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No, thank you!

Yeah sounds all normal to mean. What temperature by the way, higher the temperature the faster their metabolic rate. 

I personally don't believe it harms mantises. Of course, it should only really be used if a mantis has an abdominal infection or won't eat for dangerous amounts of time. And it should be raw honey or some other form of honey without added chemicals. 

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Yeah, they should be fine if packaged properly.

What thread? 

I know!! I really want to find her a man.

PM me for details. 

We need more in the hobby. I'm also planning on breeding my girl if I can find her a man.

Is it just mine or is yours also a brat?

I love how the last one is in black and white. 

I don't know if that is good or bad. 

Has she molted yet? I have a similar sized Orchid at the same instar and what looked like at the same level of development as yours and she just molted. 

Do you have any idea what could cause that or is it purely genetic?

I like it here, and on the Facebook group, but some people prefer different platforms and I enjoy interacting on all of them. 

I'm 13 too, what month?

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Hopefully, it can be done without inbreeding. I know that inbreeding doesn't affect mantids that much but it could still weaken the population. 

I'm just curious how reliable genetics are for predicting the color of an adult mantis. Because I know genetics determine quite a lot seen as I've seen Orchids and Ghosts kept in the same environment being very different colors. It would be very cool to have different color forms of Giant Asian...