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Figured I'd post an update for the heck of it. She molted again a bit ago, and it went smoothly. The leg is still unsteady, and she is favoring the other side heavily but its moveable and usable. She still has another molt to go at least before adulthood so it should hopefully resolve itself...

Every single mantis I've raised so far has wanted to use the sides as well. No idea why.

You can get a huge roll of the rubber/plastic mesh at walmart for under $5

So I've been keeping a mantis each summer for the last few years. The regular find one outside, yoink it, raise it, let it go when it reaches adulthood to go make baby mantis's thing. This year, I've encountered something new though. The mantis, I believe its a female chinese if that helps...

Thats what confused me, she kept eating normally right up until she molted, took a fair sized moth just the morning it happened

If the raptor is still attached, just malformed because of the smack while molting, you could potentially try to make a brace for it. There is another thread somewhere around here where his mantis had a bad molt and the raptor was out 90 degrees, he corrected it with a brace and the subsequent...

Oh thank god. If its the visible injuries or getting stuck in the old skin that kills them then we should be fine. She looks completely normal.

First time with a mantis and the mantis' first molt with me, and I didn't realize how close it was to molting, since it ate just this morning. I misted the cage and it immediately began its molt when the water hit it. It slipped about 1/4 of the way through the process and fell face first 4...