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    when you go on vacation, what do you do with your mantis?

    beside having someone else look after your mantis. what else do you do to keep your mantis alive when you are away for vacation? I am planning on an oversea vacation. It will take about 2 to 2.5 weeks. I wonder if I can still keep my mantis alive while I am away. Maybe I can leave enough blue...
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    can't believe my blue mantis still alive

    I have been searching for blue mantis for a while. nobody sell it at UK at the moment. then I found someone sell it from poland. It was an impulsive purchase. I didn't check how bad that shop is. It only has 87% positive feedback ( the lowest I have seen on ebay). The seller lie about using...
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    Maybe mantis can actually only eat fruit flies on their whole life?

    After my mantis last moult. She didn't have much appetite for a few days. She still eat some fruit flies but only eat 1 to 2 flies each day. So, I bought some mini mealworm at for her. She is not interest in. I ordered some blue bottle fly pupae. It took a few days to arrive and after it arrive...
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    a weird question, have you ever eat your mantis food?

    I bought some mealworm for my mantis. She's not interest in. but looking at those fat mealworm. I want to eat them. I know people eat mealworm as well. but most of the edible mealworm that sells at reputable shop only sell dried mealworm which don't have yummy juice anymore. I had think about to...
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    what is the brown worms in fruit fly cup? can ffs' baby fly?

    few days ago, I found the fruit fly cup has some white little worm. I know that's the baby. I am happy about it. then I saw some brown worm stuck in the middle of the cup. what are they? I have more and more of them. are those dead babies? also, once a while I found some tiny ff fly out of the...
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    poor appetite, still active, very skinny, moult 2+ days ago, what happen to her?

    my giant asian mantis moult a bit more than two days ago. She seems skinny. So I gave her some fruit flies the next day after she moult. She bite off two flies head then drop them. I also found some fruit fly wings on the bottom ( not sure if it's from the same flies or not). I tried to take her...
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    should I feed her? she looks so skinny but she moult less than 1 day ago

    my giant asian mantis girl never eat enough. So, I don't know if I ever feed her enough. about 4 to 5 days ago she stop eating and last night at 2am she finally moult. now is 10 hours later. she looks super skinny. I know you should wait at least one day for its skin harden before feeding. but I...
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    Is this an ok set up for breeding fruit flies ?

    I plan to breed fruit flies here. Do you think my set up will be ok ? Or do I need to change anything ? I fail once. My flies food mixture become a dry dough. And I spray water in the bottle to try to make the dough more moist. But that just kill all the flies in there. So, I want to ask at here...
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    do you worry about your mantis run away and you can't catch it back?

    I am new to mantis. I have a hierodula membranacea. It is so small but it keep running and running so fast on my hand.  That's probably because it had just arrive my home after 3 days in a parcel. It's still a small mantis. what if when it grows big and has wings?  Will he run away and I can't...
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    New mantis owner from herts, uk

    Hi, I am Mrs.Houeland. a plant enthusiast. Recently I am into mantis and leaf insects. now I have a baby asian mantis. It’s my first mantis. I don’t know how long it’s going to live because I haven’t feed it for 5 days already. Cause my fruit flies still haven’t arrive yet. I should have it...
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