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Purchased two ghost pairs, one adult and one subadult. Clear and responsive communication, and everyone was well packed and arrived alive and healthy.

I ordered a bunch of ghosts and communication was prompt, packing was safe (heat / air cell insulation), and everyone arrived healthy, active and are going strong two weeks later. Absolutely someone I will save as a preferred person to work with.

I'm a noob looking for an adult or near adult C gemmatus male to mate with three recently emerged females. In the macro-vertebrate world, we hatched a warm-blooded chicken egg that got kind of accidentally incubated, so, not a mantis, but similar level of excitement, will be startling up ghosts...

Thanks for the feedback. If you have the time, what body parts are we trying to distinguish? I can focus on them when taking pictures, or puzzle over them myself. Hopefully it's not like some butterflies or fruit flies where you have to dissect out the genitalia, aside from being beyond my...

fascinating thread, I would also love to find a female and start a colony of native phasmids. I and a friend have found ~6 over the years in a stand of locust trees in Tompkins Co., which I think is also a preferred host, but all were either juvenile or already adult males. I'm guessing the...

Did the pictures come through, any determination?

I'm very interested in this thread, because I'm starting to raise BSF for chickens, but feeding to mantids is a bonus. I'm really interested in if others have had problems with them. I've fed a few already to flower mantis penultimate and adults, they seemed to like them and are thriving (just...

I understand, I would actually also appreciate any links to a clear description of the differences. I've also emailed the person I bought them from, since the source culture is likely to be the same species, no matter what. Here are pictures, and thanks for the responses already

Hi all, I have three recently molted female Creobroter pictipennis, I'd love to breed them, but don't have a male. I'm happy to buy a male close to or already adult male, but I'd also be happy to ship one or two of my females to someone, and we could split the oothecae if she mates successfully...