarse materials for it. Thanks for the insight and advice. My only...

Wow I love that description, I totally see it!

Got an L1 Devil in the mail, and it’s been a few weeks and she suddenly dropped dead. I’ve never tried to raise such a young mantis, so I blame my inexperience. I was a bit impulsive unfortunately. I fed her quite a few fruit flies, but I’m wondering if I didn’t feed her frequently enough. I...

Equal parts impressed and sad haha my big girl nibbles on me frequently but she bit me twice today hard enough to draw blood. She hasn’t eaten in a few days, is that just a sign that she’s hungry? I’m just waiting on pupae to hatch any day now. I’m hoping that’s all it is because she usually...

So I’m finally switching to a fly diet as opposed to crickets. I bought 150 pupae, and I’m just wondering how I hatch them? Will they hatch into maggots or will they be full-on flies? These might be dumb questions but I know nothing about this lol.

How beautiful! 

My collection of coincidentally all girlies 😁 I checked out a camera from my photography class, granted it’s still not the impeccable quality I see from a lot of you on here, it’s better than my phone 😋 I’m expecting an idolomantis in the mail soon, here’s to hoping it’s a female as well lol