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[Azziza22]

Hi, my name's Brandy I have loved all insects for as long as I can remember, but mantids have always had a special place in my heart. I've only had a few mantid species over the past 4 years but I'm hoping to continue having them around for the foreseeable future. I had a lot of problems with my mantises rubbing their eyes on cages causing black spots and I'm assuming vision loss, so now I let them free roam around my home, although they rarely move if they're well fed and watered. I wasn't able to time it right with my mantises so I wasn't able to breed them. So I'm hoping to get a few more here. In the meantime I have a few Chinese mantises hanging out around the house keeping me company now that it's getting colder in Utah, they all have such fun and unique personalities and mannerisms . I've been out of school for a decade, but I'm considering going back for entomology in the next few years. I have a few pictures of the guys throughout the years attached, but I recently got a better camera setup so hopefully I'll be able to have better pictures in the future!