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    Websites for Chinese mantids?

    hi its almost winter where i live now and i hadn't had a chance to go chinese hunting. would any of you know a legit website that sells/ships Chinese mantids and any other species?
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    Ootheca Hatch Time?

    sadly not from same mantid, 2 seperate females :huh:
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    Ootheca Hatch Time?

    hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i have an S.carolina ooth for about 4 weeks now incubated with plenty of misting everyday and it hasnt hatched yet does this mean its infertile? i guess i shuodl throw it out now i cut the other ooth open and some orange gooey stuff came out :lol:
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    Store Crickets R Safe?

    is it me or is it the crickets from petco, every year when the weather becomes cold in the fall and theres no more bugs outside, i have to turn to store crickets, which i notice all my adult mantids die a week or 2 after i start feeding them crickets, now my last adult female is dying at...
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    Crickets Chewing Ooth

    yours is much better
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    Crickets Chewing Ooth

    hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so i bought a dozen large crickets for my 2 adult female carolina and 1 of them died over night (im guessing becaus its fall and it laid several ooths already ) and i wake up in the morning to see 2 crickets chewing on 1 of the ooths on the lid , it looks like they...
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    Help Mantid Fell While Molting

    yep, fed it to the adult female
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    Help Mantid Fell While Molting

    i dont know how to keep it up, its only 1 inch long and its legs wont stick backon the lid
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    Help Mantid Fell While Molting

    it JUST started to molt and fell right after 5 or so minutes, i can barely see the exo skeleton coming off from it, its barely moving now
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    Help Mantid Fell While Molting

    my little s.carolina nymph was molting hanging from the lid and it fell all of a sudden and stopped moving, is tere anthing i can do !!!!
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    Species in USA, IL?

    hi so far i have found 2 female s.carolina and 1 already laid an ooth 2 days after i caught it, i havnt been able to go bug hunting much because i dont live anywhere close to spots with foilage , only city building walls. but as much as i have searched, i only found these 2 females and 1 male...
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    Bad Ootheca Place

    i read somewhere you were suppose to cut around the twigs that its laid on to not damage the part of the ooth the ooth is laid on the glass part of the tank and i dont know how to move it to a smaller container without damaging part of the eggs <_<
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    Bad Ootheca Place

    well i looked over and caught my female s.carolina laying her ooth right now and shes laying it on the top edge of her aquarium, but the tank lid's holes are big enough for the babies to escape, and i cant remove the ooth without damaging, any suggestions? :huh:
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    Orchid Mantis Purchase?

    hi i live in usa il and all i can find are S .carolina's. last year i found a big grown female chinese but not this year, i always wanted a more colorful mantis like the orchid does anybody know a website i could order 1 from?
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    Would 2 S. Carolina fight in same cage?

    i have found another female adult on my porch and would it fight the other female if i pyut them together?
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    Identify Please

    full grown... at only 4 inches size? darn i was hoping it was a bigger species
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    Identify Please

    Hi i found a 3-4 inch praying mantis in my garden and not sure what species it is, i live USA IL. as far as i know, its a female and it has that dot on the back of its wings,seen that on bigger mantises as well also how often do they molt? i'm waiting for mine to shed here is a few pics i...
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