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Oh wowza, lots of people seem interested! I also got a dm about it. Well I'll consult the lady mantids and see if they'll give me some more ooths, and my parents, and we'll see if I can start selling :) How much do you guys want to pay? Lol Here's Honey and the father Donovan

Alright so I've been keeping wild mantids for nearly 6 years now with great success, but I've just recently bred mantids for the first time. The first mating with Donovan and Honey went wonderfully (25 hours .. lol), but the second was less fun. Francesca completely devoured poor Donovan :(...

Update: Donovan and Francesca are in the act and have been for a few hours now. Francesca is kinda stressed out and on edge, so I'm hoping Donny can keep his head! Him and Honey were together for 25 hours so let's hope it's a bit shorter this time around lol. Goodnight everyone (on this side of...

Well it was at my school... Yknow, now that I think about it, I'm sure the school probably used pesticides. They definitely have rodent exterminators on campus often enough too 🙄. But .. quite a late reaction, really. You'd think poisoning would've happened quicker than 2 weeks later. I really...

Cool! One last question. One of my females has sores on the front of her eyes... I figured it was from rubbing against the side of her enclosure, so I got a bigger one, but they're still there. Will they ever heal, or will they stay because she can't shed anymore?

Just want to say that after browsing this website for awhile I finally found some Californica pics and I was definitely wrong. You're right, they're both limbata. Oops! Whenever I looked up "Californica" it just showed brown limbatas... Very odd. Oh well, now I know better! Thank you for your help!

That's really interesting! Thank you so much for that info :) It just feels wrong to bury a mantis while the pseudopupil is still visible... Feels like they're watching you. It's odd because it took about 48 hours for all big movement to cease. After that it was just slow, little movements I...

They're now "fully" dead, but how would I do that? For future reference.

But it to be this violent while they're still alive?  

So I just want to update on this. It's been about 26 hours since the "deaths" of King and Harry, but they're not quite dead. They're both on their backs, legs crossed, but they still "look" at me. In my experience, a dead mantid's eyes will cloud over and you can't see the pupils within a few...

Thank you.. could this possibly be disease? How can I keep it from spreading to my other mantids if it is? I'm going to separate King and Harry now (I expect they'll be completely dead in the morning..) and do lots of hand-washing between handlings, I guess. It just hurts how they look at you...

Okay so I just checked.... They're both flat on their backs in the death position, but still slightly alive. King is seizing again. Harry is holding onto a plant with his foreleg... I've attached a video of King seizing. I don't think this is rigor mortis(?) Because his eyes are still looking at...

No, I haven't fed these two specifically any wild insects, only captive. I also don't recall any new chemicals in use... About a week ago there was a bathroom cleaner spray bottle in the same room for a few hours? It's been quite awhile tho, and it wasn't actually sprayed. They were both caught...

Okay this is serious now because one of my other mantids is also acting up. Another adult male, presumably near the end of his life-cycle and caught at the same time, is also acting up?? He displayed randomly at nothing (not too weird...) But just a minute ago when I picked him up to move him to...

That's a super interesting and cool link! I'll be pouring over that in more detail later .. but it only gives the range of limbata and Californica, and there's no specific reference photos? I'm sorry, but I'm still confused. Also, that male refused to breed with that female, instead going for...

Also, if I happen to see him seizing again, I will attempt to film it. I've also tried giving him water via a wet Q-tip but he's not doing anything... His name is King and he's my little man :( Thank you for your help guys

Hi. So I have what I believe to be a male Chinese mantis. He's an adult, likely near the end of his life span (he's wild caught). I've had him for maybe 2  weeks maximum. He's kept in a decently-sized enclosure with mesh lid that I rinse out weekly and daily empty poop/food remains. Just a few...

That's what I'm trying to figure out. Thinking (hoping) some form of Stagmomantis because he's so small. I want to breed him to my female, of which also needs identifying

Okay so I measured and he's exactly 2in. Here's another few pictures

! So I have two adult mantids, Donovan and Francesca, and I'd like to breed them since they're both native to my area. The only problem is I'm having issues identifying the species and if they can breed. I'm fairly sure Francesca is a Stagmomantis Californica, but I can't tell if Donovan is a...