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I tried that but he hits it away with his front legs, puts up his defensive pose with the wings and turns back his head. He really doesn't want live food, I just hope he knows what he's doing, since I have no clue.

I was just able to feed him banana which he seemed to like, but with insects still no succes. I try bringing the fly close to him but they just start flapping and wriggling and then he's scared off. 

oh he sees, everytime I walk to the cage, he turns his head, he's still very active and walks around a lot but doesn't seem interested in eating. The female molted 2 days ago and he's constantly watching her aswell. But I don't think she's ready to mate yet

he's still living after 2 weeks of not eating, I don't know how he's doing it but he's still alive. My female died after like 8 days of not eating but this one is still not dead. I tried giving it other insects but he keeps refusing everything.

Last day he was walking around the whole time, also looking a lot at the female, sadly she isn't mature yet so they can' mate yet. But as it seems of now I think he will just be dead by the end of the week. He refuses anything given, today I tried offering him some banana, normally they keep...

It's been 1.5 week since his last molt and he still hasn't eaten a thing, I'm really getting concerned now. He is like walking around the cage all the time (I think trying to find a female to mate with) and whenever a prey comes by he stopt and starts wiggling but he just leaves it alone after...

it's the ghost mantis species, normally they eat plenty and both males and females are really well fed and have a thick abdomen, but the male's is now just flat for a week...

there's only bottleflies, I don't use crickets and oh okay, it's just that I had a female refusing to eat aswell a week or 3 ago and she actually starved herself to death. I tried to offer her food everyday and one day I just came back from school and she was laying on the bottom of the...

I got a big enclosure with 2 mantids in it, the flies are just walking around there all the time. I put about 5 new flies in after 3 days or something, but he just doesn't seem to wanna eat :P

Hello again I have a little problem with my male mantis who just turned into an adult. Since his molt a few days back he is still not eating, I've had this before but mostly they start eating after about 2 or 3 days after the molt. But this one is molted like 6 or 7 days ago. There are lots of...

1 of the females has molted, I thought they were adults now, but I don't see any wings. It's only been 2 weeks since their last molt this is so weird...

Not really potted plants :P  I found interest in not only keeping the mantids but also building the whole place and haha I'm still a student so no wife to scream at me xDD

oh okay, well that surely relaxes me a bit to hear that ;)  and I don't really feed them, there are just like about 10 flies running around in the place and they just catch them whenever they seem hungry :P  

So my ghosts only went from L4 to L5 like 3 weeks ago and tonight 2 of them already molted again and are now L6's.. I read it usually takes about 5 weeks at least, so is this behavior normal? I keep them in a large terrarium where they can move around a lot with humidity about 70-80% and a...

looks like she's better now, don't really know what got into her, I also noticed that she doesn't hold her arms together like other mantids, but there's like 3-4 mm between them she's like spreading her arms all the time which is kinda weird :P

I've also heard from some folks that they like to eat raw meat from a toothpick

hm well I'll make sure to observe her behavior to know exactly what the symptoms are so if she dies I can provide help to anyone else :)

anyone?

So I have 3 ghost mantids and 1 of them, a female, is behaving quite strange the last 2 days. She looks like she's drunk, walking around in a weird way other than usual and sometimes she's hitting the ground with her head. I noticed she's holding like 1 of her arms close to her body like it's...

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