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I named her Honeydew. We're in Pennsylvania.  So I'm thinking she's Chinese or European? I've had her a month now.  At around 2.5 weeks she laid an ooth, then another a week and a half later.  Any chance they're fertile? I thought of ordering flies but I think her current diet is enough for...

@hysteresis Animal psychology was one of my favorite classes when I was an undergrad.   I think mantids have some degree of learning where to get food.  In the wild they may return to the same place to hunt if the hunting is good there.  That's why a good experiment might be to test if this is...

I had read about mantids being observed eating fish in the wild.  And although I'd like to give her more house flies and moths there aren't many around to catch and my local pet stores don't sell them.  I want to diversify her diet so it's more natural.  She's eaten two small zebra fish and then...

Depending on how much time you have you could design an experiment around testing the intelligence of mantids.  Do you hand feed yours at all?  If you do then you can use food as a reward system and perhaps test if mantids can count.  Apparently honeybees can count 0-4...

I came here to learn from others with experience and share my own.  I have always loved praying mantids since I was a kid and this year was the my first time adopting one from the wild for the winter.  I found her on the back porch railing, very slow moving, the cold was already getting to her...