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last night i caght her moulting and she died during moulting :'( the mantis in my pic is her

will it infect further? will she be ok?

i looked at my orchid mantis today and her leg was all black and mouldy and seemed useless whathas happened? what can i do? here is what it looks like

i have chickens that ###### all over the garden - i use a net over their :poop:

but i guess that in the wild you get the odd ground insect climb a tree?

i know that one of the reasons that orchid mantis cant have non flying insects is because they are adapted to living on orchids which grow high on trees where only flying insects will really go to pollinate then... BANG!!!! :hammer: :o :oops: :angel: lol bye bee

quite long around the same time and females have layed an ooth each

ive tried breeding my sphodromantis aurea (congo green) i have 2 females and 1 male one turned brown on her last moult and 1 is green but both definitely congos. the male is green and seems scared or not iterested in the females does anyone know why this is? or have any advice? both females have...

lol not in yr room. i got mine from a guy on ebay with some of my mantids

yea do mites kill mantids?

hi does anyone know i found some mites that had come out of a container on dead flies and then started eating some banana are they fine or parasitic would they harm my mantids even my geckos maybe??

hi does anyone know i found some mites that had come out of a container on dead flies and then started eating some banana are they fine or parasitic would they harm my mantids even my geckos maybe??

i bought two fruit fly cultures and when i bought them i noticed some tiny moving things inside. i put one under a microscope and saw it was a mite. not long after i noticed they had come outside the cultures through the net lidnow they are everywhere. can anyone else see these mites or has this...

congrats!

great pics! i just lost one recently as you know angel of death and laura due to a bit of a lack in the head department :( lol

i was just wondering if anyone knows how to stop an orchid mantis going brown when becoming adult? do you keep them humid? or with a pink orchid in their tank? or hot?

if i put one on ebay uk would you be able to buy it?

im in the uk and what i dont understand is why they sell 5 adult locusts for £3 when they get swarms of billions in some places and kill them all!

i just use a pooter i made - get a container put modelling clay/plasticine on top and stick 2 straws in 1 of the straws should have netting on the end that is in the container. to put it simply click here lol

my congo green male was in the post office for 10 days without me knowing it was even posted yet! luckuly he was fine :) lol