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I've bought three cultures from the corporate pet store in town, and they all molded before the culture ran out. I was worried about spores carrying over to the enclosures so I tossed them. Luckily the last time I bought them my mantises molted and could take BB's so I wasn't out too much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm on a roll I guess! This is the result of my first ever foray into focus stacking, a process that takes multiple pictures at different focus, then makes a composite image of the parts of the images that are most in focus. At the macro level, it's very difficult to get an image of something so...

Playing around with the new lens

No worries @hysteresis! Just curious because I'm trying to branch out with different feeders.

I just found this moth flying around my porch light, not sure of species. I tried feeding her a giant hawk moth, but the moth was about 1 1/2 times the size of her--she tried to take it but she just couldn't and I didn't want to risk the moth knocking her off her perch. I was so close to buying...

I'm bored and waiting for work to be over, so I'll talk about myself a little bit. Over the past two and a half years I have become a huge Jeep Wrangler enthusiast. I have a 2009 Jeep Wrangler that is my baby. I mostly take it up into the mountains here in Colorado, but I also love going into...

Shadynasty going to town on a delicious moth 😁

Thank you @MantisGirl13! I am so close to getting a successful mating pair that I think I may just be worrying too much. The extra reassurance definitely helps!

Any update on your Idolo?

Thank you everyone! I'm glad you all enjoyed it! My other male is due for a molt soon too and I will try and catch that one too.

Welcome! I am currently raising two Idolos myself (probably from the same breeder even)! Awesome creatures! Just an FYI, mine are now at their fourth instar, and they are becoming more and more skittish. Your mileage may vary, but mine are kind of spazzes now and once they decide they want to...

Hey everyone! Another noob question, and predicament. So if you follow any of my other posts, you may have known that I went out of town for a bit and had to leave my mantises alone. I eclosed probably 50 Blue Bottles as well as dumped a bunch of pupae in each enclosure to allow ample food while...

I went on vacation and was welcomed back by two freshly molted Idolos! This is a comparison from when I first got them (very close to the time of creating this thread--I2) to now (I4)!

So my male molted to adult the other night! I posted a timelapse of it in the Mantid Photos section.

So Ongo molted to adult two night ago! I spent three days trying to catch this little bugger molting and I still almost missed it! Check out the timelapse below!

I am going on vacation soon (viva Las Vegas baby!) so I was experimenting with dropping some pupae in my female ghosts enclosures just to see what happened if I were to load the enclosures with pupae before I went on vacation. I dropped seven pupae in each enclosure. Within two days they had all...

Thank you all so much for the input. It looks like I'm going to be switching some things up. @Graceface I should be able to move my females to a different room until I can re-configure my setup for my idolos, but as it is, I'm basically creating an entire room that is climate controlled instead...

Thanks for the replies everyone! I just noticed my males wing buds getting really swollen last night, so hopefully he's gonna be molting soon! 

Hello again everyone! I am back with a question that I have been looking for some more info. Like the title says, I am curious about my two adult female ghosts and how often I should be feeding them. I have tried my best at searching this forum, and elsewhere online and I have yet to find...

Can't find the taxonomic name, but the newly-discovered Brazilian Dragon Mantis looks amazing. Would definitely be interested in those P. Kuhlii too.