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I am Horatio, a policeman from Miami and I wear sunglasses... 8) Actually, I am a 42 year old mom (two school kids) and I have a very mantis supporting husband/best friend (14+ years). I did 4+ years of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta (Zoo major, Bio minor) before transferring...

I forgot to add that the molting pictures are superb! I can hardly wait to show my kids! We haven't seen ours molt yet (however, we did see them hatch). How is your L6 male doing?

Wow! I will have to show my family this run of pictures! They all have started really becoming fans of these fascinating creatures. (However, I remain the primary care giver aka insect hunter/feeder). I can't believe how beautiful the Orchids are. Almost like little princesses (or princes)...

:cry: I am married and have two children going to an elementary school just down my street. When I saw the news, my first thought after "MY GOD!" was to get my kids together and explain things to them. I have to always find a balance between telling them which facts they need to know (before...

:shock: Well, with this spiderling thing, I have learned that they really do go everywhere. Even though I keep them in two containers - a main one that holds the bulk of them and then the feeder one (with less), I have little tiny spiders that go everywhere. It happens mostly when I feed. In...

Maybe this leads back to the topic of "Do mantids have emotions"...Perhaps he has cricketphobia...Perhaps he was bitten after hatching and needs mantis psychotherapy (joking...) :D I did, however, have a nymph who crawled all over me until an agressive male child held him and just about...

:shock: I think I am glad that I took the hundreds of spiderlings out of my tank...I want my little guys to fatten up, but wow!

:shock: I am very thankful I moved those spiderlings and the last of the egg sacks yesterday. I learnt a lesson on how many can actually hatch - I have millions to feed my guys as many more spiders hatched today!!! My kids were quite amazed! I am wondering if the volleyball batting behaviour...

It certainly would make the bug meal thing a whole lot easier. I went to Petsmart in Edmonton and they looked at me funny when I wanted to get different bug feeders than what they had. I am going spider egg hunting on my house again today - we have a great yard for bugs. The only challenge I...

:P I had been obsessively searching for fruitflies in Camrose, AB, a few weeks back - trying to find any bugs, really, to feed my nymphs that had hatched in the mail. SOOOOOOOOOO, my dream was that all of my mantids turned in to herbivores and were eating all of the bird seed grass that my...

:shock: Well, my husband warned me about the spider egg sacks...Anyway, they hatched. I think there are two kinds. The first spiderlings the nymphs liked to hang on the sack (suspended from a stick in the cage) and snack on the wee ones as the spiders hatched (kind of like a breakfast bar)...

So, does this mean that the two species my sister and I have from Pennsylvania and Maryland should not be put in our backyards in Alberta and Ontario? Horatio.

Hi there Sis! Now I know how to spell Nacho Libre. I am so glad we found this site for our new "pets." By the way, did you ever think we would be raising Mantids? Horatio. 8)

Hello! :D I was very excited to find this site!!! My sister and I have embarked on a Mantid journey. She sent my family three egg sacks that she bought from the USA. The first one hatched in the mail and, although we tried, we had a 100% mortality rate. However, when we had one nymph...