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The 261 days old lineola checked out of this world. Lived with only one arm :) My daughter didn´t really like the bugs but found this mantis a bit special. She made this iceball so it can sleep well :) I think this pic is great.

I found this big juicy caterpillar on my way from work. :) This shield finished the whole thing. Enjoy!

Check out this dance haha

This one i put here because it was very stressy in the container,walking around nonstop and rubbing the face in the wall. Here,it seems very happy, And last night just when i fell a sleep i wake up by this noise BZZZZZRRR, it was flying across the room, this was actually the first time i...

Bodh Gaya knows what he is doing :) Has guided me through lot´s of trips :)

I got my hands on lot´s of grasshoppers for feeding but they were way to big for my lovin mantids,Huge! They were totally freaking out when they saw them But some of them was smaller. Here´s my Sub Patellifera takin on a hopper for the first time. I released them all into the wild today,they...

Haha look at the arms. Desperate!

Newly shed to adult, my calmest mantis ever.. meet Slaveneck And one of the shields,adult

I have a Rhombodera with a problem. One of the arms locks when ex missing a target, completely out of order. i use to take a straw and bend it free,click, and it is all normal again. So my question is, is this a normal thing? if i don´t help it it never opens.

My Polyspilota has become an adult.

Getting ready for mating... :)

Lineola. The mystery mantis. now L5. Polyspilota Aeruginosa. A Rohmbodera climbing A Patellifera enjoying her new gear, with the old lifestyle hangin in the background I have 5 of these and i think that they are very cool specie. i have 2 ladies and 3 males and the females are so...

Finally summer here in Sweden, lot´s of insect´sto feed my friend wohaa :)

Finally i got my hands on these :) They´re so beautiful.. Just love them One male and one female. And i got this one for free,he didn´t want it. :) ofcourse i say yes. I have no idé what specie this is, reaally jumpy! but i have a feeling that someone of you knows :)

Finally the first wings in my home :) got home from work and see this pretty sight ! And the next day my lineola did it :) (poor pics i know, didn´t want to disturb the drying) And here are the chips as i call them And wierdeye :)

And my new friend Toothpick with one antenna :)

I give them to my mantids as a snack and they all love it :) but what is it? haha They hand themselves in some kind of web,and the substrate is like mushroom.

This is what i found this morning. The exosceleton looked fine, but the creature livin inside was not, both rap-arms was loose after molt. It was alive and crawl around on the ground.. This was a freezer sitauation. How can the arms break like that in a molt?

Yesterday i saw an ad with an mantid for sale, this is very rare here in Sweden..so i went.. happie When i got there i got sad.. This guy got over 50 different types of reptiles and 50 types of insects.. Crickets walking on the waterpipes.. just like a horrormovie. The sad part is the...