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There's no such thing as a pupil when it comes to insects. Each "cel" in the compound eye is its own sensory organ called an ommatidium. I know what you're talking about with the "dot" and I have no idea what causes it, but if I had to guess I'd suggest it's some sort of artifact caused by...

There are people who like Metallica black album and before and those who like all Metallica. I probably fall into the first category. I can't really warm to their new(er) stuff. In response to Mantis Dude: I also play guitar and my musical taste is pretty diverse. Just don't ask me to listen to...

People are discussing two seperate subjects here. 1. Mortality rates of the insect when it is out in the wild, doing its thing, in its natural habitat. 2. Difficulty of raising it (for whatever reason, such as difficulty mimicing its natural habitat in a closed environment). The first one is...

Maybe he did, maybe he found a bird (or a bird found him). It seems a little late in the year for Mantis in my neck of the woods. Where do you live? What kind of Mantis was it that you found? It's getting colder in this region (Northern NJ), but I've never seen a mantis out here in the wild anyway.

Don't tell Mom!

Oh wow. One really did molt, now I can totally tell the difference. I'd forgotten how dramatic the size difference is between molts. Awesome!

Help me out here, guys. This new batch of Tenodera nymphs all appeared to get larger, and fatter, about the same time. They live in canning jars with a stick to hang from. I usually don't seperate them until they're big enough to kill each other. After they were about a week old most of them...

It's been my experience that the Chinese (which is all I've ever raised) have a fairly diverse set of appearances. Color morphology will differ even between siblings; it's not uncommon, for instance, for some of the brothers and sisters from the same ootheca to be all green or all brown. The...

Insects have a more distributed nervous system than do mammals, hence the whole being able to live (and mate) without a head aspect. Read about the ventral nerve cord. The part of a mammal's brain that controls involuntary functions is centralized; in insects it is more distributed. It seems...

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Hi, Another Mantid enthusiast from the East coast (US) reporting in. I've been raising mantids ever since taking entomology at Purdue University. Took a break for several years, just now have a new brood of tenodera nymphs. Was clueless that such a community existed. Very cool. I've never...