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Sorry for the bad pic I'll get another one @izbiggs

@izbiggs ah okay thanks for the quick reply and what do you think?

@hymenopus @izbiggs I think my mantis is about to molt although she ate this morn, I would be delighted but she has chosen a spot with the point of a leaf right below her abdomen and it could be really bad, she hasn't actually started molting yet so is there anyway I could get her to move?

@izbiggs okay she seems small for a female compared to other females I've seen is there a reason for this?

@hymenopus okay thanks

@hymenopus maybe but she's nearly due a molt so it could be that also a question: my rhombodera basalis female ( I think) is l5 how many molts do you think she still has

@hymenopus she is l5 so I dont think she can have an ooth yet

So I fed my mantis a cricket earlier and the mantis was looking healthily plump, about an hour later I go back to check on her and she is about 10x fatter? Why is this?

The thing is tomorrow we are going away and I have to take her on a 2 hour drive so I'm just hoping she molts when we get there not before!

Yeah that's what I mean, the underside of her abdomen seems stretched to the limit even though her last molt was only 11 days ago now

Haha glad it helped!

I don't know as she is sideways on on the side of the enclosure plus she only molted 10 days ago edit: although I fed her nothing today and one small cricket yesterday which isn't that much for an l5 female yet she looks like she's going to explode she's so obese! I don't know why

Ok so my rhombodera basalis has this kind of yellowey bage (sorry for the spelling) running along the side of her body, just above the side of the abdomen and it's extremely thin and just above the abdomen on the side of her wing bud things (she's l5) I'm a worrier so it's probably nothing but...

Hi the eyes have gone back to normal now and there is no vomit in the enclosure, I'm not sure if she ate the food I put in yesterday because I couldn't find it and she looks plump, I'll try her on a (well fed) cricket today and see how it goes I'm feeling quite reassured now thankyou very much

No other symptoms

something's wrong with my mantis, the eyes are a murky red colour and appears to have black liquid in her mouth, also this morning she wouldn't take food and went crazy and started jumping and running around. I think it might be the Black Death please help!???

Wow thanks