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You aren't doing anything wrong, it is very normal for them to hang like this. I had a very similar cage lid and both my female Chinese Mantids hung off of the roof nonstop all their lives. Although there are sticks in the cage, they seem to prefer to hang from the top. They developed no...

I know this is an old post but my Chinese mantids ate Tarnished Plant bugs without any problems.

Green is hard to get in some species. All eight of my Chinese mantids were brown! Except one that was somewhere in between for two instars. Your mantis is beautiful in both colors, I love the forearms on Lineolas!

Thank you for the info, she has three legs, which may have been part of the problem, although she was on a stick when she was laying, the ootheca was on the wall. I put my other female in the garden and she laid a perfect case  :)

Both of my mated, female Chinese Mantids laid an ootheca yesterday.  One laid a completely unrecognizable mass on the glass wall of her aquarium. She also has quite a bit of the hardened foam on her abdomen end. Will this egg mass hatch/ will it make it through a simulated diapause (In...

Thanks so much, this information is very helpful!  :D

I was wondering how I could store oothecae in the fridge without them drying out. I had some last year that seemed to have dried out and died in the fridge. They were Chinese mantids, as are the ones I am trying to store this winter. I would leave them outside but the winters are too cold for...

Was the green female wild caught or raised indoors?

Thanks so much for the information!

I have two female Chinese Mantids (Tenodera sinensis) and one male. The male mated with one female but I wasn't sure how long I should wait between matings. I have been feeding the male to help him recharge but not sure on how long he needs.