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For anyone curious, Tickles' last molt was September 16. Her first ootheca was October 27 (she never mated), and her second one was December second which was drastically smaller than the first one. She has seemed pretty weak ever since the second ootheca. I have been feeding her blue bottle...

After my first mantis died the other day I ditched the fruit fly culture since it was about 30 days that I had it. I have been catching moths and mosquitoes to feed my other mantis. He/she has molted twice (I believe that's an L3?), and wanted to move on from only feeding fruit flies.  Two...

I'm sad to report that Manty has passed away. The other day I took him/her out of the cage for a cleaning and Manty leapt from my fiance arm from about 3.5-4 feet from the ground. I didn't think Manty would suffer from internal injuries since Manty wasn't fresh from a molt. Yesterday Manty was...

Yesterday was the first time feeding both my mantises since Manty had the blood on his/her cage. I fed both my mantises the same amount of fruit flies, but this morning I woke up to more regurgitation from Manty. My other mantis is fine with no signs of regurgitating. Should I be concerned now...

Thank you very much, @CosbyArt. That makes total sense that they would be a bad thing to eat. I don't think many animals or insects mess with fireflies. It wasn't something I had considered feed my mantis, I had caught it and threw it in the cage. It wasn't until about 20 minutes later I saw it...

Hey @proserpina, thanks for the reply. I had fed Manty about 10 fruit flies, and also a firefly that came into the house (I did not see Manty eat the firefly but I have not seen it since that night). Before I fed Manty he/she hadn't eaten in a few days due to molting. I waited a day after...

My oldest mantis, Manty (talked about it in my introduction) has recently began either puking blood, pooping blood, or something else but there are no signs of cuts or anything. I saw an old post from a few years back describing a mantis puking blood looks squiggly due to them wiping their faces...

Hey, I'm a new user to the forums, and I'm new to keeping praying mantises. My name is Mike and I am 34 years old. My fiance ordered ladybugs from a website to release into the yard to remove aphids from plants in the garden, and along with that she surprisingly ordered two Chinese Mantis...