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I used to live there, but haven't been back since the late 90's. I used to LOVE walking Central Park in the day, and the Upper East side at night or early morning. It's surreal. You can see the pavement cleaning guys clean the cement all around the sleeping homeless guy, without waking him...

Sorry. I missed the Transformer craze. I fazed out right after Micronauts® (which were AWE-SOME!) Good luck!

That's probably the most economical way I can imagine right now to approach an Idolo enclosure (kudos). You could probably even sit it in a tin pan with about 1/8" of water, for goodness sake! For that matter, use the whole net cage as the lid for your heated aquarium. And because I'm still...

Take a breeze through the thread titled: Too Hot For Creos? http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=20845&hl=&fromsearch=1 A lot of good contributions on the subject of Creos.

Again, +1 All my stuff is non-organic. Mold/Mildew can still be an issue, but is easily removed. You next investment should be in a quality nozzle for your garden hose... Makes cleaning a lot easier.

I used the thin BioVines on an earlier version. I also bought, but put into use, a can of PlastiDip, The idea was to use coat hangers made into a perfect shape, then dip/spray them with the rubbery material. Then I realized I could just use any grill like structure I could find to the same...

Ha! What'ya mean, "getting"...? :-) This from the sweet, midwestern lady with an industrial "Bugatorium" in her house!?! You KNOW you're a reality TV show just waiting to happen!!! (BTW, I miss your avatar with your big smiling face).

+1. Except for the fly part. I actually began to appreciate the flies clustering at the top. They were less annoying to the mantids, and when I sprayed the top, they all fluttered away to their imminent demise. :-) And, as long as you have reasonably soft substrate, you can probably ditch...

They are custom built for a pet shop down the road from me. A stock item, now. They run about $80 new. And, yeah - the sliding (and removable) doors are awesome! To do it over again, I'd put a false bottom, and maybe a wide gauge screen on the bottom as well. My metal cages have that, and...

And, man-o-man do I appreciate my little shop vac! Vroom-Vroom and the bottom's clean of waste. I kid you not, right now my office sounds like one of those rain makers... could can hear their colossal frass hitting the bottom every 2 seconds. In between, you can hear what sounds like tiny...

I think I had something like ten or more L4's (or around there) is my enclosure (below). Pay no attention to that numbers on the tape. After that, I'd try to keep it to about 5 or 6. By adult, maybe less. You can see, they take up a lot of room, but are very tolerant of each other - maybe...

Yeah, mine always cleaned themselves after being sprays, but I was never sure how much really got ingested. I suspect properly feeding/watering the flies (or whatever prey) was even more important. I always "felt good" when they'd eat a juicy moth or katydid in addition to the flies. Soooo...

The Giant Leopards (Hypercompe scribonia) is a gorgeous moth. I just had the Regalis a few months ago. They took FOREVER to eclose! Like 6 months! Crazy!

It's a moving target for me, but tends to be much more mellow than you fellers, and not as glamorous. Here's the latest: Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo. "Nostalgia" featured in the BBC Series "Wallander".

Ah, the joy of new discoveries! My first cat of the year has begun spinning! So, amazing!

Yup! What he said. I'm all about the communal living, and am very willing to accept losses, if they occur (although, of course, I'd prefer to prevent them). I've heard a few report recently of "friendly fire" incidents, but that was not my experience with very, very large numbers and plenty...

I've seen videos of wasps just destroying large® mantids. They are brutal. When I do feed them any bees, I do the freezing thing first, so there's no fight in them ("Tore the mickey out of them" as my friend would say).

That's what I hear. I'm not that scholarly about the hobby, so I was hoping someone here had stumbled upon something to backup my suspicions.

So, I've heard and read from a number of sources that mantids just have the one "ear", that is designed (evolved) to detect the echo location of bats. Do we know if it can detect other things? I am almost positive they react to the fluttering of wings, before they can see them. Has anyone...

I've used them on occassion (I'm personally kinds freaked out by their face). I either drown or near-freeze them first. Then tweezer feed them by the wings.