Recent content by Chickie1

Whew, after the hastle of coating the wound with nail polish the little guy pulled through! :) Glad he is ok, finding him a habitat at the moment.would post pics but my camera is really bad at pictures, tried to take one and it looked like I was looking at a big blur. Oh well, guess I'll try later

One time my dad was looking at one and it looked right up at him, jumped on his face and bit him... It all happened so fast i screamed. Lol he was just looking at it XD he was not hurt, just a bit creeped out...so was I. Any clue what made the mantid wig out?

Here are a few distinct markings I have noticed on my mantid: a yellow spot under the neck joint on her chest, light yellow on the underside of her raptor arms, a spot on each of the two sections of her front claws, and a pink stripe along the side of her abdomen, and a medium green body. Hope...

Todya i found an injured mantid on my porch, her abdomen was bleeding and is hyperactive. What should i do with her? Will she bleed to death?

i had heard on a previous site they could after gaining wing buds (wasnt true apparently) . Oddly enough, when i put them together after reading the previous article, the male actually tried mate with my female, but before he could, she reared back attacked him . I quickly removed him before he...

Here she is, my l5 mymph Bella

well, today i took her to an outdoor cage and when i took her back in this evening she seemed just fine. Was it getting more sunlight that made this dramatic change in behavior, and apparently , health?

my L5 mantid, Bella, molted a few days ago. Before the molt she appeared fine, eating normally,ect. after the molt, she now will occasionally hold up her farthest right leg(possibly a molting complication), she also has little intrest in food, appears to be turning a darker green, and is...

ok, so im worried that my female mantid will try eating my newly caught male, because she often doesn't eat as much as my other mantids.This being the case, im worried she might just happen to eat something when i put them together... any way i can protect him? They are Both L5's , is this the...

was able to get her to eat a little bit after trying cutting the head off the cricket. but it took her a while to latch onto it

ok, my L5 female nymph, Bella, molted this morning an hour or two before i woke up. About twelve hours later i tried to feed her(giving her time to recuperate) and shy denied food even when i put it in her mouth. Even before molting, she was mostly reluctant to eat then aswell. She has appeared...