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Well, that's odd. A mantis usually looses it's legs if it meets a predator or mismolts. The leg just.. disappeared? What did you feed it?

It might of mismolted.. did you see an exoskeleton in the container?

Hierodulas are very cool and fun to watch mantids. They usually get about 4 inches in length, and eat almost anything they can kill. Including their mates.. > :D

curled up abdomen, may be a large species. congrats, i hope geoffrey makes it to adulthood!

Congrats! He looks cute. I thought if a mantis molts, it regrows ALL lost limbs. guess it will take time! He will survive.

you have a point, it is outrageously hot here sometimes. I'll think about it.

So wait- I tell you my address and you simply ship them here? Or do I pay shipping? Oh and are they L4 now?

He eats well and doesn't fall off of his perches, and is quite territorial.

When he was molting he kind of fell and hit a leaf with his underdeveloped wing, so they're kind of screwed up to a somewhat noticeable point, and one of his legs looks weird. He also seems to be incapable of flight.

I've read somewhere that Iris have an orangeish spot under their abdomen, this mantis doesn't.. and the head's shaped differently.

I have found another outside. It's like two or three molts older then the first pic. Here it is.

I haven't hatched yet :P

I guess the first two did already have something go to them first. At least you have the Chinese egg :D

I hope it is, its either a iris or stag

Knowing my two Heridulas, My adult male, being the jerk he is, decided to be a meanie toward nymphs that somehow got in his cage. Two iris nymphs were in the hands of him, and he ate them like french fries. I feel dumb because I don't know how they got in there.

Free?

Yeah It was grooming itself. I will try to take a better pic, the little guy is just so dang small!

It's unusually aggressive compared to the other mantids I catch in my area, and I think it may be female?

How are they doing to this day?