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Ah another has fallen to the siren's song of the mantis! Welcome to the community.

Welcome to the community man. I love your username!

Welcome to the community. Mantids will happily give you a hand...er raptoral arm with your insect problem and there is no need to fear them, they harmless to humans. A word of warning though...If your going to hatch an ooth inside make sure the container doesnt have any holes or gaps in it for...

Welcome to the community! Everything looks good to me. Im sure your going to enjoy your chinese. They are cool critters.

Welcome to the community. I look forward to seeing some photos from you. :)

Welcome to the community. Its a pleasure to have you.

Im looking to expand my "pet bug collection" to enclude scorpions. I already have one emperor scorpion that I would like to possibly find a mate for. I am also interested in any other of the large scorpion species.

I went to Repticon with a friend this past weekend and saw that they had quite a few Emperor Scorpions. Long story short one man there was selling a single scorpion in a tiny critter keeper. The price tag was $8 for the Emperor and the enclosure and had been marked down from $10. As my friend...

I agree with Rick. Three days really isnt that long to leave a mantis when you make sure they are welll cared for before and after your trip. All you can really do if your mantids are sick or injured is take care of them the best you can.

Mine did fine at room temp. All you really need is an enclosure of some kind, something in the bottom to hold moisture (wood chips are my fave) and something for them to climb on. (I use sticks wrapped with fake ivey.)

Strange. Up until this day its has seemed like even the green chinese I saw had brown wings.

My boss man caught a Chinese mantis tonight and brought it to me. She is a pretty green color and seems quite healthy and happy however I noticed something odd about her, while all other Chinese mantids that I have seen have brown wings with green margins this mantis has all green wings. Has...

Welcome to the community. Ghost mantids are a lot of fun. They dont move mutch but look so strange that they dont really need to.

Welcome to the community. "Keeping Aliens" is a great book. Ghosts are a good starter species if you dont mind smaller mantids. Personaly I think the common Chines is a great mantis to start with. They are a fun and easy mantis to raise and can take down large prey. Orchids are considered a...

I just cant help it. Ever since I saw some roasted crickets Ive wanted to try some or maybe some grasshoppers, ants, or scorpions.

Pretty much all spiders are venomous, being able to pierce the skin with there fangs however is another matter.

I really dig those. I just wish they didnt cost so much!

I feed cicadas to all the female chinese mantids that I keep. Its a long slow death for the cicada but its a great meal for the mantis. I guess thats the circle of life for ya.

Interesting Rick, what mantis species was it that you found?

Nice mantis. Looks like it could be a Stagmomantis sp.