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I just had a male ghost pass today at about 11 months old, including 5.5 months as an adult.  I've only raised ghosts this one time but it seems like 5.5 months as adult is a long time for a male.  The other male died after 2 months as adult. So I am wondering - what are everyone's longest...

I have an adult female Chinese that was wild-caught and brought to me in October.  I don't know how long they typically live when brought inside for the winter but she's lived longer than I expected. She hasn't been eating the last few days which seemed unusual because she laid an ooth fairly...

I am looking for Rhombodera basalis nymphs, ideally a sexed pair as young as possible - L3-4?  I am hoping to wait to have them shipped until after the holidays. If you have nymphs that are around that instar, let me know!  Located in Michigan, USA.

I am hoping to get rhomboderas this winter and will need to up the temperature a bit for them in the colder months.  I know a basic desk lamp with an incandescent bulb is an option, but if possible, I thought it would be nice to use a heat emitter that doesn't produce light, such as...

First of all, I just acquired a wild-caught adult female Chinese mantid from a friend that had been on the lookout for mantids for me.  However, she found it in a bug box hanging from the neck of a child at a book fair at her kid's school. :lol:   She asked the child about it and he said he...

Hi everyone, I am interested in the Rhombodera genus as my next species to try, but I have some questions.  There isn't a caresheet for them here on the forum. 1. Is there much difference between R. basalis, extensicollis and megaera?  I see those three mentioned the most in the hobby it...

I have four ghosts that I purchased at L2/L3...or so I thought.  One girl is ahead of the others in molting and she was due to molt to sub-adult anytime now.  I came home Sunday to see that she had molted...and that she was drying out her wings!  Oops?  I guess I was off by one in their instars...

I just came home to find my female Chinese mantis started molting to adult while I was out.  She is very much stuck.  It must have been for a while because her wings have already unfolded.  She had slightly askew forearms from falling during her last mismolt, as well as two bent back legs...

I have a male and a female T. Sinensis soon to molt to adult and I have been considering trying to mate them if they both molt successfully, but I am still undecided.  Based on what I saw in the dedicated caresheet, I can roughly expect 3-4 weeks until a mating attempt, another few weeks until...

Hi everyone, I have two Chinese mantids, a male and a female, and I'm trying to determine if they are sub adult.  Since these are my first ones, I'm not positive, but I compared to a couple pictures I found on Google and the wing buds seem pronounced enough for them to molt to adult next.  Below...

I have a male and a female Chinese mantis and the male successfully molted to what I think may be L7 last week.  He has fairly prominent wing buds but being new to this, I don't know if they are prominent enough for him to molt to adult next time or not. Anyway, the female molted to the same...

I have two T. Sinensis that I think are L4-5 right now.  I have one in the Exo Terra nano tall (8"x8"x12") and the other just in a plastic container for the time being.  I have a couple questions about the Exo Terra terrariums for these mantids though. 1. Size.  Will the nano tall be too small...

Hi, I'm brand new to the forum and new to mantises as well.  I live in Michigan but I grew up in Alberta, Canada.  I had never even thought of a mantis as a pet before, and never seen one in the wild, so I didn't know much about them.  But this past fall, a friend mentioned that he had once had...