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Sometimes if you save them from the cold they live a few months and other times they die shortly after even if you get them before the...

It might take a few molts.

The only known hybrid and quite variable

No, no interest in them.

Here's a really nice, big species.

Hate to be a party pooper but I think you need an export permit from USFWS to export more than six specimens (for dried arthropod...

4th instar sexed pair $250 plus shipping, different parents, 2023 offspring, 2000 stock.

Welcome to the mantid forum!

They're not parasitic, the parsitic ones attach at the joints and usually look like odd polyps when immature. They look really neat, but...

She would not eat in that state, hopefully she can molt without getting stuck.

European mantids are usually easier, mostly because they are shorter and aren't so prone to molting problems. Carolina and California...

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Chinese mantids are more difficult to rear than most of the common pet species and finicky on molting surfaces.

Some parthenogenetic phasmids throw the rare male but in the phasmids the males have never been found to be functional.