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Not all the crickets in a batch may be affected. This is why you should always quarantine pet store crickets for a minimum of 2 or 3 days before feeding to your mantis, not only to weed out any sick ones but also to gut load them with healthy & nutritious food and get whatever questionable...

Red isn't outside one of the colors a mantis's eye can turn. At night several of my mantis species eyes will turn dark red or purple and become green again during the day. Yours has one eye that is a different color and the pseudopupil appears to be a different size too, it could appear that way...

While they may not have actual pupils, the pseudopupil can change size making it look like they have pupils that contract and dialate. My Rhombodera basalis female's pseudopupils went from pinpoint to huge after being introduced to her mate. They've been a large size since but they do change in...

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The one on the ground may have fallen during molting and severely injured herself. Wings turning black and laying on her side not moving means she will probably die soon. You may want to consider euthanizing her to end her suffering.  The other one sounds like he will be ok. He will learn to...

It is possible for an entire missing leg to at least partially regenerate at the next molt. He may start with a little stump that gets bigger with each molt but since he is subadult & only has one or two molts to go before adulthood he probably won't grow back the entire leg if at all. He...

I'm sorry. If the kink is severe it can prevent them from digesting and eliminating properly. 

I'm so sorry she has taken a turn for the worse. Her leg injury is probably the cause of this, even very small injuries can be fatal to a mantis. A break in their exoskeleton can let in bacteria or cause dehydration. You tried your best to help her but sometimes things are beyond your control...

I use a different recipe or Repashy Superfly but I make both to about the same consistency and I have found that it works. The media should form and hold a stiff peak when you pull a spoon up out of the media. If you tap the cup firmly on a hard surface the peak should settle into a rounded hill...

She was on her back? Sounds like she might have fallen and didn't have the energy to flip over. That is a really bad sign but still hoping she can turn things around and get better. Is there anything else you did differently in the last couple days besides the new enclosure? Anything in the...

Hopefully it's not something serious and just extreme agitation from moving to a new environment. Hoping she will feel better tomorrow.

She is definitely agitated and extremely stressed out in the video. The injury probably isn't helping either. I agree, put her in a quiet dimly lit place and leave her undisturbed for a day to give her a chance to calm down. Since you've already given her honey water there isn't much else you...

The guy in the video says he feeds his flies honey, water & bee pollen mixed together in a dish with a sponge. I feed mine a dry powdered fly food from mantisplace.com that contains honey powder, bee pollen & other things and provide water crystals for water. You could probably combine...

Me too. I get blamed for every fly that appears in the house and I have to keep reminding my roommate that I am only keeping big fat blue bottle flies and fruit flies that cannot fly. Any houseflies and flying fruit flies found in the house are not my fault, they are wild flies that got in from...

Sometimes changing to a different enclosure can stress them out a bit. She is used to feeling safe in a smaller container or when you handle her. The bigger unfamiliar enclosure may have just overwhelmed her. She is also not used to glass walls and that may be another thing freaking her out...

Yeah those videos are awful some people will literally do anything for views no matter if it hurts another living creature in the process. However to them they are "just" insects and the general population doesn't get up in arms over it like they would if they tried to make a similar video...

I do something like that already with a 32 oz cup but I like the idea of hot gluing a 1 oz cup in the center for their water source and placing the pupae around it. I use water crystals to provide water rather than fruit as it doesn't rot and you just have to mist them to reactivate. I started...

It works for cats and mantises definitely hate being sprayed with water directly so I'm thinking that would probably be an effective method to get her to let go.  I know what you mean about their raptorial arms, they are surprisingly strong for such a little creature. When I hand feed them with...

Wonderful! This trick has saved me so much time and effort, I am glad I could pass it along.