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All I can say is good luck with your new addiction and welcome into the den of addicts :P I remember when I googled a picture of an orchid mantis somehow, and have been hopelessly hooked every since hehe. I also remember taking my pet mantis to the pet store once. A bearded dragon saw her...

Didn't see this until now, but welcome : )

I've been using the term "unsynchronized hatching" since oothecas that hatch at once are known for synchronized hatching. The M. caffra I got from you do so as well :P

They do it whenever/wherever, though they might be more prone to it during the morning (I wouldn't know since I'm never awake in those hours >.>). But yeah, there's no sound and they don't move at all. You'll definitely recognize it when you see it for the first time though, there's no...

The adult photo isn't loading for me for some odd reason :( I really need to get a good camera, been saving forever but stuff keeps getting in the way ha! Your pictures look amazing as always : )

The stuck shed shouldn't be too much of a bother from what it sounds like. If needed you could always tug a little harder (I've never seen a fused molt/exoskeleton though I guess it very rarely could happen) or you could trim her antennae if it looks like they are really in the way. Either way...

I just use a regular light bulb, it doesn't necessarily need to be a heat lamp bulb. All bulbs heat up when you leave them on :P Unless of course you want to leave it on overnight, you could get one of the black shaded bulbs for that. As long as you don't use a very high wattage bulb, there...

Just curious, your profile says you're from australia. Are these guys native to where you live? If so you won't need external heating for them. A colder temperature during the night is natural, and they will be used to that. All my mantises (except for a couple species that come from real hot...

If you have enough to take chances with, there's a good chance they won't eat each other if you keep them well fed. If you don't have enough to take chances with, then keep the females separate. I have all my females housed separately and all the males together, no problems so far. You have to...

Where on the head is the molt still attached? Also, is her thorax deformed? Usually when the molt gets stuck at the head, their thorax will bend. Mantises that have deformed thoraxes will not eat and cannot recover from it. You can gently tug on the molt to see if it'll come off in one piece...

Did the frazzled wings look like new wings that haven't been extended yet? Some mantises become so close to their adult molt that their wings literally blow out their backs, I've seen it several times with individuals and it looks like they already molted since their wings are out but their...

As far as I know, liquid honey doesn't go bad. The powder will turn sticky when it's exposed to any type of humidity since it's trying to turn back into liquid honey. Most powdered honey is literally sugar + low percent honey. I store my bee pollen powder in a plastic jar in the refrigerator. My...

Have the following for sale~ (US Only) PM me for more information, combined shipping prices, and group deals. I can reserve for 30 days for a 20% nonrefundable deposit only, no exceptions. Creobroter sp. (Indian Flower Mantis) L2 Unsexed nymphs for $3 each or 10 for $25 Deroplatys lobata...

Carrots are fine as gut-load. I use carrots for all my roaches and crickets, and my mantis collection is still up and well. Myths like that arise when one or two people wrongly correlate the death of one of their mantises to something like carrots. Their mantises may have passed away from all...

Received a package. Packaging was excellent and everyone was alive and happy even though it looked like the mailman punched the box or something. You've got to know it's awesome packaging when it survives the mad mailman : ) Thanks again!

Some native species are illegal to be kept as pets to prevent people from catching and keeping wild individuals. Just generally though, most pet store owners don't know any specifics about laws and regulations. I work on a lot of different breeding projects and for example, I've heard like ten...

Honestly speaking, if you put it in your checked luggage, no one is going to notice. It's not like dead leaf mantises bounce and yowl and scream, they kind of just sit there and don't move. They won't have a heat signature either and neither will they look like anything suspicious in an X-ray...

I would........ put that thing as far as possible from my house x.x Having a gazillion wasps hatch in your house might not be the most pleasant thing in the world lol.

Just an update. The ooths that I almost never misted hatched out fine, I never went through with the soaking either. Papilio if you only got three nymphs out of your ooth you should wait a little longer to see if more come out. If not, break the ooth and see if the eggs were unfertile or if they...

I would totally keep it in my indoor garden :3