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ONE OF MY NYMPHS HAS ESCAPED! Where would be the places I should look! I really care about this mantis and I don't want to let him stay lost!

If your looking for a more exotic (but still easy to keep) species, try a ghost mantis ;)  oh and welcome to the forum!

Thank you! It was pretty early in pre subadulthood so he will have a tiny trex leg next melt.  :lol:

My presub hierodula's middle right leg fell off and he is only left with a stump! Will he be able regenerate by adult? Is there any other risks of a missing leg besides just hanging onto things? And also we he be able to molt correctly

I definantly would have fell for the joke if if wasn't April fools day!

the abdomen  won't just pop all on its own, she would have to fall off a high place for that t ever be a possibility. It is normal for mantises to get that fat. My sphodromantis was even fatter then that when I had her! :blink:

try a sphodromantis :lol:  they may not be as long, but they are very bulky

Welcome! What's your favorite species of all the mantises you have owned?

Good to hear! :lol:   when his exoskeleton is harder try hand feeding him an insect, a mantis can't survive on just honey.  :tt2:

I had a mantis that had its back legs stuck in its old skin and what I did was have the mantis try to walk away while I helped the back legs free and she or he is now a healthy L5. but I don't know if it will work for raptorial arms. If your mantids arms get free they may be unable to be used...

If you just got ten random nymphs of a common species like hierodula, how many would be male and how many would be female? 

Posts like these make me wonder how many awesome species like this go unnoticed by the hobby

Are they normally this color?

Can the size difference in male and female seen at l4?

Aren't cilnias around 3 inches?

The exact reason I love sphodromantis: big, green, and friendly :)

I really like the home page illustration :)

I also wish I had the chance to keep cilia humeralis, they seem like such a great species.

What is your favorite type of mantis? Why is it your favorite? I'm curious to see. My favorite mantis is most sphodromantis sp. (I haven't raised much species but out of them all i like the sphodromantis)

There length is 15cm sometimes over and a also don't know anything about their care.