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I don't care what you appreciate or not. Who do you think you are to talk like this ? The Queen of England ? As a famous person , you'd rather remind me of Paris Hilton.

Who are you, you, brainless little teen girl, to say that I'm stupid and to order me to STOP ??? Do you think I have lessons to receive from a stupid teen like you who knows nothing about life ? I am a 38-year man with a doctorate in English literature and a master's degree in biology. So shut...

Yes, especially when I disagreed with the fact that moulting was influenced by humidity rate, and I had to post pictures showing my mantids had moulted successfully at only around 35% humidity, and yet 2 breeders did not believe me ! Or when I observed several successful matings with my...

A very interesting analysis.

Not a lie, not a joke. Stool testing is called "coproculture". If one day you suffer from gastro-intestinal symptoms (which I wish you NOT), you GP may ask you to take a sample of your stool and take it to a lab. Besides, insect pathology DOES exist (bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans). It is...

Who said I would "give up" ? Not me.

I guess you have not read the right books... I cannot let you spread the idea that "...no one is funding research on mantis maladies and that therefore, there is no scientific information on them." Example of a thorough book about insect pathology (568 pages) : The principles of insect...

Hello, Well, I guess that's because you're a cute teen girl. I am a "declining" 38-year-old male lion ! Kind regards, Oliver

Hello, Good idea. Please keep us informed. Thank you, Oliver

Hello, Yes, you did miss something : a topic about "vomiting" that has been erased from the "Food and Feeding" section of this forum, in which Phil stated that I was the only stupid breeder to have trouble with my mantids vomiting, that the idea of a germ causing cross-contamination (suggested...

Hello, Please follow Phil's advice : kill all your mantids and try another hobby like collecting tie clips for instance. I'm having the same problem with all my mantids which are dying from vomiting and diarrhoea. According to Phil, that cannot be due to any germ affecting the mantids which...

Hello, it once came to my mind that my "ill" mantids could be suffering from bacterial infection and that I might try antibiotics. But I gave up this idea as indeed, 1-There was no evidence that the cause of the disease was bacterial infection 2- Even so, antibiotics given to humains or other...