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I have indian walking stick eggs at $2 each or 10 or more for $1 each! Contact me if interested! Thanks, Joe

What you have there is a species of horntail from the family Siricidae. Horn tails are wasp like insects that bear a long ovipositor at the tip of its abdomen which it uses for drilling into the stems of plants or wood of dead or dying trees where the eggs are laid. they dont sting you you dont...

yes they can change slightly if provided with the color environment of your choice. Joe

lol the guy only used native mantids like chinese or european mantids, he found someway to make them live very long and grow very big. some how, whem he did his experiment, the mantids continued to molt more than usual, causing them to keep on growin and growing. Joe

i wouldnt be so worried as i've had many mantids have the same ever lasting molting period and onetime, all of my mantids periods between molts were taking 2-3 months and more. My last subadult violin mantis hasnt molted for 7 months and i dont know if it has molted to adult yet since it got...

last time i opened an ooth and saw nymphs wiggling inside, the ooth hatched the next morning! :D Joe

Have you seen or suspected any feeders u have feeding to the idolos of them eating any egg carton or any other material? i've always had mantids throwing up after eating feeders tht have been eating eggcarton, toiletpaper/papertowel tubes, screen, foam xardboard and even plastic. but now i have...

if you do open it, open a little peice from one end till u get to an egg and see if theres and formation, do not tear of the peice, but instead, if somehtings forming inside, put it back to keep moisture for the eggs in the ooth. Joe

I'm going to tiawan hopefully this october or this spring so i'll try to see what i can find :D . and i'll let you all know what i find too lol Joe

A mantis's compound eye is made up with thousands of ommatidums, all connected to the visual receptor center. Imagine a thousand telescopes attached to ur eye all facing in different directions to form a dome shape like the mantid's eye, looking like the cross section Johnald has, no matter with...

glad ur still here:D ur very lucky to be alive from tht! darn deer! lol Joe

I've almost had succes with my african mantis and european mantis mating (picture of it below), but the european was smaller than normal when i caught it, if longer, they would have connected and mated with ease, even my male chinese mantis attempted to mate with an african mantis multiple...

if i feed them crix and roaches, would that harmd their breeding cycle? Joe

Nice rick! :D i've never had a chinese ooth hatch that many chinese before! Joe

Great job! :D good luck raising them! Joe

what are these mantids called? they are awesome.. well aside from the moss mantis lol Joe

mine was european, but the first exotic i ever got was dead leaf mantids

Traded mantids with chinomathboy :D . they all came in perferct condition and excellent packaging by the way! Will definitly buy and trade more with him :D Joe

I'm just wondering if u can feed crickets and roaches to diabolica that r too big for fruit flies, since where they're from they have to eat non flying insects from time to time right? let me know what u guys think :D Joe

i've had an orchid mantis die like this:( it seemed to have been rotting from the inside out:(, mostlikely its what is was eating since if its about to throw up, but it doesnt, and the puke stays in the prothorax, it can digest the mantis from the inside out, i know this since the orchid mantis...