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I'm thinking wait 24 hours so her exoskeleton can harden and then see what's going on?

She's a European. We've only had her for just under 2 weeks so this is our first experience of molting!

So our mantis has molted some time in the last few hours. Hopefully you can see from the pic that her rear leg is still connected to her shed exoskeleton. I can't really tell if she's just resting it there or if it hasnt fully come out. Any thoughts? Am I best to just leave her? Especially...

Thanks for everyone's input, in turns out I was just worrying too much! This morning she looked noticeably thinner and as soon as I put a locust in her home she started moving towards it. It got itself a bit wedged at the top of the cage where she couldn't get it so I picked it up with the...

She's just over an inch long 

I bought her but I don't know what instar she is, I didn't think to ask

Thanks!  I don't know for sure if she's molting but I'll get the cricket out soon, just in case.  

Thanks!  I'll try to be more patient and wait for her to either molt or be ready to hunt for something to eat.  The cricket I put in there a little earlier just climbed up the stick and got reasonably close to her, she moved to watch it but made no attempt to get it, so I'm thinking she's ...

Help please!  We got our first mantis, a European, on Friday.  She ate 2 crickets and a locust in the first 2 days then then since Sunday she's just been hanging upside down from the roof of her enclosure.  She does move around, but only on the roof.  I've tried offering her a bug in tweezers...