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NCMantis, where are you in North Carolina? I am in Wake Forest, NC, north of Raleigh.

You might want to try returning the ootheca if you can get your money back for it. It is possible that it is a dead ootheca and the seller doesn't guarantee ooths to hatch. It could even be a dead fertile ootheca, and so you wouldn't be able to tell whether it was already dead when you...

I take that back. I am not sure I would be able to tell if a Ghost mantis ootheca was okay or not. Infertile oothecas can be unusual in shape, but I do not know if that is the case with Ghost mantises. The ootheca on the bottom of the photo looks a bit lumpy. But the one on top of the photo...

Hello. Is it in your policy to send refund both for shipping and item if when the wrong item is sent?

It helps to keep them calm. The exelsior helps keep the hatchlings from feeling exposed and start wandering around in their container when they don't have any exelsior.

They look okay from what I can tell. It is two Ghost mantis oothecas stuck together.

Welcome. I am also from North Carolina. Those are two Ghost mantis oothecas.

I forgot to give a link to his FaceBook. Here: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.roush.33

I kept the females at a constant temperature of about 82F. I have had P. wahlbergii nymphs mis-molt consistently every time the temperature would jump up about 10F in a day. So I made sure to not have the temperature get any warmer than what the Orchid mantis females were used to when they...

No, that is okay. I didn't know that feeding little to slow the males down would be bad for their health. I appreciate the warning. I actually am just starting to feed the males more regularly now because I have the females maturing faster than I expected at higher temperature and plenty of...

Yes. I have given them Blue bottle flies a few times and they take those. But I have plenty of D. hydei so I am using those. And with the males it could be better to feed regularly D. hydei when trying to slow them down in growth because it will not fill them up too quickly feeding smaller D...

I just had a female L4 Orchid mantis nymph molt to L5 without any misting or drink since she turned L4. I have had two other female L4 nymphs molt without any water until the day before molting to L5. I knew they were getting close to molting because they refused food to eat. I have been...

I recently got some tarantulas from Jeff Roush in a trade. I sent him Spiny flower mantis nymphs and Texas unicorn mantis nymphs for an Orange baboon tarantula, Brazilian blue tarantula, and a Mexican Red Rump tarantula. They all arrived alive and well. This is my first time raising...

I did a trade several weeks ago with Cometmoth. I got Hierodula venosa from him. H. venosa can be yellow or even blue in color. I also got a Tailless whip spider from him. I look forward to doing more trades with Cometmoth in the future!

I did a trade with Fatalmantis not too long ago. I got some H. majuscula from her. H. majuscula is a colorful species that I have been looking for. I was excited to be able to raise these. Thank you Fatalmantis!

I did a trade with Fatalmantis not too long ago. I got some H. majuscula from her . H. majuscula is a colorful species that I have been looking for. I was excited to be able to raise these. Thank you Fatalmantis! I hope this is the same user as Fatalmantis...

I have Texas unicorn mantis nymphs if you are interested in that species.

That is cool.

Hello. I am sorry for you loss. So was Joe a believer in Christ?

Wow, this is great. I have been wanting to know how to tell the Creobroter species apart.