Recent content by Mantis_1221

Well, my first mantids were chinese mantids, they are fairly easy to raise and don't require any "significant" heating changes as they are acustomed to U.S. weather.

Maybe you should stop waving your finger in front of her :lol: Well, I used to have a VERY vicous south carolina mantid my that my mom nicknamed Lucy. I had bought her at the pet store and she was constantly eating crickets, but she never tried to bite me, I could hold her all the time...

Bad moults can occur due to a number of reasons, it can be because of food shortage, getting entangled in it's own shedded coverings, or it might struggle to get loose from the old coverings and tear off a limb by accident. One of my mantids died from being deformed as he was stuck in his old...

It seems to me that mantid vision is based on movement, and it seems that crickets know this, because I have seem some crickets just sitting comepletly still until the mantis loses interest.