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I came up with an interesting technique to keep your mantises fed for whenever your cultures may have little to no adult flies when it's time to feed. I've usually had no problem with having flies available while maintaining two cultures at a time but this year, my cultures would produce adult...

What works for me is to put them in the crisper of the fridge in a sealed plastic container. One with a lid that snaps on airtight. No, they won't suffocate in this! The container is lined with paper towel and I add a single drop of water before closing the lid and putting it into the fridge...

The Narrow-winged Mantis As most beginners and experts alike know about the Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis), other species within the genus seem to go unnoticed. Especially because how similar they are to each other. In the eastern United States, two species of Tenodera are naturalized...

@MrGhostMantis You replied while I was writing my own thread! It's nice to meet you. 🙂

I'm an invertebrate enthusiast from Ontario, Canada who's been out of the hobby for a while. My love for insects, arachnids and reptiles has never gone and I plan on getting back into mantis keeping in the near future. What re-sparked my interest was when I happened along an ootheca a couple...

Hello, a keeper from Canada in Ontario here! I was out of the hobby for a while but I'm getting back into it in the near future.

It's been a while since I've been on here and I'm looking to get back into exotic mantis species. I'm located in Ontario, Canada near Toronto and it's hard to find other keepers. I'm looking for Sophodromantis, Hierodula and any Hymenopodidae species mainly but I'm interested in most. If you...

They were kept on moist papertowel as substrate and kept in a plastic shoebox enclosure with mesh put on the lid for ventilation. I've used this exact setup before and never had an issue. The temperature was room temperature. I found out that the ooth probably wasn't refrigerated long enough...

I hatched out a wild-collected Mantis religiosa ootheca that I collected last Autumn and had stored in the refrigerator at 5 degrees Celsius. It was put in the fridge in the first week of October and was taken out to incubate on the 5th of January. It hatched right after 4 weeks of incubating at...

Creobroter sp. 'Bokoharjo' for sale in Niagara Falls, pickup only. They are 4th instar and are eating hydei fruitflies. They are $5 each or 5 for $20.

Creobroter sp. 'Bokoharjo' nymphs for sale. They are currently 1st instar, soon to be 2nd. Asking for $15 each or $10 each if you buy more than one. I am located in the Niagara Region in Ontario.

I have 2nd, 3rd and 4th instar Ghosts for sale and 4th and 5th instar Chinese for sale. I am in the Niagara region in Ontario. Contact me if interested.

I haven't seen any vomit and the feces look normal to me. They are sort of round and dark coloured. It's strange that only my Hierodula have the stink but not my other species. I guess musky is a good way to describe it. I completely cleaned out their enclosures and replaced the substrate and...

I had a subadult female P. wahlbergii that was in premolt for almost a week and she had me scared because she seemed to have been getting slimmer and weaker and I thought she wasn't going to make it. Then all of a sudden she molted into adulthood!

I have two adult female Hierodula that seem healthy and eat when given prey. One of them has already mated too. What I don't understand is why they have a funny, unpleasant smell. I keep them on coco coir as a substrate and I spot clean by picking out dead prey parts so I know that stuff isn't...

One of the females was calling and I tried mating them in the afternoon. Unfortunately, in the room I am living in for college, there's no windows! Maybe the mantises are having trouble mating because they are not exposed to natural day length.

They are in my fridge right now because I haven't decided if it would be a good idea to hatch them now. They have been in winter temperature for around 6-8 weeks since the beginning of December so they may have been cold for long enough but still not sure if I should wait until at least March.

I went on a walk today because it was sunny and not very windy. The snow was knee deep due to yesterday's huge snowstorm. I was walking by an area of development where they had installed a temporary fence made with that landscape fabric stuff. Since I found that mantids like to lay their ooths...

My females are quite placed too, even after being pierced by the male. Does anyone know why the female sometimes doesn't open up for him so he can penetrate? and what can be done to encourage her too?

I had a male T. sinensis eagerly jump onto the female and landed backwards, puncturing a hole in her abdomen and another case of a male starting to chew on her prothorax for some reason. I guess it's not always the female that's the threat during a pairing. Unless I didn't feed the males enough...