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I got home only to find that my first of 3 giant dead leaf nymphs has officially matured into a beautiful male. I have one more male and one female in need of one more molt to mature. I plan on breeding them and have read the tips on breeding mantids pinned here. I was just wondering if anyone...

My fruit fly culture was also infested. They all ended up dying off in a week and I had to throw them.. sorry I wish I had a better answer for how to keep them alive and get rid of the mites. :( I wish you luck!

Actually I did put two cut up halves of a lemon in with my dubias after I cleaned everything with bleach 3-4 times. I’m an avid watcher of antscanada and knew that he had used it to some success with his ant colony. Honestly, I don’t know if it did much but my dubias seemed to like the lemons...

Leia passed away today..  it’s my first ever mantis death but I had been preparing for this outcome for a while. I still don’t know what this was but she fought it for so long and at least I know I truely tried my best to save her. 

Ultimately shes quarantined from my others and I wash my hands in between her and them in case she has something. If she never passes then great! weird but great! If she does then I've tried everything I can think of. 

Shes still doing it and now its looking reddish. No longer a dark brown. Honestly I have no idea because she's otherwise still acting fine! Maybe its not what I thought it was? I'm unsure. 

I can try to find a small enough dubia. I think I still have a few nymphs... in the meantime I’ll start the honey. 

I am still giving her around 7-8 hydei whenever her abdomen starts looking too flat. I haven’t gone back to the blue bottles since they were what she was eating when this all started. 

I guess there are grain mite eggs in most forms of grain to begin with since they can be so difficult to completely eradicate/prevent. From what I hear if you have high humidity and leave flour out you can get them infesting your pantry. Kinda gross to think about but cooking kills them and I’ve...

Okay weird thing, after she molted she’s started it up again. Only small amounts and not nearly as dark as before but she’s throwing up again ? she seems otherwise fine.. i don’t get it. 

Aw I’m so sorry :(  

Good news! She’s still free of anymore vomiting and she’s molted! Hopefully in the clear now. 

There is still no throwing up of her food today and she’s been not moving from the underside of her leaf so I’m thinking molt today or tomorrow! :)  

No throw up today! Yay! I fed her two small fruit flies (not trying to over stuff her) and we’ll see tomorrow if it stays the same. :)  

Hey whatever works for you! I have had good luck with josh’s frogs fly spikes just take a few out of the fridge a few days early and let them emerge from the spikes as flies. All of my mantids very clearly prefer them over the small dubias or cut up mealworms I’ve offered before. Especially my...

Oh and sorry to double post but yeah I was happy to see how well she drank from the q-tip. I have watched many (probably too many) antscanada YouTube videos and I know they use cotton balls for ants to drink so I thought I’d give it shot! Worked well! I was a tiny bit worried she’d try to eat...

I had heard that crickets can cause this during my research online about it but I’ve never fed any of my mantises crickets. I’ll move her back to the smaller Fruit flies I have thank goodness she still bothers with them unlike her sibling. 

Yeah, the only other thing I could think of is the stress from all the cleaning I had to do weeks ago to get rid of the grain mites I had. I had cleaned each mantis cup with hot water 4 or 5 days in a row which meant handling them more than I would under usual circumstances. If that was the...

She is L4. Her sister that was from the same ootheca molted to L5 on the 12th and is easily triple Leia's size. I wonder if there is something wrong with her. As for the honey tip  I will do that next time then! I had heard too much honey could cause her to crash so I was really cautious. 

One of my Heirodula girls Leia has been leaving brown streaks all down her cage the last two days. I think she is throwing up. No idea what caused it as she is eating the same blue bottle flies as everyone else. Perhaps bacteria. Anyways, today I created a very light honey and water mixture...