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She's not really accepting the honey water I've been giving to her today. She's not really moving, but technically still alive. I took her out of her cage and gave it a final cleaning and placed her back in. I'm guessing she'll go tonight or tomorrow.  Sorry to hear about Teensie - this is...

So sorry to hear about the loss of Tickles. :(  Very Mantis Christmas to you, too. 

It's harder than you think to lose one, isn't it?  Bruce looks to be on her last day today, but who knows. She wouldn't eat her cricket that I got for her last night. 

Nice! I like the setup! I need a bigger one for one of my little guys, but don't want to spend any money. This is a great idea. 

I didn't think she'd get this far, honestly. I'll be sad to see her go. 

We brought in Bruce from the outside around two months ago. She's a female Chinese mantis and our 2nd we've kept as a pet. We didn't know she was female until she laid her first ooth. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed her slowing down. And then a week or so ago, I had her out on the pencil plant...

My female Chinese mantis is also nearing her end of life. We brought her inside a few months ago after the postman saw her on our bay window. She's given us three ooths and is really slowing down. Hard to watch, I agree. I never thought I'd get attached to a bug. 

That's a great name!

I'm on batch two of the houseflies and they take at least four days to hatch once out of the fridge.

This is great info to have - not too much info at all! Thank you. I'm going to need to keep track of this as well, as I don't want my mantids to starve :) Thanks for the tips on the blue bottle flies - that's what I'll get next time around.

She's likely in too small of a container for her, as she's really clumsy. I take her out on the weekends and let her hang out on our pencil plant. Did you name yours?

So far she is. I imagine she'll pass in the next month or so, but she's been awesome to have as a pet.

The first one was taken with my DSLR and edited in Lightroom. 2nd one was from my iPhone 8+.  Thank you!

Here's another pic of her.

Bruce, enjoying some rays.  :D  She's laid two ooths and is missing part of one leg. I thought we were going to lose her last week, but she's still kickin'!

Wow - those are amazing setups! I love them all. Thank you for sharing them! I hope to get an Exo Terra some day... the one I had shipped from Petco came broken. 

Hello! I'm new to the hobby as of a few months ago. :)

I've come to realize that feeding flies is really annoying. I can't take my mantids out and handle them while there are live flies in there....because flies *fly*. First world mantis owner problems, I know. :P

It's taking about 4-5 days for the pupae to hatch, for anyone else who might have this problem. I did put them in the freezer for 60 seconds and everyone got flies tonight. Bruce (our adult Chinese female) already ate all hers. :)

Um, I want to go live in that vivarium! That's gorgeous. Sorry I can't answer your question, but that's a great setup.