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Thanks, that is a great introduction of the dead leaf species. Clear and useful illustrations without being too wordy and right on point.  

Yes crickets are controversial. My first mantis was the  Red Armed Mantis and was a very active mantis. She happily eats the crickets that I gave her. The last cricket I gave she became sick like and lethargic. Then a few days later she went into her final molt. She was in a lot of pain for...

Hi, I am John, retired from engineering and IT. I decided that for a small pet praying mantis makes a lot of sense as compared to frogs, snakes and lizards types . Currently have eleven mantis.  May look into trades in the Denver Boulder area. I am getting good information from this board.

I am getting a bit confused on what are the differences  between Deroplatys desiccata, Deroplatys Lobata and Deroplatys Truncata in care and size. Maybe others as well. I have not found information that was consistent between three types I have mention so far I know. 

That is how I have been doing but crickets are hard to catch. It is like trying to catch popping popcorn with tweezers. I do not want to squeeze the life out of the crickets and the mantis will not eat it. I only have one mantis that will eat worms or none will try roaches like Dubia which are...

I am trying to see if there is a way to dispense small crickets to mantis without getting them loose in the house. I think the the common cricket keeper with square tubes will not keep the small crickets in as the vents seems to be too big for the small crickets. Looking into using a funnel tube...

Is there a difference between Deroplatys desiccata and Deroplatys Lobata? I understand that both are Dead leaf type.