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They have both been adults for 15 - 20 days. I planned on waiting till she made 21 but Im afraid that my adult male will up and die for no apparent reason like my other one did. He had only been adult for a month. This hobby is so frustrating cuz you can try so hard to do everything just right...

Well after five hours riding around on her back without actually connecting I had to remove him, cuz I dont plan on leaving them alone together. Is that normal, or does he need to mature more before I introduce him to her again?

Another of my adult males died yesterday from sudden mantis death syndrome... so fo fear that my luck is running out I went ahead and introduced the other adult male to her today. he jumped right on and has been riding around on her for about an hour now, but no real action. How long do the...

While this may be true, and recieving a damaged mantis is something that should not be tolerated, the main point is to determine whether to hold out for the damaged mantis to get better or to euthanize it to prevent further suffering. My experience is that if the mantis is young enough when the...

What instar is he??

Did the male always have the brown shoulder strap or was it green at some point?

I have two adults and one sub... I would be willing to sell or trade one of them. How mature is your female?

Since I am down to only three and still unable to properly determine their sex, my chances of breeding are pretty slim... but it is strange. they all started out the same size being from the same clutch and all, and have been kept under identical conditions. However the three that remain are all...

I managed to catch one of my other males in the middle of molting to adult as can be seen in these photos... Drying his wings... Successful molt: One of the other subadult males died during his molt process apparently from falling. Now I am down to 3 Males to be mated with the...

She appeared to be healthy. Though she did not pay attention to the cricket at the bottom of her enclosure she made many attempts to get my fingers when I touched the outside of the plastic container she was in. Her eyes were clear and she acted normal and alert... until I introduced the fly to...

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It all depends on your environment, and even then there is a risk involved. Until recently I lived in Texas, and there it is mostly cattle ranches, so very few pesticides were used in the area, but I just moved to Indiana, where corn and wheat farms are everywhere you look, so the chance that...

Yep, it is definitely Pseudocreobotra. Nice looking specimen though, and good photography too!

One male molted to adult two weeks ago. The female was kept nice and warm and fed 3 times as much as the rest of the bunch, and as a result molted to adult yesterday. Now I have 3 sub males still waiting to get their wings. Do P.O.s live as long as P.W.s, and if so should I plan to try and mate...

That doesnt sound like Nola at all. I wonder if she is ok.

Unfortunately fishing shops dont sell bluebottle maggots here in the states. That leaves us with only online distributers to purchase from and shipping charges alone can quickly put you in the red. But I got 8 FF cultures with hundreds of flies in each, and that keeps my P.O.'s fat and happy.

Ocellata rock simply becuause you can raise one to adult without any problems stricly on a diet of fruit flies... The bigger a mantis gets the bigger their feeder insects need to be... Maybe if shipping charges to constantly be ordering flies, bluebottles, crickets dont bother you then that is...