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Just make sure no lemon juice or garlic is an ingredient, find the plain flavor I think it's stage 2 brand Beech Nut. I put the baby food in a cup with a dab of water so it's like a smoothie texture, and then smear it on the mouth with a toothpick. Give the mantis water after so the baby food...

How do you get over being single your whole life, bring home some roaches to keep :)

Does anyone feed their mantids chicken or beef baby food? They are high in protein, and especially for pregnant females really give a nutrition boost to produce larger ootheca. I've also used it for feeding weaker or injured nymphs that weren't catching as much prey as needed, the extra protein...

Has anyone selective bred multiple generations of mantids to get a certain trait to show up? Roaches are kind of related to mantids, and hissing roaches have been bred to have larger than average sizes and color morphs. Let's take the chinese mantis as they are easy to breed and readily...

Thanks, I live in Suffolk county. Know any places that sell the ootheca, especially tenodera angustipennis.

I know we have the chinese mantis, but that's all I've ever seen. I heard a rumor carolina mantids live here but ive never seen them. I wanted to order mantis ootheca that arent Chinese, I hatch them in spring/early summer and release them into my shrubs. So I was wondering what other species...

I feed my crickets carrots and its not hurt my mantid. Crickets also eat cat kibble, romaine lettuce, white bread, and apples. I get crickets that come with brown dead ones, I throw the dead crickets out, but feed off the live ones and this too never caused and issue. I saw mentioned that...

I had this with a hissing cockroach. All its siblings matured 3 months ahead, and it was alive but growing very slow. It ended up maturing 3 months late and had deformities in exoskeleton so bad it lived a week and died naturally.

On the website breeders of all sorts of insects send out stock to adopters, a list of species that are available are on the site, you register for free to see the list and to get stock or send to others if you choose. They have a few mantis species. http://www.argiope.se/test/

My mantis stops when she's full.

I have a chinese mantis that lays one ootheca a week! She eats every day. If mantids are like roaches as long as they mated once all will be fertile. I had a hissing cockroach mate once and be fertile for 3 years without mating again. Broods were smaller as time went on but each time she was...

Make sure to offer Mom food and mist with water right away, they get VERY thirsty right after laying and hungry!

Thanks!

Here it is.

Not dead just cold so it's barely moving. My mantis has to have it moving slowly that way it gets defensive.

I found an ootheca outside in my shrubs. It's dark brown almost black and looks dirty, I'm not sure if it's old or laid this year? All "new" ootheca I see are light brown, but if this was laid it is 4 months old and perhaps wind and rain dirtied it?

I fed my spotted salamander larva live blackworms, frozen bloodworms/daphnia/oxheart, and if I found it tiny earthworms. These salamanders are pigs the adults can get too obese from eating too much! Be warned they live 25+ years and burrow under soil for most of their lives.

I heard captive bred have yellow bellies as the red belly is from diet in the wild.

That's awesome, you got talent!