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Finally saw Minty's defense posture, sorry I spooked you little buddy! Very pretty wings though

Exactly! My two funny little friends Minty and Cilantro (rip Lentil). It doesn't take an expert to realize that your behavior drives customers away.

I'm not interested in breeding or selling mantids! I've seen evidence posted by other users and your response, which is enough. I dunno if you'll even be selling nymphs if you keep this up.

"Man, I wonder what will help my case...how about I go onto another, unrelated post and continue to name call!" Anyways, I like it agent A! I'm not a major plant person, but I took a plant bio introduction class last year and it's cool to see some of the clades again! (honestly, I might have...

This is not helping your case LOL if you can't be civil about feedback then nobody is going to buy from you

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!!

Wow, she's gorgeous! Welcome!!

And finally some videos! Just realized you could take them with my microscope. Look at her antennae go! Minty getting a drink Cilantro being a great leaf but a bad model Minty cleaning himself

Took some more microscope pictures of them before heading home for break, too! Minty posed and Cilantro pretended to be a moving leaf. Didn't get too many clear pictures because she was wiggling, but it's cool to see the marbled pattern in her eyes!

Cilantro has molted! She was in premolt for about 3 weeks (where I was constantly glancing at her and thinking she'd molt any minute), and in the 2 hours I was away taking my organic chemistry final she molted. It's really cool to see how green she got! She was much more brown when I first...

Can you post a picture of them? If I'm understanding correctly, you bought blue bottle fly spikes/maggots and they've now developed into pupa? If so, yup! They'll hatch at room temperature. Mine took about a week (roughly) to hatch, and most had emerged after 3 weeks before I got so fed up...

Wow, they look so much better! How did you do that?

An aquatic isopod I collected for a class! It's cool to see all the hairlike gills (I assume they are), it makes them look fuzzy.

Sorry to hear that he passed, I bet he appreciated the warm place to go. Hopefully you'll see more in spring!

Just checked out your insta, gorgeous mantids! I'm excited to check out your store when you open it!

Named my Ghost Cilantro because she looks like a piece of it that got left in the fridge for a few weeks

Unfortunately I will be spamming like..every one of my threads with microscope pictures now. Here's the old molts of Minty and Cilantro under the microscope! I thought one of Cilantro's eyes looked a little weird when I got her, and it looks like it was damaged in her old molt with some of it...

I'd love to get Armadillidium klugii! They're such a pretty species. Also, some more microscope pictures of the isopods, which do not like to cooperate

What species is she? I think that she should be ok - just don't feed her again until her belly gets flat again. They can swell to be pretty big!

Solid reasoning! I've been giving mine plant-themed names so far! Started with Minty and Lentil, and now Cilantro. Not sure what I'll name my next one ... (Or even what kind I'll get!)