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Wow nice catch. What species is it?

Congrats on the adult male! Wow talk about an aggressive display and awesome "blue flash". I was slightly thrown back when my mantises did their threat display but they never struck my finger. Aside from that, my adult pair seems to be happily married together. I hope they aren't secretly...

I was planning on going to the Pet store to pick up crickets but listening to everyone's dislike of them, I wanna catch the katydid's outside because not only are they are naturally bred but also since they don't dwell on the ground. Do you guys know of any ways to attract them? So far I've been...

whoa that gold violin(?) is pretty awesome.

Im not sure about europeans but my blue flash female took almost a full 2 weeks before she ate anything. Its quite normal after the later sheds for the mantises to take longer to resume their appetite. I also noticed that my female munched exactly around the guts of the grasshopper. Perhaps...

I'm fairly certain that the chinese mantis is bigger in length although I don't know by how much. I took measurements of my pair and both slightly reach over 7 cm.

I used to make annual trips to Salt Lake City with my parents years ago. There was this hotel out from the city that we stayed at which attracted hundreds of European mantises. I would always catch a couple before I left. You reminded me about something that seemed a bit strange about the...

Hey everyone! I wanted to share my excitement of my first adult pair of "blue flash" mantises. Since I assume that people here are more on the picture side than the story side ... allow me to share. Sorry for the poor lighting Male - molted between 8/26 and 8/28 molted to subadult on 8/1...

She looks like she needs to be plumped up to avoid eating the male

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looking forward to this

I've been ecstatic for the past couple of days since my female has returned to being a voracious predator. It's almost as if the blind were to see again! :lol: After starving her for a few days, she thinned out and all of a sudden noticed every single fly I put inside her cage. I didn't think...

Really into the popa spurca I see. Nice setups! Your divider for the widearms reminds me of myself using the packaging from GreenOasis to separate my Sphodros as well.

Wait I live in Southern California and I haven't seen a darn mantis in 5 years....

Man the head of the wide-arm always makes that species look more alien. Awesome pics!

Don't know how you feel about crickets but the can be easily manipulated with tweezers. Are popa spurca generally skittish? I would say feed what you can and give it some time. My blue flash female spontaneously decided to kill everything in sight including all my house flies today. I did starve...

No way you can feed mantises passion fruit?

Well I have to admit she was certainly a good host since no fly died. I decided to let the flies go. No point in having them buzz around my mantis irritating it.

Funny. I ran into a similar thing with my mantis as well. In fact it's been about 10 days as well since she molted. I'd be interested in where you end up getting moth pupae. They are special finds where I live.

So I recently experienced a random house fly explosion. Probably a dead animal in the roof rotting and all the pupae are hatching out right now. Instead of using the vacuum, I decided to drop about 10-15 flies in my mantis cage and behold she is hosting a fly party. Probably isn't hungry ...