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Thanks! Always appreciate the quick and thoughtful responses here. My elementary students would be devastated if our mantids died due to lack of proper care. 

How do I attach the screen to the lid? I'm assuming this is so they can hang upside down?

Hey all, I have an L6 Chinese praying mantis that is now 2 inches long. The height of my 32 oz deli cup is just shy of 6 inches. It seems like its time to change enclosures before his next molt because the container is not 3x his length. Would you agree? 

Hi all, I have 3 L5/6 Chinese mantids and I recently switched to blue bottle flies because they stopped eating fruit flies.  The problem with blue bottle flies is I can't predict when they will come out of their cocoon, therefore making sure my mantids get fed regularly has been a challenge...

Order is on the way. Do you just put the pupae in the bottom of the enclosures and let them come out there?

I have an L4 Chinese praying mantis that just molted. In the process of molting he fell off the lid to the bottom of the enclosure. I gently pulled him out by one of the exoskeleton legs and laid him flat on the underside of the lid. There he courageously struggled out of his exoskeleton...

Any thoughts on where to get a culture of them?

Hi all, I have two L4 praying mantids and one L5 praying mantis. They seem to be outgrowing the D. Hydei flies I have. What would the next logical food source be? Blue bottle flies? Thanks!

Awesome thanks!

I have an L4 Chinese Praying Mantis whose behavior is making me wonder. His tarsus' seem to stick more than the other mantids I have and he seems to have a hard time walking around on the ceiling of his enclosure. I have 32oz cups from Mantis Place with the plastic lids coated in a thin papery...

The mantis actually died 2 days after that post. Overfeeding seems unlikely because he was smaller than the other three nymphs I have by far and I rarely saw him eating. I will keep a close watch on that for the remaining three though. 

Hi all, I believe mold is growing on the food at the bottom of my D. Hydei culture. Is there any chance this could adversely effect my Chinese Praying Mantids? I have another culture I bought because all the flies ran out before the new ones hatched so I can ditch it if need be. 

I am having the same issue with my chinese praying mantis nymph in his 3rd instar. I just confirmed he is vomiting red fluid. He has been fed exclusively fruit flies. I have 3 others that came from the same supplier and they have all molted into the 4th instar and are over twice as big. He is...

Hi, My name is Kyle. I am a 35 year old Montessori elementary teacher from Seattle, Washington.  I have always been fascinated by praying mantids. I had never seen one in the wild until a training session in Indiana where one was parked on a bush outside my dorm. It just sat there and seemed...

I appreciate the information in this care sheet. I am, however, a little frustrated by the lack of consistency that seems to come with mantis care. I read the book "Praying Mantis Ultimate Care Guide" by Thomas Green cover to cover and it has great general information and a lot of warnings about...