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All very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I did notice that he molted in the last few days. I also noticed small wings sprouting :)

Any updates on your mantis? Did s/he survive the bent abdomen? Mine has that issue now and I'm slightly concerned. I took him out of his cage and he was just as active as normal, so it seems he doesn't mind it at all but it looks bad to me.

Thank you so much for the good information. I will move my (L4 - he's shed at least 3x in last month) mantis to a larger cage as he seems to be moving around a lot more. I'll also start dumping all the crickets into the cage and throw in some fruit. I'm still at the point where I'm picking up...

I've always had good luck feeding mantises crickets and usually buy them at Petco in batches of 20 or 30. Because my wife will only allow me to have one large cage for the mantis, I usually leave the crickets in the plastic box with the cardboard inside for them to feed on. Usually about half of...

Thanks all for the quick responses. I've been very excited to see my little guy grow up over the last few weeks. The last mantis I had was fully grown when my wife brought her home.

I have a Chinese mantis that has molted 3 times in the last few weeks and is now about 2.5 inches long. A few weeks ago, s/he went crazy over the wingless fruit flies. I would dump in about 20-30 and then repeat a few days later. Over the last week, I haven't been seeing the mantis catch and eat...