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Received some active and healthy mantises from Yen Saw. Excellent packaging, no injury even some mantises molted en transit. Yen Saw also reply to email promptly and ship out the package in a timely manner with extra mantises in.

Will lobster roaches survive and breed if they escape? I am thinking of getting lobster roaches but am a bit worry about them escaping and becoming pest. Thanks.

There was a thread on this a while ago http://www.mantidforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=841

know this place? http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=28455

Mantidfly? http://eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu/lab1/Neuroptera/mantispid.htm

I have received some very healthy and active mantises from Markus. A good dealer who replies to email promptly and sends off mantises in a timely manner.

Is it this one? Used to see a lot when I was in Hong Kong, but never kept one though. http://freebsd.tspes.tpc.edu.tw/~afu/312.htm

Hello Ian, Do you mind telling me where you get the mixture? Thanks.

Hello, I just got a friut fly culture and the flies look ok but the thing stinks like pee! Is that normal or does it mean I should start a new culture? Thanks.

Hello, I was preparing enclosures for my mantises and I just realized that the humdity in the room is about 20-30%. Upon some misting experiments, I found that I can barely hold the humidity of the enclosure to 60% after some quite heavily misting with the substrate all wet. Since my chinese...

Thanks for the replies. So it seems that inbreeding isnt a problem for mantids. I remember reading an article about wolf spiders a while ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3218509.stm I suppose these guys just dont really care much about inbreeding. I guess, statistically speaking, with...

Hello, The other day my friend asked me if inbreeding is going to cause problems with mantis. That is, when you hatch an ooth, raise the nymphs, mate them, produce another ooth, raise the nymphs, mate them, ......... , until forever, is that going to make the mantis smaller, weaker or more...