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I'm 99% sure thats the species I have. Thanks for the help! :)

My girl just recently molted to adult. She is so beautiful, I would like to take her out and hold her but I am worried. She was such a spaz as a nymph, I would hate for her to try and fly away and get injured. Is she better being admired in her home or is it safe to handle her? Any info or...

My brother asked me to hatch too ooths of Chinese mantids that he can release in his gardens. He has a large property with different gardens he would like to populate with mantids. My question is, how long after hatching can I keep them together before releasing in the wild. I would like to get...

I have some bud wing, blue flash and Chinese mantids. They are all on crickets but I hate crickets. The smell, the noise, the jumping. My brother recommended Dubia roaches. He used to feed them to his lizards. I was wondering if they made good mantis food? If you have used them a source would...

Other than my daughter never speaking to me again, I would worry about a mammal or bird harming my mantis. Bones and teeth tend to be tough. Fish I think would be cool though. Have an enclosure with a shallow water dish and drop some minnows or feeder fish in there. That would be cool to see I...

Thanks for all the replys :)

This made me lol at work. Thanks for the info!

I'm moving my mantids to the garage. I monitored the humidity and temp and it doesnt get above the mid 80s or below the high 60s in there so I think it should be fine. There are no windows in there so I was going to put a light on a timer. Do I need to use a UV light, like they make for reptile...

This is what I moved them to. 24oz cups with one fake stick. I put a soaked paper towel in there for water but I am still misting once a day. Is that over kill? I also change the towel daily.

I do have larger containers for them. I was thinking of using some fake branches and such. the wife does silk flowers and we have a ton of the filler branches lying around. Is there any know hazard to using them over real branches?

Thanks so much for all the input. Removed a lot of the excelsior. Looking for higher vantage point to put the littln's

Mantis Maniacs, OC Chapter 242? How would I explain our monthly meetings? :P

This is how I'm housing my nymphs. I'm not sure if there is too much/too little excelsior. I mist the habitat through the hole on top once in the am and once when I go to bed. I try to keep 4-6 flightless fruit flys in there at any given time. I don't have any heat lights on them so they stay...

I thought it would be good to intorduce myself as intend on eavesdropping in on as many conversations as I can in my pursuit of more mantis knowledge :) I have always been fascinated with mantids and I am now in a position where due to a great cover story the wife can't debate, I can keep...