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Yesterday and last night my last female ghost molted to adult. No problems. Looks great, moving fine. Will feed tomorrow. Glad that is over for now. Almost 2 months between first adult female and last. That did surprise me. 

Very sweet lemonade to attract the local flies.    Always thought they were smart.     B)

I feed house flies mostly. Keep in dorm style frig in my room.  Works great for me. Another few weeks I will be feeding from nature. Love living in rural beef cattle and horse area. Lot of wild bugs around and almost no one uses pesticides around here. Gut loading is mainly to get vitamins and...

Aye! Was deep end.  Why I apologized .

Some of the older posts talk about moving the male out of the bug room for a few days. The idea being the air had been over saturated in pheromones and male needed time away from the females.

Clear plastic drink cups?

Passing around  "I heard or I read" can really cause many problems for those new to any hobby. Particularly with out a reference to check. Never believe any thing on the net unless you know the source and trust the source. Why not check around before spreading what may be untrue negative...

Welcome to the forum. Years of knowledge here for the searching. Breeding and raising Killiefish was my passion for years till the water weight got the better of me. LOL is now the opposite. These little plastic solo habitats weigh next to nothing even with the mantis.

Much better. I would not use large rocks like that in mine but does look very nice. Easy to see all of the habitat. Did you  put a sub-strata of pebbles underneath? Some form of drainage for the upper layer?

Yuppers. Should be fine. As Mantis_M cautioned, be sure it can find food to eat while youngin.

Thank you kindly.

Nice very nice!

Kinda depends on what kind of mantis. Might be right size for some, others so small they would never find food. The care guide for your species should give you help along with Jgods advise

This species is on my mantis bucket list. Did you think the mantis would prefer the flower for a hunting spot?  Studies show not only do they not do that, they pick spots where they will be the flower in the preys eyes. All else being equal the prey will be more attracted to the mantis than the...

The idea is to travel to an area, camp for weeks or months. Photograph and or collect what I can. This idea was more for base camp holding. Just putting the pieces together mentally at this point. @Teamonger Thanks for the links. Interesting...........The wheels keep going round and round.

Michael, my man, what a beautiful end for my long day. Been real interesting but this puts a nice finish to it!

This is fantastic. I have been trying to work out the logistics of mantis collection on camping trips and transport back home. Thanks so much. My niece has one full of shoes and I never made the connection of alternative uses. I see it every day and never made the connection.

@Logan_123 Some of the older posts from various forum members a few years back talk about ghosts and humidity a lot. Some said low some high in the habitat. But few talked about relative-humidity. What is the relative humidity of the room or house? If I mist a habitat to 60% humidity but my...

I live in horse and beef cattle country. Talking with neighbors  no one uses pesticides much. But am still careful with what I use. Leaves off a tree maybe after very close inspection and warm water bath. Not sure about dead leaves on the ground. Pick a leaf and drying it is another matter...

Aye.