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<blockquote data-quote="Nepfreak" data-source="post: 138752" data-attributes="member: 4212"><p>Cute babies! You can sex them tentatively at L3, and you'll know for sure by L4 -- the females' abdomens will have more flared, leaflike appendages whereas the males' will be more coarse.</p><p></p><p>how many are you keeping in that container?</p><p></p><p>My only concerns would be that there may not be enough places to molt with all that straw. They should be able to easily find a place where they can hang with two full mantid lengths underneath them. watch them to see if they're having trouble catching prey -- if they are you might want to remove some of the straw to give fruit flies fewer places to hide.</p><p></p><p>That's my two-cents, but wait for some more experienced members to respond as I have been keeping mantids about a week. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nepfreak, post: 138752, member: 4212"] Cute babies! You can sex them tentatively at L3, and you'll know for sure by L4 -- the females' abdomens will have more flared, leaflike appendages whereas the males' will be more coarse. how many are you keeping in that container? My only concerns would be that there may not be enough places to molt with all that straw. They should be able to easily find a place where they can hang with two full mantid lengths underneath them. watch them to see if they're having trouble catching prey -- if they are you might want to remove some of the straw to give fruit flies fewer places to hide. That's my two-cents, but wait for some more experienced members to respond as I have been keeping mantids about a week. :P [/QUOTE]
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