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Well, actually she can't really eating solid food... You can't tell in the video because of her arm in front of it, but her right mandible is completely useless. It takes her twice as long to eat a gob of roach guts than an uninjured mantis. Although I have stopped giving her milk, because she...

Here's a video I took of her today. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k4JpbiX5iX4

"Of course, long before you mature, most of you will be eaten."

It would work great with europeans and carolinas.

Hey, this isn't "mantis where's waldo!" This is just "find the mantises." To do mantis where's waldo, you need a couple hundred hatchling mantises. Then you add a single 1st instar of a similar looking species and try to find it.

There is one thing you'll probably want to be aware of. You know how crickets are a bit carnivorous and can be dangerous if the mantis doesn't eat them fast enough? When cricket paralysis virus struck and disrupted the house cricket industry, they started selling virus- resistant "super...

Also he black stuff that used to be clogging her mouth is totally gone, there's no trace of it. It's just one of her mandibles that's been bent to one side so she can't cut and chew.

Oh, she's great! She had two halved roaches (which she grabs by herself after a while now) and some milk. She's become much tamer than all the other mantises, she barely moves when I take her out to feed her.

It would be a shame for you to feed them to your mantids... They grow so slow and some people really like them. I'd have to disagree that the leaves can be of any type... You definitely don't want to use laurel leaves, for example.

I'm reall hoping that milk has enough nutrition for her to actually grow... I'm worried that it might be too fatty and not have the right nutrients, so I'm also going to give her mashed roaches so she gets what milk might be missing.

I think the oothecas are infertile. It doesn't say anything about Pray mating.

I fed her some milk- it's really easy to do with an eyedropper. Also I sexed her as female. Funny thing is, I read the thread with the milk before but I just didn't remember it... Probably because I didn't have any mantises with messed up mouthparts then.

Oh perfect! I'll definitely have to try both the thumbtack and milk.

I tried to feed him some roach guts. I wouldn't really call it a success, mostly he just nibbled at it for a second or two, brushed it away with his arms and then nibbled the juice on his arms. He definitely ate at least a tiny bit but didn't get much of a meal... It would probably be easier if...

Earlier today: http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/salmonsaladsandwic/media/image.jpg2_zpskgh0lprw.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 Just now: http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/salmonsaladsandwic/media/image.jpg1_zpsx8ykzlkt.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2 Compare those to the picture from yesterday, he looks...

Update: even though I didn't have a chance to give it honey until now, dark fluid in its neck seems to have reduced and migrated up closer to the mantis's head. I just gave it some honey mixed with water. This morning I tried feeding it a small, soft katydid nymph to see if he could eat solid...

I managed to remove the stuff on the outside with water, but unfortunately it's also on the inside of his mouth and it hasn't come out. I can get it honey tommorow.

Last night a Chinese molted to l7. I noticed soon after it finished that it was starting to vomit something black out of it's mouth. It also had some ominous dark sections in the "neck" area of his thorax, which I assumed was the stuff it was throwing up. The drop of black stuff solidified in...

Zelus Longipes or a similar Zelus species. It's a type of assassin bug that mimics toxic milkweed bugs. They make good pets and are similar in care to mantises.

Tapeworms are more or less exclusively parasites of vertebrates. According to the diagram I posted a link to above mantises get horsehair worms from eating mayflies.^