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Welcome. I got into mantids after finding and photographing a couple in Texas back in 2010. I kept them for 7 years but my schedule at this time doesn’t allow time for me to keep them now. 

Nice photos!

Welcome. That last pic is great. I live in Minnesota and at the moment am only raising Cecropia.

Planning a trip to Colorado in August to photograph moose. 

Welcome. I kept and bred mantids for seven years but do not currently have any. I love orchids too but that was one species I was never able to breed. I had several species over the years and loved most. 

Nice! I have around 97 Cecropia cocoons to hatch. I will let a bunch of them go. 

Thank you. It’s been so long since I took that photo of that mantis. I really don’t remember.  I used to do aerial photography. I would charter a plane and hire a pilot. That was back when I worked in IT. Nowadays I mostly do wildlife photography.

My favorite thing to do is wildlife photographing. I spent a lot of time walking in the woods and sitting in a blind waiting for critters. I also enjoy traveling. I’ll be going back to some of my favorite places this year...Theodore Roosevelt National  Park, Rocky Mountain National park, and...

Hi all, It seems as if every year there is less interest for a calendar. And fewer buy them. The forum doesn’t profit from the sale of the calendars. It just didn’t seem worth the time it takes.  If there seems to be enough interest I’d be willing to try again.

Hi Sticky. I posted the guidelines for the calendar. We will put one together if there is enough interest. So if you can help generate interest it would be greatly appreciated. 

Submitting photos is a two step process. 1. Email high resolution photos to [email protected]. No watermarks, text or writing on any photographs (advertising). Include your forum username and the scientific name of the mantis in the email. 2. Upload copies of your entries here...

JettyDoor, I have Florida bark mantis that I've kept going for 1.5 years or so. At one time I had 25 species at one time and hundreds of enclosures. After the holidays I'd like to get another species or two. 

Hello. I live in Minnesota! I've been keeping mantids for seven years, but at the moment I only have one species. 

So sorry this happened. I think you've already gotten a lot of advice. I raise my own mealworms and use them as emergency food and an occasional treat for mantids that like them. I haven't had any issues with them. I did, however, lose a couple of mantids that I fed wax worms. They were ones I...

Thanks for letting us know Yen. Phil was very active on the forum when I first joined, and I got two of my favorite species of mantids from him. We became friends but drifted apart after he left the hobby. I do miss him and his contributions. 

I received two packages from sally the past two weeks. Great packaging and communication. Thank you so much for sharing some of your mantids. I'm looking forward to photographing them.

It's nice to see someone is still keeping B. mendica. I loved that species...though now that I'm no longer keeping them, my laundry room (aka my "mantid room") isn't as hot. Ha. Ha.

I forgot to mention that I did delete some of the duplicate images. I don't know if I got them all. 

I'm wondering if they had trouble uploading them. I didn't seem them at first.  http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?/gallery/album/566-happy-mantis/ Kind of funny and scary at the same time. 

Cool you got to meet them! I just saw the commercial yesterday for the first time and now again this afternoon. The version aired here does have the praying mantis!