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Hello everyone. So, I thought my male and female were one instar apart (female molted to adult 3-4 weeks ago), but turns out he just molted to sub-adult yesterday. So I'm in need of a mature adult male to mate with her. I prefer to borrow a male and pay in ooths, but I may be able to afford to...

Male Ghost mantis finally molted again today, after a long wait of over 6 weeks, to adult. Or so I thought. I swear he's the size of my female adult Ghost who has her wings, but his look like sub-adult stubs. Please tell me he didn't just molt into sub-adult. My female has been an adult for...

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Came home from the store tonight to find probably over 100 babies had hatched! I'm gonna have to separate them into groups tomorrow.

My female Ghost is almost 3 weeks into maturity and is calling for a mate, who happens to be in the cup right next to hers. It seems like it's been a long time since the male Ghost's last molt, and I'm eagerly waiting for him to molt so I can mate them soon. Both under the same conditions. Is...

Which species have the shortest ooth incubation time?

I feel dumb asking, cuz I'm really impatient when I have to wait for something I'm tremendously excited for. But, I have a sub-adult male ghost who is coming up on two weeks behind my female, and I have two Chinese ooths I'm trying to hatch. So, question one: how can I make my male molt sooner...

I live in Northern California about a mile from the ocean. On average, the temperature here does not go nearly as far in either direction compared to just 30 miles over the hill where summers are hot and it snows in the winter. Average 75-80 degrees in the summer days and ~30-35 in the winter...

Hello everyone, I'm still pretty new to the hobby and need help. I have one adult female and one sub-adult male ghost. The female molted just this Wednesday, and I caught her just towards the end of it in the middle of the day (they normally molt at night for me). While she was still sub-adult...

Hello everyone. My ghost mantis has been alone in her container for at least a couple months now since she ate her once potential mate. When I checked up on her today after work, I quickly noticed she had laid an ooth. I'm just curious, is it at all possible for the unfertilized eggs to hatch? I...

I got a few mantids (a Chinese mantis and two ghost mantids). I've been having to hand feed them for the past few weeks because they are too big for fruit flies and I haven't been able to get larger flies for them, so I've been hand feeding them meal worms. I was just wondering: when I am able...

My Chinese mantis, the same one with the kinked abdomen, recently molted. Seems to still be very healthy and moves around a lot when I handle him/her. However, I believe he/she had issues during the last molting process and it resulted in him/her ending up with a curved left forearm. It is...

I have Chinese mantis, who's been very healthy until maybe a couple or few days ago. He molted recently, also about 2 or 3 days ago. I just noticed last night, while he was hanging upside down, that his abdomen was kinked, or folded, at the base. When right side up, he looks healthy mostly, his...

To start off, when I was a kid I used to love catching wild mantids and keeping them as pets. I always though they were the coolest insects by a long shot. I bought my nymphs on eBay, but I found mantisplace.com shortly after. It'd been at least ten years since I've so much as seen a mantis but...