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Well @MantisGirl13, we are quite seasonal here. Summers are very dry, winters are snowy, and we typically only see limited rain in the spring and fall. The precipitation has all been snow since November lol. It's a long way off from Seattle weather; those mountains change our weather on this...

It's raining here today. First time I've seen any rain in months, lol. It actually confused me at first hahaha

Houseflies or Blue Bottle Flies at L4 is what I do. Houseflies would be best at that instar, but they may be fine with BBF. I don't feed mealworms or anything that could bite or harm a mantis, just to be safe. I've lost an Orchid to a cricket bite the one time I used them as feeders in a pinch...

We got to 65 here yesterday! That is downright warm lol

Welcome! 😁 

Uh oh, sounds like a challenging one! Good luck! ❤️ 

Congrats! She is beautiful ❤️ 

Molt used to get autocorrected a lot, but now my phone remembers most of my mantis related words and doesn't give me issues. Ooths has been changed to oops, which is funny! 

Totally hates you! Lol I know the feeling, Ghosts can be moody and aloof to my presence at times. Others, they seem to want to be my best friend and refuse to leave me alone. Go figure.  Give him space and I'm sure he will come around As to honey, I've read claims it is bad for mantids. I've...

Thanks @MantisGirl13 He seems fine other than the wings, so I will likely just let them be how they are. As long as he can move and eat, which I think he should be able to do, then I don't see the need to cause him any more pain. I may move him to a larger enclosure, just to ensure he has...

Good job! I have some subs that are siblings with my presub females, but I haven't managed to time it perfectly as yet. I'm usually having males mature before my females, though I'm close enough to still breed them, so I'm okay with that

Adult females should be L8, so a sub adult is L7 👍 I've noticed wing buds as early as L5, though they don't seem pronounced at that instar. Presub has more noticeable wing buds. When she is a sub preparing for her final molt, the wing buds start to discolor to a yellowish color, in my...

I had one of my subadult male Ghosts molt to adult, but he can't seem to fold his wings to put them away. I found him yesterday evening hanging from the lid seemingly inflating his wings. Later in the evening he was still inflating and I let him be. However, this morning he still has not folded...

She is on the smaller side, I'd say, it's hard to tell from the pics. My females have been anywhere from 2 to 3 inches, usually around 2-2.5 inches.  Beautiful girl! 

I named him for Domenic Toretto from the Fast and the Furious franchise 😂🤣🤣 I had a Brian and a Letty, too! 

Yes, Domenic taught me so much about how to care for males. He was a champ and I only wish Xena had been receptive to mating with him. Sucks that I had no other females to breed him with during his adult life, the timing was just off for him. I lost my adult females when he matured, Xena...

Domenic was my favorite male Orchid mantis, and I had to put him in the freezer yesterday. He was an old man, having molted to adult 11/7. Must've been 100 in mantis years!  He had lost 2 back legs from age over the last month, but has been eating and hanging on this whole time like a champ...

Great pics! Gratz on the connection 👍 Maybe love is in the air now that Spring is around the corner

Yes L4 should be the instar. A freshly hatched mantis would be L1, so as @MantisGirl13 said, this means your mantis has molted 3 times before. A month apart sound like your mantis would be due for a molt soon. Ghosts molt every 3-4 weeks until they get to around L6 and it starts to slow down and...

Welcome!  Canada has it tougher than the US in terms of finding mantids, but as @hysteresis mentioned, there are some people here from the great North. It is also possible to get international sellers to ship to Canada, if you ask around you may find some. It would probably be a good thing to...