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Looks like a female to me!

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Wow, amazing artwork! I did not create a mantis-themed pumpkin carving so I guess that's why my mantis decided to oothecae up my house. (An escaped Golden hierodula laid an ooth on my curtain. :P )

Recently I went on vacation, which I thought I'd never get to do ever since I started raising mantids two years ago. I couldn't stay mantis-less for a week so I brought along my little ghost girl. To the Southwest I went! (I spent a good part of my childhood there and even though I've been...

With thin-walled ooths, you can hold them against a light and see if there are eyeballs. However this only works with certain species like creos, orchids and gongy's, and the eyeballs are only visible about 1 week or so before they hatch. Here is a thread I posted...

The spot is eye rub, and it doesn't seem to affect mantises. Some of my large adults, like Hierodulas and Rhombodera's, have it. Nothing to worry about. I've noticed that if there's too much frass in the bottom of the container, and if I spray the mantis a little too rigorously, the water pools...

Sorry to hear that. The slimy liquid doesn't sound good, it most likely sounds like some sort of infection. I've never had it happen to me before, I mean, I have had mantises vomit black/brown liquid and die shortly after. Might be something different. However, I do remember seeing a post from...

Could be getting old. As mantises age, wear and tear takes a toll on their bodies and they may begin losing feet and legs. I've had older females that had quite large abdomens but ended up being too weak to lay ooths again. But I don't mean to be too pessimistic, maybe yours can still hang on...

Sorry for your loss, may she rest in peace. Today one of my adult females passed away as well. How old was the female? I mean, for how long has she been adult? I don't know if the mantis had the brown discoloration when she was alive, or if it's simply the beginning of decomposition after the...

Well, even if mantises somehow get loose here in Virginia, they're going to all die out because the winters here are pretty cold and brutal at times and I only have tropical species. If a tornado or hurricane ripped apart my home, the last thing I'd be worrying about is my mantises. If I did...

Edit: SOLD I have an extra H. membranecea pair (L4/5). Male + Female. $12 for the pair Plus $10 for priority shipping, $30 for express shipping LAG included with all orders. Cannot ship outside the USA and to areas that are too cold.

Depends on how much time you have to spend on monitoring their breeding sessions. Monitoring means that you have to give your utmost attention. If your smartphone distracts you and in that split second, something could go terribly wrong. In the past, I always placed the male a couple inches...

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I've seen it before. When an eye gets severely damaged during molting (usually, due to "stuck" skin), the entire eye collapses and turns into a shriveled mess. It's really sad and horrifying. I had it happen during winter, when the heat was running on full blast and the humidity in my room was...

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Start off with ghosts. I got 10 plus extras from Davedood and they end up averaging only 3-4 bucks each. I got them as L2s, so if you plan to get L2s, be sure to have a fruit fly culture ready. Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila hydei work well. Hierodula's are also good beginner mantises...

I've never seen so much hair on a mantis. :o I did notice fuzziness in some previous macro shots of mantis nymphs, but those were really close-up shots.

I agree, I'd put him in the freezer so he can die peacefully. Or if you have the guts to do it, place him on the female and see if he will mate. Once I caught a female in the process of eating the male -- by the time I removed the male from the female's grasp, he had already lost his head. I...

For the record, today it hatched 1 more nymph, for a total of 2 nymphs. :mellow:

I've been candling my Gongylus ooth in order to track the development of eyeballs, body segments, and legs. I see at least 10 nicely developed embryos inside the ooth, but today, only 1 nymph hatched. Strangely, the lone nymph emerged in the afternoon, while my previous ooths, of various...