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My lab is doing a research project on evolved preferences. We need a constant supply of mantids that are small enough to eat fruit flies that don't require a permit. IF anyone has some soon-to-hatch Chinese mantis oothecae or a large amount of L1-L3 nymphs they want to sell, please let to know. 

I have a subadult, close to molting, male orchid mantis. Looking to get him to bred.  Ideally, you'd pay to ship him to you, then send me about 20 L2 nymphs if you successfully breed him. I'd pay for shipping on those   Pet me if you're interested. 

Received a Brunner's mantis from this seller on Friday. She was alive and well. No complaints. 

Ordered a few orchid mantids from this seller at a very fair price. Communication was great and they all arrived happy and alive, so I'm happy with the transaction. :)

That last toxodera mantis on the stick is crazy. 

Is the creobroter (or maybe theoprobus) with the smile on its back already in the hobby? It's adorable. I need one. 

The flightless mutants only vary from wildtype by a single gene, and that gene is recessive, so if you have a population of flightless flies the flying variant won't come back without a new mutation.

I'm not totally sure if they're this exact species, but the ones I'm finding are about 1.75x the size of Hydei. Still smaller than house flies by a good amount.

I work in a fruit fly lab and there are some of these wild in there. I've caught some and they seem to be easy to culture. The larvae are huge.

Wish you could sort the site by which mantids are in stock.

They can penetrate after the head has been removed. One dirty trick to get males to mate is to cut the head off yourself and put the male on her back. I don't do this but I've seen video of it.

I'm from Missouri too. Where are you? I live in St. Louis. If only 40 hatched, it was probably carolina mantids. Chinese usually hatch a lot more.

cute

$40 each or 75$ for both. $10 for priority shipping. Will calculate express. Live arrival guarantee for express shipping only.

$5-10