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Yeah I think they need something to grip to climb. Once the enclosure is cleaned and reset it should be good as new.

Oh yes those are booklice. They can quickly infest things. I have had trouble with them before. They love to eat starch and flour. Which is why they are called booklice because they will feed on the glue on books.

Don't use tape on the inside of any mantis enclosure. That is a hazard for any nymphs as they will get stuck on it. Use hot glue to glue the ootheca to the top or whatever you are putting it on. Or you could use thread to string the ooth up. Use a needle to poke a tiny hole on the edges of the...

Love the insect art! Thanks so much for sharing! And that 3D beetle is awesome.

Great communication and very friendly. Kept me up to date on package arrival. Packing of the package was great! I definitely recommend! Great place to get mantises from!

Very true. So it does make sense it would reference this forum. But I still find it creepy and do not like AI LOL.

I have a few recently molted ghost adults available. Males and females available. Ghost adults $20 each. PM if interested.

I would say feed her a bottle fly like you said and see if she takes it. When a mantis is laying an ooth, whether it is fertile or not, the best thing to do is let her be. Try not to disturb her while she is laying the ooth. She may wait a little to lay more of the ooth. I just noticed this post...

Gotta say the AI mentioning this forum is creepy.

Hello and welcome! Research is very important and it's very good you are doing this important step before diving right in. If you have questions there are many very knowledgeable people here so feel free to ask away!

To me it sounds like your mantis may have had an infection of some sort. Whether it was from eating the roach or some other factor will probably be never known sadly. But you can look at the habitat and everything to see if anything was off and go from there. Another possibility is mold could...

Hello, I would like some fresh blood for my ghost mantis breeding. Anyone have any i7 male ghosts or freshly molted to adult male ghosts available? PM me if you have any. Thanks.

Chinese mantises cannot reproduce without mating. So the ootheca is most likely infertile and will never hatch. Some mantises can produce clones (that is parthenogenetically) but I don't think Chinese do. So the ooth is most likely safe to remove and will not hatch.

Mantises will unfortunately try to hang upside down even if it's not good for them lol. But he should be fine and like you said does need to be able to hang when molting. And there is hope as I have had floppy abdomen fixed sometimes in their next molt. He's floppy abdomen doesn't appear too bad...

Wow love the pumpkin! That is so awesome! Great job in designing that! Mantis approved design lol.