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Yeah, great photo! Post more of those!

I bought some Crickets today. Hopefully she can still eat them with one good arm!

My mantis just had something similar. Her claw went from fine yestrday to all black after she bit a hole into it . I wonder if I should amputate or let her figure it out herself...

Why did you feel it was necessary to "euthanize" them?

I've been raising another wild caught Chinese mantis. Someone at my office found her very weak and laying on the concrete. I've fed her lots of grasshoppers and she is doing much better... BUT, over the past week, it has gotten cold and snowy in Ohio and all I've been able to find her are...

Thanks Mime and Andrew. You guys are good at this! Is there anything special to know about taking care of this species?

That top picture you posted (sitting on the car) looks a lot like this one. Are these Mantis religiosa common in Ohio? The whitish eyes also seem to match up to my girl. The main difference is mine seems to have a shorter, fatter Abdomen than the one in your picture. It's also got a black...

Normally, I see NO mantises in my local area. This year I've found 6! I wonder if I the dry summer was somehow good for breeding?

After caring for 3 wild caught Chinese mantises, I found another, different looking mantis on Saturday, just sitting by my garage door. I'll post a picture when I can, but can you help me identify it? It looks pretty much like the other Chinese that I previously raised, but is slightly smaller...

Thanks for the info. I should have tried to get him to mate. I caught a second mantis, which I THINK was female, but after reading about all of the danger of them hurting one another, I let the second one free. But now, I'm curious if I should have put some Barry White on the stereo and gotten...

This summer I saw LOTS of wild mantises in our area. Usually I see none, but maybe the dry weather was good for them or something? I don't know, but in early august, i caught a nice brown Chinese mantis that had been flying around. I gave it (him?) a nice enclosure, with branches, and plenty of...

Sorry to resurrect an old topic... I had that egg case in my garage all last winter, in a plastic container hanging from its branch. I brought it inside and kept it by my desk all spring and nothing happened. Eventually it started to get moldy so I thought it was a dud, so I put it back in the...

Thanks!

Last year I raised a wild-caught carolina mantis and she laid an egg sac. I used the directions from this forum to care for the sac: I glued it so that it was hanging from the lid of a small container and kept it refrigerated for a while with damp paper towels in the container. It never...

What about food? I can catch bugs pretty easily in the spring, but would I need a fruit fly culture? I suppose there are directions on how to do that somewhere?

Thanks for the reply and videos Precarious! I might have to go for one of those Gambians.

Wow, a lot of info there! I have not even hatched an Ooth yet, so no need to worry about me creating Mantid abominations.... But this stuff is fascinating to think about sometimes... A related question: Do serious breeders try to breed in desirable characteristics in mantis's, sort of like dog...

Has anyone tried crossbreeding Mantis's? It seems like it might be possible to get some neat looking bugs if you could get it to work.... But would crossbreeding mantis's be too difficult/dangerous to the parents?

OK, I'm hoping to buy a few juvenile mantis's in the spring. I could buy some now, but it seems like they'd be harder to feed and keep alive through the winter. Which breed is easiest to raise? Which is the "most fun" to watch?