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thanks all! i am in central florida, so definitely east coast.

oops duplicate post

ok, reading some of the other posts... is it a Stagmomantis carolina? and how can i tell if it's a male or female?

i've been missing my mantis and have been wanting a new one. we have a lot of tiny wild ones around but they are really skinny and small, light brown compared to the chinese i had. now all the sudden in 2 days i've seen 3 large mantids outside and one i have caught. these pics are of the two i...

so now that we put ours out of her misery and learned some valuable lessons of what to do and what not to do, i want to move on and get at least a couple more. have some questions though. first of all i have kids and our mantis was kept in about a 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon size habitat on our...

yes they did a whole month or so in class on bugs and raised butterflies, mantids, etc. i thought it was a cool idea. i wonder how many of the other kids in the class still have theirs.

thanks! i didn't even notice that section!

can you all recommend where to buy another one? we'd like to have a couple more.

here's the pic

here's a photo of the damage :(

right side is functioning, right back leg is a little weak but not bent back like the right side legs. her left raptorial arm is getting in the way of her right but she's still pulling herself around. i have her in a steamy bathroom right now to see if that helps at all.

i can't believe how sad i am over this. to have raised her and watched her grow for over three months... she's trying to get around but just keeps falling on her bad side.

would it help if i try to add humidity now? it just molted overnight.

I so wish I would have thought to look for you all sooner. My name is Julie. We live in FL. In April, towards the end, my 1st grade daughter got a teeny tiny mantis as a gift from her teacher, the whole class did too. At first it was a novelty, just feeding it fruit flies and watching it...

oh now i am so sad. we love our mantis but she's definitely all messed up after this molt. :( i was hoping she'd recover. when i hold her she tries to get around but her legs all start to get tangled up. :(

Our mantid has molted and when I woke up she was on her side in the bottom of the habitat and one side is more deformed than the other. Her wings on her left are crumpled and most of her legs have kinks in them making them useless. Will they straighten out? Is there anything I can do to help...