Tenodera

Pesticide risk from wild-caught prey is extremely small in most places. If wild moths, flies, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, etc are...

no need to worry, the male is just getting ready for his final molt. his hood is shrinking a bit to its adult shape so you can see his...

If all her legs have been tucked close to the body, she was probably "playing dead" from something that startled her. Called thanatosis...

I understand that, and fortunately there are many correct ways to keep mantises. The reason I wanted to say anything here is because...

I see dents in the eyes of the one that died - to me it looks like they must have been damaged when it fell. The blackness might have...

Pretty sure you know me lol, I'm one of the admins on MM on Facebook. Plenty of very young nymphs will eat the same day as they molt...

Budwings tend to be a very hardy and healthy species. They do love to eat though and can fill up a lot, you should feed more than twice...

If you have many wild mantises in the area and your females are actively calling, this can work. Mantises aren't as effective at...

Misting on the same day as a molt is perfectly fine, especially for young nymphs. Adults of larger species take the longest time to...

I have one adult and four subadult female Idolomantis and have been searching for months for anyone in the US with males. If you have an...