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That means next to nothing, you will meet plenty of idiots with degrees in the course of your life.

Best of luck!

I guess it is a miracle that this Ghost survived after eating a wild lacewing... I can't imagine the horrors that the wild moths they ate must have carried in, surely they are doomed to fall dead at any moment. :yawn:

Counted 157 from this hatch so there should be a few available soon.

Statilia nemoralis

I like to keep them in ff cups with lots of friends to make sure they don't get lonely.

Ladybugs do produce a foul smelling, mildly toxic oil when attacked but if your mantids powered through the stink and ate them I doubt it will do them any harm. Predators usually spit them out quickly if they are bothered by it.

Now kill it with fire. Thrips are a major pain, though not as bad as scale.

Congrats, glad to see he figured it out.

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There is plenty of room for improvement, I am planning to utilize naturalistic enclosures for my collection once I settle on a design. Bare cups and paper towels do not do justice to the incredible forms of mimicry and camouflage that have evolved among mantid species.

I am currently using a custom screen cage from Bug Trader for my ghosts and cups for nymphs. We are also working on several new caging designs.

I don't have photoshop.

Looks normal to me.

Aquarium safe silicone.

Have you observed any of those symptoms in mantids housed in plastic enclosures? Do you even know what plastics, if any use trichloroethane in their manufacturing process and how much, if any, remains in the finished product? Does the EPA, FDA, or any other relevant government agency allow...

Did you even read the articles you posted, or just skim the titles? The compounds of concern in plastics are estrogen-like substances such as BPA. We still on the same page here? Next point, estrogen is absent in the vast majority of insects, and in the few that seem to produce estrogen or...

Be sure to feed her some more, she'll be hungry again in an hour...

I raised one a few years back. I was out for a walk one day and a tiny nymph (maybe L2) landed on me. I kept it in a 12x12x12 Exo, fed crickets, and sprayed daily. It grew into a big female which I turned loose to breed after reaching maturity. If mine was a typical specimen then they are pretty...