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welcome ;)

As to the socializing. Keep them apart. Or they will eat eachother. The only time you want them together is when they are breeding. Fruit fly's are very easy to raise. Go search on the forum and you will find various mixtures to feed the fruit fly's I'm sure they will eat the moths and the...

Lol if you want, you can just send me the half. :D

Yea, they love spiders. I have an immense amount of spiders around my house, and I constantly feed them to my mantids. They love the spiders, they eat the legs and all.

Like Rebecca said, use house spiders, mantids absolutely love those things. they eat the legs and all.

Cute as a button.

Definately chinese.

Lol when I put mine in jars, they always want to grab the lip of the jar, they don't like going in. So I have found a solution to that as well ;) just get a piece of bounty, and drop it over the mantis and lid of the jar, it is very lightweight so it does not hurt the mantids

I had a cricket that I found on its back with a leg twitching. Full grown cricket, did not mash it, or molest it in any way. My mantis grabbed that sucker. :D

Not me, If I nudge them from behind they flare up their wings and get in their "fighting stance" and blowing works, but it's not very effective, sometimes they just chill when I blow on them :P

The mantis looks fine, lol funny little dance he does though.

maybe they are eating, and they just eat them too fast! I have never had a problem getting chinese mantids to eat. Not even the babies. Just give them time

oh boy, pretty soon you are going to have to amputate.. Just use one of your new pincers ;)

Lmao, you all probably scare the living daylights out of them, as long as they know it is your hand. they always climb up lol

Lol thats strange, maybe it is specific to only the Chinese mantids. It works on every single one of mine. Try it again, put your hand above and brush back as if you were petting it. Make sure it sees your hand when it looks up

I love how they come out of those ootheca. in such a tiny little space.

I might try feeding mine a dead cricket, see how it goes.

Very cool. I love this mantis. How long was it before the ooth hatched?

That is pretty cool, I have never tried feeding my mantids something that was dead thus far. I keep my cultures up! ;)

Nice, as lomg as you are not staying at home and lounging with your mantids all day! ;)