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That's nice you got a photo of the ooth being laid. Very cool. Hope to catch that with mine. I was in North Dakota for a week and came home to find two ooths laid by one female in a week and none by the other that I left home. I brought my third female with along with a male with me on the...

Another great series! I love that straight on pose.

Welcome to the forum and hobby! I've been keeping ghost mantids for almost five years. It's always fun to see what colors you end up with as adults. I've never kept communal nymphs in that large of an enclosure. Please keep us posted on how they do. I feed my L2 Hydeis. Good luck!

Welcome from Minnesota

I kept pink katydids for a while. Unfortunately the eggs never hatched. I saw mine mating several times, but I couldn't initially find any eggs. I got up in the middle of the night and discovered the female was depositing the eggs in the terrarium foam back. I had to dig them out with a knife...

Welcome Diego

Congratulations on the orchid ooth hatch...

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see more photos.

Very nice Michael. I especially love those close-ups. Amazing detail and color.

Congratulations! Hope you get lots of fertile ooths.

You can keep them in the refrigerator for a while. Otherwise, I'm sure you can keep them alive with dog or cat food.

If they hatched in transit, then they must have shipped you some pupae that wasn't fresh. Heat and humidity can speed up the process...perhaps by a day or two. I've been in the hobby for almost five years now. I've never had an order of spikes that hatched in transit...even a priority shipping...

Welcome. I was in Albuquerque for the balloon fiesta in 2012. I looked all over for mantids when I was there, but the only ones that I found were by the parking lot lights at the fiesta. It was still fun to find some as I never find any in Minnesota.

Well, for six months, I was only keeping two species of mantids due to some family things. So, I wasn't motivated to photograph the species I had. One of them is a species that I've been keeping for over four years. Yes, I do leave my set up sit for too long, but part of the reason why is that...

Photographed a couple of mantids for the first time in 2015. I added an L1 Hestiasula major above. (See the third post of this thread.) These little guys are so cute! I can't wait to try again when they get a little bigger.

Very nice series! Your double shields are so colorful. One of my males molted to an adult last week.

Wow! Those turned out great. She posed better for you. Oh, she got her wings yesterday.

Welcome Aaron. Where in Wisconsin? Tammy

http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=21061&hl=consolidated You may want to scroll through this thread. Lots of input from breeders who had success with Idolos. Some of the breeders are no longer active.

I ordered some mantids from Dave this past week. All arrived in good condition. Nice packing. Fast shipping. Thank you!