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What do you have on the top for her to cling from? Having some sort of webby fabric (such as the netting from some wash-cloths, that's what I use anyway... the netting, cut from the washcloths, then my mom yells at me, hahaha, jk I just got them from a dollar store) on top is one idea...

Figured I'd post in this thread an update. All of my Rhombodera are adults. Pretty sure these are R. basalis. I have four females and two males, there are two females that are smaller than the other two females - but still their size is comparable to my adult female H. multispina that I had...

All the mantises I have raised were at room temperature. Granted, my room gets a bit warmer than the rest of the house due to my computer always being on, but still - Some species I have had trouble with. Violin mantises may not do too well in room temperature. On the otherhand, Hierodula sp...

Very strange... a mantis that was born 11 months ago and is still not adult? I have seen bugs that were stuck in a sub-adult stage for an extreme amount of time. I've no idea what causes this. Last year, there were a pair of M. differentialis grasshoppers that I would see often that never...

I am very interested in Plains Lubber grasshoppers, if anyone has come across those, say in their backyard... perhaps they have hatched out by now? Not sure though, but I figured I'd ask three days into Spring. I am also very interested in Horse Lubber grasshoppers from Arizona. The Greater...

One of my dead-leaf mantises has a problem with their arms for some reason, neither of them can be used, so I have to basically feed her like you do with Little Heat. Hopefully a few molts will fix her arms, she is third instar.

I couldn't do that. I'll give them to others as pets though.

I think Azazel just laid again. Close to a whole year later... A little update on the situation first - Since the 7 hatchlings, some got lost, or died while molting, or escaped or something. The 6 original adults were decreasing - 5 within a week of getting them (which was February 18... so...

I had Chinese mantises last year that would try to catch and eat my finger for food. Not out of being threatened, they were just really hungry and daring. It kind of hurts but the worst part is trying to get them to let go without hurting them - since they have quite a grip! That's the only...

The wingbuds seem a bit larger than sub-adult wingbuds I've seen on any other species. In fact, there are a couple things about this species that is proportionally larger than on a comparable Hierodula (for example) First is the distinctive pronotum, which earns them their name, but there is a...

One of my shield males molted to sub-adult, and now I see that the other 5 aren't even sub-adult yet. They have wing buds but they aren't nearly as large as the ones on the back of this fella.

I was 8 for 8 with Hierodula membranacea when I first started in the hobby, the molting troubles began when they molted to adult - then I was 6 for 8 with 4 of them being perfect molts. So knock on wood with these babies. Nowadays I am a lot more cautious and observant, when one is about to...

According to this 3-4 cm, so they are quite small. http://www.usamantis.com/12-25-10sinomantis_denticulata.html

I have six of these, not adult yet, but they are quite fascinating. Funny you mentioned Hierodula, their threat pose is almost exactly the same - they even have black in between the segments of their abdomen that are exposed when they flatten their abdomen. Hierodula membranacea have this and a...

Last Friday my Violin molted to adult and it was the most nervewracking experience I ever had. At one point, she was only held on the stick by one foot and a piece of tape. She had slipped earlier with only two feet clinging onto the stick and I was ready with tape. I had a gut feeling she would...

The raised surface feeding method will work fine. I had to do that after Jasper mismolted, almost completely disfigured but I tried to keep her alive. I just can't bring myself to put a creature out if I had raised it for so long. Right now I kinda have to do something like this for Angus. Her...

I've had a Chinese mantis who was eggbound for most of her life. She just died this past week but she still lived a lot longer than her siblings. She was part of the first mantis hatching that I ever witnessed, 26 baby mantises spread throughout my bedroom floor. The egg was on the floor and...

How long is he?

A Violin mantis is an Empusid. An Orchid mantis is a Hymenopodid. Sure, a species could cross breed with another species in the same genus, and even different genuses but still in the same family, but what you are attempting is between two families. Tigons and Ligers are both crosses between...

My baby Rhombodera basalis would catch multiple fruit flies in a feeding. They'll catch one, start chewing it, catch another and sometimes have up to four being eaten at once!