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I found an interesting idea on FB. The inventor refers to it as the “Anti-Male-Eating” Collar. Try to picture a little paper dog funnel around the female mantis's neck. It blocks her peripheral vision and, I suspect, makes it harder for her to reach around and snag her gentleman caller...

Acrylic might actually hold up to the heat better than glass. Heat can make glass shatter.

Do you run it underneath your enclosures? Do you string it in an 'S' pattern back and forth?

Interesting Rebecca. I though mantises were visual hunters. I do agree that they should have a day/night cycle, however. Bex, I don't know how warm Ghosts need to be. Is there another way you can provide heat with the light off? Heat tape? A heat pad? I don't think you should rely on the...

They're selling expired heat packs? That doesn't seem kosher.

To my knowledge, LED lights don't generate much heat.

Slightly unrelated question, but do the mantises also require ventilation holes? Maybe the air inside their deli cup is enough to hold them for 110 hours. Maybe you could have separate chambers inside the shipping box. One for the mantises, and one for the heat pack. Some sort of partition...

So $7 per pack for those MaxxHeat ones. Maybe that makes winter shipping feasible with plain old USPS.

Yeah. Most likely no survivors from a winter ooth hatching.

I saw an Inside Edition story the other day, about checking your Christmas tree for ooths when you bring it inside. Kinda makes me want to get a real tree this year. https://www.insideedition.com/media/videos/ohio-woman-discovers-praying-mantis-eggs-in-real-christmas-tree-84785

Are they taking the waxworms? What happens when you offer roaches? What kind of roaches are you giving them?

I'm not a total cad. I grieved when my Shelfordella lateralis colony crashed. They'll flourish for months, and then collapse like a house of cards. My cricket success has made up for that, however. I've got a particular generation of Acheta Domesticus that is still chirping after 4 months...

Ah, but we should admire them for what they are, and not despair when the inevitable occurs. Are you a science fiction buff? Alien (1979) is classic. ASH: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its...

If you were a fly, it would kill you in a heartbeat. Just thought I'd give you some perspective. ;)

The cost of the artificial diet would put it out of my price range: https://www.educationalscience.com/insect-diets/gulf-fritillary-diets

I don't think Skynet will become self-aware anytime soon.

My Dubias are outgrowing their bin. Just wondering if anyone is interested in a batch of 100-200 in mixed sizes at about half the going rate. Maybe 200 adults (and miscellaneous juveniles) for $40? Shipping cost would be on top of that. Please let me know, and I'll purchase the appropriate...

I remember a Peter Clausen Valentine's Day video. Something about "Spending time with the one you love" and Peter's in a bathtub full of water bugs. It's on his Instagram page. One of these days, I need to find that video again.

You're in good company.

I'm just fine, so long as the peas don't touch the carrots.