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One of my adult orchids have been acting strange for the past few weeks. At first I noticed she doesn’t finish flies and left scattered fly abdomens all along the bottom of the tanks. Normally she would take flies when I hold them next to her mouth, but stating a week or 2 ago she doesn’t...

I’m gonna let her be for tonight, and tmr I’ll head to grab her some pop sickle sticks. If she still don’t lay, I’ve been eyeing down a cool plant, might just buy it and leave here to wander on it for a bit.

Is this anything significant? Or just my wishful thinking?

Update again: “peeled” off the Male while lady is eating, she isn’t freak out even though I am prodding around with my fingers and a stick. After ~30 seconds, she has her abdomen pointed down towards the stick, seems like something interesting might happen, I’m afraid of even zipping up her...

Week 2, I don’t observe any connections anymore, the Male is still obsessively drumming, but she seems to ignore him (at least when I’m looking they aren’t connecting anymore). Probably gonna help the little man off the back tomorrow, sounds like a plan? this is the set up I have changed her...

It’s been more than a week, he’s be constantly going at it, I’m sure out of all those attempts atleast 1 is successful. I’ve noticed the last segment of the females abdomen is getting more yellow, could it be an indication of anything?  Also if she is actually fertilised, what do I need to...

She was laying on her bad yesterday and can’t make it...  I hate to be a downer, but thank goodness her sister molted to adulthood with not issues just today!

It’s fine~ Loses happen, just feeling a little bit bummed out. I just wish I knew what caused it and if it’s something on me and some husbandry that I could have done better for this to be preventable.

Well... too late, she laying on the floor, seemingly on her last breath... bummer ;(

The joints, tips of reportorial limbs and face had brown spots appear suddenly last week. I think it's just a premolt sign, but still wanna point it out it's something significant She had also at one point gotten sick from bad food, when it just molted into sub adult, and it was nursed back to...

Was it also exhibiting the symptoms mine has? Mine is weak and limp, it wasn't even walking with its hind legs, and instead dragging its body with its front limbs.

It's a sub adult, it molted in 19th February, and its eaten since last week.

I got a banded flower mantis that was in pre-molt for a whole week now, few days ago it keep acting like its about to molt, but it still hasn't. It's been acting weak with its hind legs hanging down and walking with only its front legs. I hear that they can get stuck in their old molt if they...

What does the female’s calling behaviour look like? edit: btw, thanks for all the info! It’s a lot of help!

The time has come, to finally attempt to pair my Orchid mantises~ So... we're off to a clumsy start, I placed the male on, and he's just dangling there still trying to understand the situation at first... Eventually, he got a decent foothold, and he started drumming on her wings, which is a...

Hi! I am looking for Hestiasula (L5 or beyond) females (For sell or for trade), I got 2 Hestiasula males around L4-L5 that I can trade. PM me if you have any! I also want a picture of it to see if we got the same species` Located in USA WA

Dead plant right now😅 Gonna use it maybe for mantises in the future.

I have one of these, the top panels are very easy to slide off! If you wanna try to get more ventilation just take one panel out and replace it with a net mesh and you should good~ I've yet to use mine, cause it needs quite a bit of modification (and I'm lazy :P )

There are a few things you can look at to tell if its in pre-molt: If they have wing buds, then the wing buds appear to be thicker during pre-molt period. They  lose apatite. Their abdomen also will appear to be decently plump even though it didn't eat for a few days. If it fits some of...

You track feeding as well?😂 that’s a lot of work, for tarantulas it’s understandable, they don’t eat that often, but mantises?  Maybe sperate our the data on another sheet? That way the data will be less clumped~