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I have one sub adult female H. Major getting ready to molt here soon. I need any males that I can get my hands on. Thanks! located in OH

Amazing how you can get those pictures with a IPhone! Amazing mantis you got!

I find that personally violins do great in a net cage setup. Kept them 90 and sprayed daily.

Well you can only count the segments from the underside. And you have to be sure to count the ones that are completely underneath the abdomen.  Once a mantis reaches its final molt they will get wings and for the wings to sit right, their abdomen must as well.

Well if they have 6 then they might be females. I wasn’t able to see and count all the segments from the pics.. I was just looking at the end segments.

Hm for some reason these are difficult for me. Pretty sure thing 2 is a male. Thing 1 is harder to tell but still looks like a male to me. Hopefully some other peeps can chime in for ya.

Hm I’ve never seen this happen but my guess is that it is sick. I’m not trying to be morbid but I would prepare yourself for it not making it. Try hand feeding some honey and maybe flies if it is feeling it.

Yep the underside of the abdomen. Emphasis on the end of the it

They should be easily sexable right now. If you want to post pics I could let you know what they are.

I love their coloration! My L5 female is a orangish purple... this species is so pretty! As the others said yours should be L5 if you got them at L2. Best of luck with them!

Your ooth is fine in the mail. Just remember... there are ooths of that species outside right now in the freezing weather! When it gets there just stick it in the fridge till spring. Just be sure to give it a spray once a week.

I’d recommend to get BB flies ASAP. They are much bigger therefore you are able to feed less often. The pupae can survive really low temps so you most likely won’t even need a heat pack if you ship them. And you don’t reallt have to deal with moving food because you can just put pupae in the...

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Welcome. Seems like you already know a lot about mantis!

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Hard to say. Things like this happen occasionally with even the best hobbiests. That’s the one thing with this hobby that I hate... there are a lot of mysteries. When something goes wrong a lot of the times I don’t know what I did wrong. Which sucks cause I don’t want to make the same mistake...

Hmm sorry to hear about the complications. Not sure what the bubble is... could be insect blood(blanking on the scientific name), some type of wing fluid, maybe just a bubble with no fluid. I would leave him for a while and see what happens. Nature has her thing for working stuff out: for the...

@Vitor sorry for not getting back to you... I didn’t see your response. Not sure why I had aggression to be honest. It was a while back so I don’t remember much. I was probably just more paranoid then anything. Just be sure to feed often!

Wow they are absolute beauties! I have gotta try this species sometime. Good luck with breeding!  Happy New Year!