Recent content by robo mantis

Received my order of mantids from Dave today, all arrived very healthy and in great conditon! Will do business with again!

I received some spiny flower mantis nymphs from yen, yesterday. They all arrived in good shape! It was a great birthday present!!

I have a ghost mantis who rarely eats too and its abdomen was paper thin. I got really nervous and even tried feeding it honey, but it rejected honey also. What i did was i gave it a lot of water and it drank til its abdomen was half full like it just ate a fly. I have a theory that the ones who...

Got some House Fly pupa from him this week. Good communication and fast shipping, will buy from again!

Wax moths are PURE EVIL, take it from a bee keeper.

Here is my setup that I used years ago. Side View

I got them from yen a few years back. Only had one. I still have the setup. I could go get some pics of it. The mantis molted and then died a few days later. I believe overeating can actually be a problem for this species. Not too sure on cause of death but i sure wasn't happy about it. I had it...

Could be one of two things I believe. In my culture, the larvae do climb up the sides to pupate on the walls. So that is a possibility. Another thing that could be the culprit is lack of air or poor circulation. I've had similar with ants and other bugs I've kept. If the population gets too...

I keep every sort of bee (honey bee, bumble bee and solitary) haha so any questions, send me a pm and i'll be glad to help!

I ordered 4 different species from Patrick to help jump-start my mantis collection again. They arrived quickly and in very good shape! All were very fat and healthy nymphs! He even sent a few extras!! Which is always nice! :) It worked out well since one of the lineola nymphs thought it was a...

I had a male budwing live over 2 years as well! He was an P. agrionia. Somthing is different about budwings that they live so long. I wanted to have this male stuffed because he lived so long hahaha! Just getting back into mantids again with a variety of mantids and budwings being among the...

Yeah hahah! I know a lot about bumble bees. I'm going to raise a few colonies next spring :-D

Those aren't bumble bees. Those are solitary carpenter bees. More aggressive than bumble bees.

I have had green mantids before caught around here. Were they religiosa or are there such a thing as green chinese? Because i always thought the green ones and brown ones locally were chinese maybe i'm wrong?

I'm looking for some carolina mantis ooths. If anyone can get me some PM me!