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Okay. . . so everything else is fine?

It's a small world. . . that's how my first mantis nymphs died, too.  I think I'm going to take your advice and look into those creoboters. . . the main setup I was planning to use for the European nymphs this year (and will still use) is mostly that I have a couple of those fish-tank...

Okay. . . thanks for the suggestion. I probably was responsible for some of those deaths, tho. I didn't really know what I was supposed to be doing.

Thanks. I'll probably still wait until I've proven to myself that I can successfully raise nymphs, though. I'm not doing so well in that department.

Hi. . . I bet you've heard this question a million times before, but. . . to really narrow it down to a specific set of groups. . . if I were to go online, specifically to Bugs in Cyberspace of Panterrapets, to buy, specifically, an Orchid Mantis or a Creobroter Gemmatus, and I live in Idaho in...

Cool.

Glad to hear you did some research before getting your first mantises. I didn't and it was a wreck. So you're already doing much better than I did :)   Hope everything goes great! I totally want to hear about their first molts and the like. . . 

Thanks, guys. . .

That makes me feel slightly better about all the casualties the first time I tried keeping baby mantises. 

Hi there. Sorry I skipped this topic for my first post. . .  Heh. Autocorrect just corrected me. . . at least, I'm going to blame autocorrect. I can't imagine I wrote "pose" instead of "post" on accident.  I've been fascinated with mantises for three years, since I read in an old book that...

Can anyone think of a case where there was no cause? As in, you could rule out all seven variables listed above?