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Hmm. Seems sort of strange to advertise them as feeders when you need a sealed laboratory where you freeze all the garbage and some sort of research permit to purchase them.

Qualified for what? 

Rainbow mealworms doesn't seem to, but it should appear that the incredibly seedy and poorly reviewed site Backwater Reptiles is offering a few walking stick species in their feeder section, as well as Phyllium and Exastoma in the pet insect section...

These guys (like most predatory true bugs) can handle prey much larger than themselves. They also don't seem to care if it's dead or alive from what I've read.

Posting a picture of her would be helpful. Never heard about the potential danger of static electricity. Maybe wet and dry your hands before handling her to thwart it? (btw, if your home is dry enough that you experience static shocks very frequently, make sure you mist your mantids enough!)

I've kept two of these, or a very similar species. A lot smaller than that one though- probably has to do with the size of the spiders they ate as larvae.

Giant leopard moths are a very easy species, they eat just about anything.

I keep a couple of these in a small setup in my basement. When the weather warms up I recommend setting termite traps or starting a termite culture, they're by far the best food for plethodontids (and most small insectivorous creatures for that matter.)

I thought this topic said "Aphids OK to ship?" and was going to answer that they almost certainly aren't.

There's me.

They also like cooked pasta. Seen them swarming over spilled noodles before.

Also bramble. Bramble stays green all winter when it grows in a sheltered location. (You can also take a large, transparent bin or other container and put it on top of a bramble patch to form a sort of mini- greenhouse.)

Hah, 4-10 years is nothing. Tarantulas can live close to 50 years.

Yikes that's even worse. Especially if they're Compsilura concinnata.

Unfortunately that's a male. Females are more heavy bodied.

Don't be too surprised if it turns into a brood of parasitic wasps instead of a moth... That's the sad reality of large caterpillars like this.

I wouldn't say hard shelled prey is near impossible for mantids to eat, mine have always been fond of ladybugs and japanese beetles. Though I imagine it might not be a good idea to feed them to adult mantids too frequently, in case it causes their mandibles to wear down and makes eating more...

Chinese mantids and probably others eat ladybugs with impunity but probably better not to risk it with different species.

Also, ants wouldn't make a good feeder culture. The colony won't grow as fast as you might think (since there's only one reproducing ant, it will never increase exponentially) and ants can be damn near impossible to contain.

There may very well be. How long have you looked?