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Hello! I still have plenty Ghost Mantises (Phyllocrania paradoxa) for sale. They are now going into their third instar. I am asking for $25 each. I am from the Niagara region in Ontario and I don't ship outside the country. I also have Chinese Mantis (Tenodera sinensis) oothecae for sale along...

Usually I try to avoid spraying the mantis itself when misting because it often stresses the mantis out. I've had some mantises (especially males) that would get stressed enough to throw up a threat display. Stressing them out like this can cause some individuals to fall while trying to scamper...

I mostly just use paper towel because its cheaper and is easy to clean and replace. I will also use sphagnum moss sometimes for its naturalistic appearance but only for display setups because I do enjoy the natural look but i only have few display tanks compared to the number of utilitarian...

The body shape looks like M. religiosa to me. Out of the experience I've had with raising M. religiosa, I am almost certain that this is what it is. What I see is odd though is that the black eyespot on the inner side of the foreleg appears to be absent in the first photo. It would be unusual...

Oothecae just hatched and I have plenty of Ghost Mantis (Phyllocrania paradoxa) nymphs. At second instar they will be for sale for 5$ each. Price will gradually increase as they grow.

I got four of these tarantulas. I bought them as very small slings and now they are almost an inch long. The species I have is Hapalopus triseratus 'Lowland'.

I get my mesh from Home Hardware for a decent price and I just cut out a large hole in the lid of a deli cup and cover that hole by hot gluing mesh over it.

This summer, I have noticed fly maggots in my ff cultures. The maggots were noticeably larger than ff maggots and were around a centimeter long. I am wondering how did the flies manage to lay eggs in my cultures without getting in? I assume that maybe they were laying eggs right by where I have...

Popillia japonica, the Japanese Beetle is an invasive species where I live. I often see groups of adults congregated on various species of plants. I am wondering if large mantids like the Chinese (Tenodera sinensis) would be able to eat these. If so, I would like to collect these beetles to feed...

Maybe because of where I live, the Mantis religiosa could have adapted by growing to adult size within fewer instars. I don't know the climate of Portugal but if it's got a longer growing season than Ontario, that would give the mantids a longer time to grow and not have to mature as soon.

My second male Mantis religiosa just molted to adulthood and it is noticeably larger than my other male who skipped an instar. I know different species of mantids have different numbers of instars. I found that Mantis religiosa females only go through 6 instars whereas the males only go through...

Does anyone know what would be good to use as bait to catch flies? I work full time so I don't really have time to make a complicated mixture so I am looking for something simple yet effective. I would also prefer it not to be meat or dairy because I don't want to introduce salmonella from raw...

I just had a male Mantis religiosa skip an instar and become an adult. I had two males this week and one molted and moved on to 5th instar like normal whereas the other took a few days longer to molt and when it did, it matured into an adult instead of moving on to 5th instar like the other did...

Thank you! ^_^

I remember grabbing a fly in my bathroom and having maggots crawl out of its abdomen and it grossed me out so much.

I would say don't kill it because I think it can still hang upside down. I see one of its back legs looks normal too so I am pretty sure it has a chance of having a successful molt the next time it molts.

Sitting on a purple leaf.

The #9 on the tegmin of her wings

She has matured and now she's got wings!

My P. wahlbergii had matured a few weeks ago and I finally got around to taking nice photographs of her as an adult. I took her to my school greenhouse to change up the scenery so it's not just more pictures of her in her enclosure. These are a few of the photos I took of her.