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Thank you!!!

Hello all, I have been MIA for a bit. last week I got my male and female popas together, and he mounted her after a while I saw the bottom of their abdomens were connected. This week she laid her first ooth and I just mated them again. Now I just have to school myself on what to do with the...

My Polyspilota Griffinii just molted to L4 but old skin is stuck to one of his feet, which was hanging down. I lifted lid, held onto skin and he draged the leg out, but it looks long and bent funny. Any suggestions? Freddy

Thank you everyone!

Frodo was the second among the pair to molt. His/her color has changed to a light grey/brown. Bilbo is still dark brown at L3.

It is amazing what the camera reveals about these guys close up. The eyes, coloration.

One of my L2s cleaning its foot. I could not tell them apart at this stage, so they did not yet have names.

In his/her terrarium

Just a picture of Buddy on a bamboo skewer.

These are the 5 pics I submitted for the 2016 Calendar.

My Dead Leafs, D. Lobata, eat them. For one of them, I keep a little plastic cup in the bottom of the coco substrate. The roach cannot burrow, cannot climb out, my mantis knows to look there, will see the movement and chow down. I keep my other in a larger enclosure, so i take her out and and...

Hello all! I have just gotten a griffin mantis, L2. I am having a very hard time finding information on this species, other than the fact it gets huge and is from Cameroon Africa. Does anyone keep these and have any advice toward special needs or considerations. Right now I am feeding him hydei...

Greetings!

Thank you all!!! We are really looking forward to the way this mantis changes from one molt to the next. The changes from L1-L2-L3... etc, look really striking, at least from the images. I wish I had a better camera for Macro. We will post :)

Greetings!!!