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Alas my poor mantis had to go in the freezer, i'm gutted, it had been 5 months since he had his final moult but as i'm a newbie I wasn't sure how long he would live for. He was obviously suffering and as far as i can make out had gone completely blind, its just strange that it all happened...

Help! :-( yesterday i came back from work to find that my adult chinese mantis's right eye was completely black , i thought it might be due to rubbing against the glass enclosure as has been mentioned in other posts,so disn't worry too much, today I get up to find that my mantis keeps falling...

Ah it's been confirmed that it's actually an common African mantis. I live in the uk and got it from a pet shop but the owner couldn't confirm the species. Thanks for your help

Hi guys, i'm very new to this, got my first mantis in early december and he/she has sucsessfully moulted last week ( much to my relief, as it was my first ) here are a couple of pics of my mantis, not 100% sure what species he/she is, i'm assuming that as the wings are starting to show it may be...

Hi there! i'm Chris from birmingham UK, i'm 35 and have just the one mantis which i got from a petshop 4 weeks ago, i don't even know what kind it is as it was part of a jungle jar kit from metamporpasis.gb.com. Mantids are so hard to come by in the UK and i've wanted one since coming accross...