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the heat would have been identical as we have two large cabinets both heated the same, i can see two mistakes i have made from the response's firstly i moved them within 2hrs of them hatching and secondly i sprayed them at the same time, not a mistake i will ever make again! thanks for the help...

Hmm maybe heat i guess but they are at 78/84 f much the same as there parents, i suspect mayeb it might be a lack of humidity. got several more ooths just dont want to kill any more!

Hi everyone just seeing if this has happened to anyone else, had two ghost mantis ooths hatch on the same day, most of the nymphs looked fine (a few had there legs stuck together from hatching). So i moved them all into a 18*20*29 cm viv with plenty of ventilation. I made a series of climbing...

Hi Damian thanks for the adult male ghost mantid arrived in 100% good condition and as promised. Great little specimen, now hes just got to brave the three killer females ! will definaltley be trading with you again ! Many thanks Guy and Jane

Heya every one just trying to get hold of an adult ghost mantis (preferably one able to do the do as it were :-)). i have three adult females but one of them insists on eatening evrything that goes in her cage (accept oldly the other two females). So after the last male got eaten we are stuck...

Ok, we are to blame for this problem...but despite being silly we really need some advice please! The photo's say it all but in a nut shell, our mantid has just laid her second ootheca on top of the first (5 weeks older) and we are concerned...what should we do? Advice will be gratefully...

Oh yes indeed and he was clever enough to run away when he realised she was eating something the same size as him!!

We unsuccessfully attempted to mate our Sphodromantis viridis today...oh dear! However, having read all the advice on here we called a halt to the proceedings and will try again in a few days. We thought you might like to see the photo's (they are quite comical and we think there could be some...

Wow, fantastic photo's and amazing collection of mantids. We loved the green ghost, beautiful colour :)

Ahhh, we understand fully. Our first ever mantid (Alan, the female sphodromantis viridis) will be meeting her boyfriend (Barry) tomorrow and hopefully making music with him and not eating him. However, we know she won't be with us forever and will feel very much the same.

1.01g :blink:

Really beautiful photo's. Just out of interest, why are you keeping her in the freezer, will you be doing something with her?

Thanks for all your kind comments, we are pretty chuffed with our first attempts at photographing them (and they are the most fun models to work with). The camera is a complete bargain, we didnt have much to spend on it so we found a man who knew what he was talking about. Its a FUJIFILM -...

We bought a new camera today and tested it out with some of our mantids (those that were happy to pose). We hope you like them:

Been out and bought more tea (we cant survive without tea and must make sure we have some incase a fellow bug lover drops by, especially from OHIO) :lol:

Seems viridis is the consensus, its great to get a conclusion. We are hoping to mate them next week, its our first attempt so we have read the recent post for advice and are hoping for success. They are lovely mantids, but we say that about all of them that we keep :) Thanks for everyones...

Thanks Katnapper - this forum is great! Bryce, what can we say, its probably more due to the fact that there isnt much to do in Plymouth ;)

Great, thanks for all the help....as a result we have done some more research...do you think they are sphodromantis gastrica? We think this because of the 3 yellow marks on the coxa. We have looked at so many pictures of mantids that we will be dreaming of them tonight!!! :blink:

Sounds good :D although if I leave him to his own devises we would have a huge collection - he is already planning the extension of our front room, something about a ghost super colony...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We wondered about this as we keep Ghosts too. We wondered if it was the same principle as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution B)