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Does anyone have any advice on how much/how often one should feed their mantids honey? I ask this because I just had a little bit of a scary experience. I must have had some honey residue on my fingers (I'd made a sandwich earlier and had decided to give my crippled limbata some honey while the...

They're pretty communal if you keep them well-fed, but once they get a taste of that mantis meat...

You know, that gave me an idea. You know those mantids that get injured, or go through a mismolt so bad that they literally have no hope unless you hand-feed them for the rest of their lives? Why not try and transplant its head onto another insect, give it a second chance? Crickets are...

Oh God, I died.

Let's suppose that you can truly transplant heads, and they would be fully functional as far as controlling bodily functions. Now let's take a cockroach, which has two brains, one in its abdomen and one in its head. Cut off the cockroach's head, replace it with a random bug's head. Would the two...

When I first got some, I was under the impression that they wouldn't cannabalize because they like smaller food. Boy, was I wrong.

I'll bet they taste good fried. Maybe even boiled, if you add salt... Oh! You meant how do mantids taste their food? This is pure assumption, but I doubt they can even taste. Have you ever fed a mantis a moth, and watched it eat the fuzz that comes off the moth's wings? I doubt that could taste...

I need an adult male paradoxa to mate with my female. Ready to mate is preferred, but near-ready is fine too. PM me with offer and details if interested in selling

72. And all the mantids will be mine! (or at least 3 of them)

Ok, this will decide who gets to mate and who distracts her... Ready? Rock, paper, scissors!

I was thinking bacteria maybe, but I moved one of the females into a clean cage weeks before she died, and since she wasnt eating there wasnt any body pieces or anything. My sub ghost male died last night. Im starting to notice patterns, like he would wander around his cage, but when i would...

If it's a virus or parasite, it's only affecting the pictipennis... And I'm doing nothing different. I really wish I knew. As for the deaths, my highest amount of deaths in that amount of time was 3... Except for old age. My project for the week is sterilizing cages now... Ugh.

Well. I just have to say this. I have had some horrible luck these last couple of weeks. Let me list the deaths in chronological order. Adult male limbata (probably the female near him plus his inability to mate drove him crazy) Sub female pictipennis (unknown) Female orientalis (mismolt)...

I have a male that just molted to adult on wednesday. If I have extra males or dont need him anymore I can work sonething out with your friend

She lets you pet her back? Mine have always run away when i do that, or in the case of my most recent adult female limbata, claw me and not let go.