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@Synapze, I asked the maintenance board about that. They said there hadn't been, but they also said they'd get back to me with more information. I don't think there was, since I work with other bug people (in a different building) and we like to gossip about different insect infestations that...

Hello, I've been raising Chinese mantises (Tenodera sinensis) in my lab for 5 months now. They were all L6-L7, not yet adults, because I needed them for experiments in January so I was feeding them weekly and keeping them at about 22 degrees Celsius. Over these 5 months, I have left them alone...

Hey all, I've been raising ~100 mantises for my master's thesis, and as such I have access to people who are much smarter than me who have raised THOUSANDS of praying mantises for behavioural experiments. One of them used to work in D.D. Yager's mantis lab (which, upon finding out, I half...

the bureaucracy looks like... a lot. What if I duct tape a couple of 32 oz deli cups together? like this: 

Hmmm... perhaps I should push for permission to get Phyllocrania paradoxa or another, easier-to-rear species. That might be more practical, even if the bureaucracy of it all is as painful as I predict it will be :(

I'm working on mantis behaviour for my thesis and, since Sciencetm requires a LOT of replicates, I'm going to have to raise a couple hundred mantises at once. In Canada, my options are pretty limited, so I can either use M. religiosus or T. sinensis. The latter is more readily available, so for...

Mantises are super voracious and apparently are not very picky when it comes to what they eat, other than sticking to things that are small enough for them to actually eat (and sometimes not even then; I'm looking at you, mantises that kill and try to eat hummingbirds 🤦‍♂️). I've come across...

Hey y'all, I'm a Canadian bug enthusiast who will be starting his masters in biology soon. I'm going to be working on praying mantis predatory behaviours,  such as hunting site selection and prey selection. Since Canada has exactly one native mantis species, I'm going to be working with the...