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she was about 3,5-4 weeks old and the mating pair in the pictures was my second try, I thrown the male into female's tank and that worked, but female got sick and died soon after mating finished so this one was a fail too. I would try to mate them inside a spacious tank where you can control...

Yeah, when I tried to breed Orchids last year, the males seemed to be very interested and drummed female a lot but they coudn't reach the female's abdomen. This time, male didn't even seemed to be aware of female, and on sunday morning when I light up the heating lamp for my mantids I just put...

these pictures look better on my camera than in the post.

At last, some kind of success with this species.

received 5 Popa spurca from frey.

here's some more pics

I didn't breed them yet, I decided to play the whole year circle and I will not try to breed them until the middle of may.

Female Empusa pennata having a fly Here is a male And here is my subadult orchid, playing with fly thanx

I have diapaused my empusas and it worked out great

the same here, this species is just pain in the ######,they don't molt for a long time and it was middle of december so i though it would be perfect time to diapause them but they started to molt during the diapause and after that, they stopped eating they couldn't even walk properly and they...

As for me, I want to believe that there is some intelligence in mantids, yeah we got all the technology, science and theories to indicate that there isn't but non of them can realy be equivalent of actual mantis perspective.

I guess that's kinda hot:D

I have seen mantids killing insects way bigger than the selfs so that doesn't surprise me:D

I have two mateless females of Hymenopus coronatus i pnigomantis Medioconstricta so i'm looking for males, if any one has any for sale or loan I would greatefull.

so has anything hatched so far?

how often does she lay ooths?

I like his antenna:D

I think ABbuggin got his pennatas from avantis who lives in Uk so shipping overseas may not be that big problem. You may also try and see if any one else in the US have them.

looks like females:D

if you think they are the same sex, i hope they're females cuz I think I got only males:D