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Yes, yes I am. :lol: I've been trying to find a male for Niki for a while. No success, yet, but I'm not giving up.

:lol: Don't worry about it. Maybe I should make a new topic on that? Niki says, "thank you." :)

Thanks. I didn't eat it, but I can vouch for Niki that it was, in fact, "tasty." Actually, my mom learned from me, so she sometimes plays it; that makes three of us in our house that play Pokémon (my sister is the other one). That irritated me during the first season of Pokémon especially, like...

Isn't she? :) Thanks. :D I didn't have any Bug or Grass types, but seeing as both Kecleon and Mantids can change color, I decided he was better to use. He actually helped Niki catch a cricket once by blocking it from proceeding further up the ladder! It looked like he scared the cricket, too...

Thanks. I'll try to take more "lovely and playful pics" soon, so check back often. :)

Here are some photos of my female Chinese Mantis (or Tenodera sinensis), Niki. I'm not a photographer, much less a novice one, so please bear with me. :sweatdrop: I'll add more photos every so often. Niki on her ladder. Looks like Santa has a new helper. :) A back view of her in...

No reply yet. But I hope Nikiesha will like Niki. :D Edit: She said: "Eh, I've never really been that big of a fan of bugs. But I must admit the Praying Mantises are extremely interesting. (: I like the name. ;) "

Thank you ismart. :)

This is why between using a Gatorade cap or misting for a water source for my cricket stock container, I chose misting. :lol: Not that I've had any of them drown before, but just in case.

You know you like mantids when... ...you refuse to kill any insect because you see it as "potential food" (no, not for you :lol: ). You know you like mantids when... ...you see an insect outside and you think to yourself (or even say out loud), I wonder if *insert name of mantis here* would...

Maybe it's just me, but I think "Staredown" looks a lot like a Pokémon battle between two Scyther. :lol: Wild SCYTHER appeared! Go! SCYTHER! What will SCYTHER do? FIGHT BAG POKéMON RUN

I know my Female Chinese Niki does in mine. :D

@Ricardo: I don't know very much about Chinese mantids in general, but my female Chinese, Niki, has flown quite a few times when out of her cage. She even flew onto my sister! :lol: I'm wondering though... do female Chinese mantids fly more often than males? Edit: By the way, these are great...

I guess that makes us both new to raising a Tenodera sinensis. I hope we can both help each other to take care of and raise Niki and Tweeg the best that we can. :D Oh yeah, I also found two more mantids the same day I found Niki. She was the first one I saw, though, and I thought at the moment...

Thanks. I just emailed Nikiesha about her. I hope she feels the same way I do about Niki. :D

Thank you for the welcome. I decided to move Niki from our cold basement downstairs to my computer room/hallway; I'd have to do it this winter anyway. My grandpa's 72, but he's in great condition for his age, so he'd notice I brought her upstairs. He doesn't like technology much and never uses...

Thank you for the welcome. :)

Wow, you're right. I don't know my mantids very well. I'll change that immediately. Thanks for the welcome. My grandpa let me keep her, but he's still hesitant about it. He thought she was a katydid at first and sometimes calls her that as a joke, and keeps telling me I should release her, but...

Hi there. I'm Jordan, a teen from a small town in Iowa who just last week found something I was searching for all summer: a mantis. I had experience with mantids before, albeit not very much experience. A year ago I had two mantids, a brown mantis and a green mantis, both of the species Tenodera...