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Thank you guys! I wasn't able to find a kit, but I bought some mesh straight up and it works great! I had used untreated mosquito mesh and it was an absolute pain to work with. I hope my little guy will like it when I move him in!

Thanks, I'll do that!

They're all beautiful! I love the wing spots so much. I was hoping for Minty to be female so I'd have a bit more time with him, but as long as he stays healthy I'll just be glad to have him. Once he graduates to his enclosure I think I'll order another nymph (maybe a budwing or ghost?) and...

Hi! Both of my mantis cages need their tops upgraded - one has a solid plastic top and the other has metal mesh. Definitely going to replace the plastic one with mesh but it's not a huge priority since I don't have anything going in there at the moment (and I need to figure out how to do it...

I don't know if these pictures will help, but they're pretty cute. Unfortunately they're grainy because I was taking pictures of the microscope screen, and had to screenshot them so they'd meet the file limit here. I uploaded them to imgur as well for better quality. The links will be beneath...

This is really informative, thank you! I've seen the ocelli on other insects and pictures of larger mantises, but never looked too close at my own to see them! I have a digital microscope, so I think I'll try to get Minty under it later today to take some pictures. I was planning on using that...

Yes, that's the one I have! I probably should have included the scientific name in my showcase post. These pictures are really helpful, thank you! I found out what their full state is after..an incident with a free mantis sent with my order - I was not expecting to have two and only had stuff...

I'm not sure if I can get a good picture with my phone - I'll try later! How can you tell? I was just going to wait until they molted into their adult form to tell lol.

This is my mantis! They're a jewel flower mantis - not sure of the sex yet. I think that they're on i4? I've named them Minty! I purchased them from mantisuniverse.com.

I've recently gotten into keeping mantises, but unfortunately I've found that care guides can be lacking (for instance, I couldn't find any visual examples of what a full Jewel Flower Mantis nymph looked like and accidentally underfed mine for a couple weeks). I thought that a forum for this...