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If she's showing signs of life, keep doing what you're doing! One of my mantises has a missing leg and one of my mantises will only eat if I hand feed. If you have unfiltered and raw honey (unprocessed), that can give her a little strength and help prevent bacterial infection from any open...

Yes, they're absolutely amazing creatures! I love them. What kind is yours?

I tend to get attached. I raise this little creature from a nymph, feed it by hand when it's sick, hold it, play with it, watch it molt and grow, and I'm always sad when my mantis dies. One of my mantids died today, actually. I'm quite sad.  :(  RIP Buddy. 

I don't know if @Savechanges still has any, but his mantids and R. Basalis are A++++

I got them from @hibiscusmile from her online shop! They're so cute

Oh no! I'm glad I didn't get the chomp. His mouth is very small though, thankfully 

Oh, I see! I had just eaten some potato chips, haha. He must like the salt! He drank lots of water when he went back into his cage, too.

@hibiscusmile sorry, off-topic, but I recently ordered a few mantis species from you and your mantises are beautiful! Thank you so much.

@crabbypattyI keep mine under a heat lamp and mist them daily. They love drinking! They'll eat practically anything. Rebecca's care sheet is very good. One of mine recently molted to subadult! They're so interesting and energetic.

I recently got some Blepharopis mendica nymphs and I couldn't be happier! :D  Also, would appreciate any tips or stories you have about the species! 

Precarious sent me a Sybilla Pretiosa ooth carefully packaged and intact! He clearly cares, shipped promptly, and is very polite and kind. Thank you @Precarious :)  

Awesome, great to hear it! Welcome to the forum! :)

I notice that when I'm holding some of my mantises, they'll bend down and tickle me with their mouths. Not bite, but just... tickle. Even my big Malaysian shields! Does anybody know what they're doing?  :P The little C. Pictipennis who inspired this post:

I am searching for some wandering violins. If you have any for sale, PM me! Thank you! Edit: I'm in Paradise Valley, Arizona

I have some T. Sinensis nymphs for sale, L2. They're $8 each or you could trade with me. PM me if you're interested!

Welcome to the forum! :)  I'm pretty new myself. 

If you have larvae, they'll take a couple days to pupate and then to hatch into fruit flies. If the situation calls for it, you can even feed the mantis the larvae! I've never kept crickets personally, but I hear that potatoes are good for crickets because it feeds them and gives them water...

All fruit fly cultures crash, which means that all of the flies seem to drop at once! This usually takes a couple of weeks, since that is the lifespan of the flies, but it also depends on if there were mites, mold, or if it dried out. I'm guessing what happened is that the usual crash occurred...

Anybody know what kind of cocoon this is? The larvae already hatched, so I cut them open! This was found in Camp Verdy, Arizona! 

I just edited the topic with the information you gave me!