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Yeah, I'm thinking I would definitely use native. We have Carolina, European, and Chinese here in abundance. I'm going to visit a local plant nursery and see if I can get an ooth.  The idea was to do medium jars that still big enough for molting, with a designed out care sheet to let people...

I mist my ghosts once every three days or so, and have been feeding them crickets. Once the males reached adulthood they haven't eaten much at all, and just kind of behead the crickets and toss the bodies. I don't worry about the temperature at all, as room temperature seems to be fine for them...

I was thinking I could buy a couple ooths from a local nursery and then put the nymphs in designed mason jars with different color lichen and cloth lids. I was also going to design and print some nice cardstock care sheets to give people. I live in Salt Lake City, and our farmers market is...

I haven't heard any mantid keepers talk about curling wing flies as a good feeder insect. I don't like the idea of having flying feeders, and I doubt my girlfriend would ever change her mind on the no bugs in the fridge position. Curly wing flies, as a flightless house fly, seems like a good...

And as an added bonus. Here's my own tan phase ghost mantis. 

In it the main guy Newt Scamander has a magical creature and friend that looks like a cross between a stick insect and a mantis made of a twig and topped with two small leaves called a Bowtruckle that hangs out on his shoulder or in his jacket pocket. I couldn't help but think that we were way...

They seem much smaller than my ghosts, which are sub adults and eating small crickets. I definitely preferred feeding them fruit flies because I didn't have to worry about feeding or injuries. Is the spiny flower mantis small enough to feed fruit flies (hydei then melonogaster) its entire life...

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I spent some time traveling and landed back in Utah last winter, and a few months later started renting a nice house with a yard right outside of downtown with my girlfriend. I've been swarmed by box elder bugs in a previous apartment, but the absolutely insane elm seed big epidemic is like...

They definitely come in contact with the fruit flies, and usually kick them across the jar when they crawl on them.

I'm not sure how old my mantis are, but I'm assuming somewhere between L3 and L4, and I believe they're both male. I started with mal fruit flies, but they seemed a little small for them, so moved on to hyd fruit flies, but they haven't seemed to eat them either. I also offered the smallest...

I'm an enormous mantis fan, and wasn't sure if keeping a pet mantis was at all common. I'm super happy that I was able to see such an active community surrounding the hobby. My girlfriend and I are both allergic to most pets, and a mantis, including its size and care, would be perfect for us...