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Here's how they are looking lately. I'm really looking forward to the next molt.

Not S. carolina? ..that would be awesome, I like a mystery. I know they can bubble up the ooth but regardless, going by the size of the ooth, I'm guessing the female was a decent size ...just rolling the dice there. Here are a few more pics.

Just a few more pics after another molt. All 12 still alive, this is the biggest one right now, moved up to eating crix and other things besides fflies.

Well most people are leaning towards S. carolina so far but it still has not been nailed down yet by anybody. Yes I separated them a long time ago, two or three days after they hatched. They couldn't even eat together because the movements of each other was distracting them from prey other...

More recent molts in the past couple of days. Is the species getting easier to ID? Stagmomantiiiis ....?

I just got back today and all 12 are OK but they ate all their fruit flies while I was gone, a few molted. I sprayed right away. Almost time to move up to larger prey. I'm looking forward to getting more variety in their diet. I guess I. oratoria (males) was what I was seeing around my porch...

OK, so the smaller one is I. oratoria, thanks ..glad it's interesting to some that I found it in my backyard here in TX. I live about 10 miles north of Austin. Well this ooth is empty, and I think some of those wasps I've read about had gotten to it a little too. There were a couple of long...

Just an update post showing some growth. Also, I found an ooth in my backyard. It's the smaller one in the pic. Can anybody ID it? The top one that is much bigger is where these babies came from. The reason I grabbed it was because it was on the large side. Does the smaller ooth look like...

I grabbed a native ooth recently too, well last year but they pretty recently hatched. I like native stuff. Cool that you got some ooths. That is a really great pic, very sharp! What kind of camera/equipment did you use?

Ok thanks. I'll post some pics at they grow B) . I hope... :unsure:

Nice bugs! I have scorps and pedes too. Found an ootheca and it hatched so it's my first time to raise some mantids. I kind of like the idea they don't live real long. Like was implied earlier, I'm seeing more eating and growing with the mantids than with the pedes, Ts and scorps. I think...

I found it in the w tx desert while hiking around Lajitas, brought it back. I kept about 10 babies, I'll post pics of some later. They are still real small. But looks like they are going to be diff colors. Here's how they are looking now.

Is this likely a Stagmomantis carolina ootheca (Texas)?

It was moved since I posted this before I introduced myself. But seems like an OK way to step in with an mantid pic/ID. My name's David, 44 year old bug person. I've been keeping bugs and herps off and on since I've had a memory but I've never dove into mantids. I'm mostly into the native...

Thanks. I believe that's still a nymph in the pic unless I missed a molt but I don't think so. It's eating a very tiny pinhead cricket in that pic. The ooth is outside now, I kept about 15 mantids. I attached the ooth to a plant with twisties on each end of the stick the ooth was attached...

Hello! I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I've only kept a few local mantids that I've come across and I've never hatched an ooth before until about a month ago. On one of my bug hunts last year, I was way out in w tx on the side of a mountain and saw a giant ootheca on a...