Orchid mantis health problem?

[Ax55]

My orchid mantis is black inside its thorax and underside. She doesn’t seem out of it but I’m just concerned if she’s okay or not

 

[Mantis Man13]

Hmmm... either thats food being digested or its a bacterial problem maybe?

 

[MantisGirl13]

To be on the safe side, give her lots of honey water and see how she does. Is her behavior weird at all?

- MantisGirl13 

 

[Mantis Man13]

MantisGirl, I believe she said that the mantis doesn’t seem out of it.

 

[Ax55]

She wasn’t acting out of the ordinary. Earlier before I posted this I gave her some water which she drank without trouble.

 

[Mantis Man13]

From what I can tell from some research ive done people have had problems with black spots on their orchids before and it usually leads to death im afraid. I have found some posts on the forums talking about this. All you can do is continue to keep it and see if the mantis recovers which it could do.

 

[hysteresis]

@Ax55 sorry. I lost two females to this, this year. When she starts to lay her abdomen flat, it'll be two or three days.

Sorry.

Seems the GI stops carrying the flies down. Maybe its infection, maybe its something else.

 

[Mantis Man13]

Im guessing GI is gastrial intestine?

 

[hysteresis]

Im guessing GI is gastrial intestine?

Digestive tract, yup.

 

[Mantis Man13]

Why did u send pics of that mantis?

 

[Ax55]

Could she have been infected from an injury? When she molted recently, I noticed at first there was this odd water droplet looking thing on one of her wing buds. When it dried up, I noticed it was some sort of wound; it was brown little indentation. I was too worried to mess with it because I didn’t want to hurt the mantis so I left her alone.

 

[Ax55]

Is there anything I can do to help?

 

[MrGhostMantis]

Not really. You could try honey I guess