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Same happened to one of our Chinese Mantises last summer. Sorry to hear.

Montana_Mantids, Ah, you must be British. I too, was kinda confused at first.

Do you put the culture in the fridge? For how long?

Good to know. Might go ahead and give the powdered sugar a try. I too, dilute honey in a teaspoon with a little bit of spring water and so far, all of my mantids have seemed to love it! At least as a treat. It does seem to give a boost to the ones that aren't doing so well.

Interesting. Is the sugar an added nutritional benefit to the nymphs at all? I do know my pre-adult/adult mantids like honey as a treat/remedy.

LoL, a "Pooter"? I'm going to give the straw trick a try

It slipped my mind, as all these little guys are always super HUNGRY! Feeder control is sooo much easier with bigger mantids. It can be a real pain getting only a few (4-6) Fruit Flies from a 32 oz. culture with 1000s of the dang things doing their own thing (getting out/invading the house), in...

I've got 2x Rhombedera Kirbyi and 2X Majuscula nymphs at stages L2-L3 ish right now (1st time raising them that young). All are separated. How long should I let them harden after a molt before I reintroduce fruit flies? I generally wait about 3 days to feed Mantids @L4-L8. Again, this is my 1st...

Ugh. I was suspecting this was part of one of our mis-forms. This year, we're raising 5 Mantises (1 Rhombedera Kirbyi and 4 Chinese). 1 male (Maize n' blue) had a mis-molt from L7-L8. I was able to help him back up, although not in time, to where his wings were pretty mangled, but worse yet...

Thanks for being kind! Hope he/she pulls thru. What kind of Mantid? Female or male?

Absolute beautiful Mantids you have there, Wes!