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Your new mantis looks very healthy and quite content eating that fruit fly.

Mantids have a digestive system that basically consists of a single tube going down the length of their body. If that was full of air then I'd say to watch your mantids when feeding to make sure they are actually eating. As stated before mantids can throw up from overeating but this isn't...

@lovemymantisfriends  I hope that goes well for you and you finally get to enjoy some new mantis friends.

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. I'm currently looking at website hosts and review software to see if can be done for free or very little money. You're right, it shouldn't be that hard for a beginner to acquire their first specimen and I hate the thought they might just give up on the hobby...

Mantisplace.com if you didn't know her site. Also, try checking these sites, they have ghosts in stock from time to time. I have bought from all these sellers and they always provide excellent service. Mantidkingdom.com  Panterrapets.com  Bugsincyberspace.com

Do you mind sharing the recipe or do you have the medium for sale on your website?  I've tried several commercially available fly mediums and a couple of simple recipes I found online and almost always had similar results, the last one I tried from Josh's Frog's also left tons of medium unused...

Glad to have helped! Even though your orchid is almost an adult she can still have trouble with the honey's stickiness, some fully grown adults even do. When they wipe their mouth on the ground like that it means the honey is getting stuck in their mandibles and they hate the way it feels, they...

Did you give her straight honey? While some adult mantises can eat honey as-is, nymphs usually can't handle the stickiness of undiluted honey. It gets stuck in their mandibles and they will kind of lurch forward and may try wiping their mouth on whatever they are standing on. I can see how that...

Interesting. It gets more transparent when you give her more fluids?

I think the difference is that you partly raised Bob and I got mine as an adult. He bit me the first day and it is taking a while to gain his trust. We're getting there though.

One really great tip I got from DeShawn. He said to use Repashy Superfly medium. It works better than any other commercially available medium, it produces more flies and they actually use up all the culture by the end of the month making it worth the money. I can see a huge difference in my...

Good to hear you are cautious with the crickets, using them to feed mantids is highly debated because of the risks but as long as you manage them properly they should be fine. 

She likely threw up because she ate too much in one sitting and it sounds like she was startled by the male or possibly something else. I don't think the two events are related but if either of these problems continue let us know. In the future if she vomits the brown liquid after eating again...

It's usually adult or near adult crickets that do this and usually only after a mantis has molted (notice I say "usually") They will nibble on the mantis while it is still soft and can't defend itself. However, it should be fine to feed a pinhead cricket to your nymph. Just to be safe remove the...

The seller comes up first (after an Amazon ad) if you google "praying mantis for sale"...this is why so many new people stumble across him. His website is professional looking and uses all sorts of little marketing tricks to help reassure people this is a good place to buy from.  I am seriously...

The fact that the discharge is getting darker is concerning. How long ago did she lay her last ooth?

You do want to be careful with sick crickets in particular, they can cause a fatal condition in mantids nicknamed "The Black Death" because it causes them to vomit a foul smelling sticky black substance and ends in death of the mantis. If you buy crickets it is important to quarantine them for a...

That looks darker and less clear than what was on mine. She had perfectly clear green goo on the side of her abdomen. May not be the same substance. 

Ghosts seem to be fine communally until adulthood. Once adults, the females are fine together and the males are fine together but the males should be separated from females because the risk of a male being eaten by a female increases substantially during mating. The males may try to mate even...

Mine had a similar substance on her abdomen after mating. I thought it was because the male didn't have the best aim but it could have been from something else. I know your female hasn't been mated yet so in your case it had to have come from her. As long as she is still acting and eating...