Recent content by markdneck

Although I am new at this and have not see then wings unfurled.

I have a great looking Green Giant Asian female that has wings as of her last molt and a Brown, male GA waiting for his wings to develop. I hope to mate them and get???? Is either brown or green dominant? To mate them, I guess I feed her up, not hard to do as she is a real glutton and then...

I love this Mantid hobby! I have a couple young grandchildren (their father is a marine biologist) who are getting real educational value through helping me. Great way to spend the Summer for a young kid!! The costs are low compared to other hobbies and Mantids don't bite (important to my...

Here is a dumb newbie question ... My wife and I will take a few long weekend trips this Summer; Las Vegas, San Francisco, etc. If I throw in a couple extra medium sized crickets and mist before I leave, will my mantid girls be OK for 3 or 4 days? I have a cat sitter come in to feed my felines...

My ravenously hungry Asian didn't eat today and all of a sudden she began to act oddly, dropped down for a bit to the floor of her enclosure and now I see a "shell" laying on the floor of the enclosure. My first molt! How long until she is back to normal and safe to fe d crickets again? Do I...

Most species of ants fight with other similar colonies over territory and keep their numbers dowen that way but I have heard that the Agentines (Iridomyrmex humilis) all have the same DNA, all originated from one queen and so they sort of buddy up. Where I live, Irvine in the "OC" they have...

Probably not, huh?!

"Guess what Honey, we are going to raise cockroaches and kep them in our fridge!!" No way! I'd be keeping my mantids with me at a motel! I guess my guys will have to eat crickets and if I catch anything else, surprise!

Someone here wrote that solely crickets is not good. I have a cricket keeper and feed them food which is supposed to contain extra calcium and vitamins. My "guys" are too large for the available fruitflys and here in SoCal, not bragging, it is so dry that hardly any insects except for ants are...

I have an L3 (maybe L4?) Wide Arm and a little larger Asian. I have had the first about 3 weeks and the second one 2 weeks and they eat well, seem to be doing well, etc. I wonder when I will see a molt? How long is the period between molts? Thanks in advance for an answer

But you didn't figure out this "faith" of yours that you mentioned. You didn't choose it, right? You believe it because your parents programmed you to believe it. Isn't that more like a mantitid's or spider's instinct than about anything? Had your parents been Mayans you would believe in a...

Mantid behavior to the existence of God ... Proves people into this kind of stuff are smarter than the average bear, I mean average bug!

If it is not attractive and landscaped looking, my wife won't allow it in the living room! My idea is to have somethng as interesting looking, as arttractive as a tropical fish acquarium, to house my mantid and as they are too anti-social to live together, I need a different species companion...

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I also bought too large a terrarium and want to use it. Now that I see my Giant (is it "Asian" or is it "Chinese"?) will come down and just like a little wolf, I can place her in my large terrarium but want to put more animals of interest in with her. I was thinking a vegetarian lizard or a...