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lol ok since you like em, heres one of the button the sewed through my pointer finger. The tendon couldnt reattach itself to the bone so they drilled through my fingernail pulled the string through, and sewed it on with a button. The guys at work were merciless, the whole time it was "oh I loost...

I dont think I ever shared this with you guys but I just came across these pictures and since I finally have a photobucket acct I can share the devastation, lol. This is what I did to my hand last year. I am very happy to say that now I can use it pretty much normally but 3 fingers are kind of...

lol sorry not me, im in the US

All of my nymphs have been started on the flightless fruitflies, The Chinese are getting big quick (but they started off bigger) Then my Stagmomantis limbatas or Carolinas were still undecided, are all going through their first sheds. Its so funny to watch these tiiiiny bugs run after an even...

yeah shed do that when I touched her back. Thanks guys, I sure hope its a Carolina as I have 3 ooths from her, and just bought an ooth of Californicas from Rick. I do love my bugs but I like keeping a variety of em too!

Ok Im a bit confused on the species I had, now that her ooths are hatching I think im calling them the wrong kind of Matind. Can anyone ID my bug?

All 30 or so of the Chinese nymphs I have like to hang on the raffia grass I have in their jar but the 20 or so Stagmomantis Limbatas I have like to mostly hang from the screen. Maybe I just need a bigger lid for the Chinese to hang from. Different strokes for different... bugs, lol.

I did notice we have quite a few aphids and weird little bugs in the tree's, and its close to the rosebushes so they can clear them of those darn aphids. I did manage to catch 11 of em to keep inside at least. Maybe Ill take the other ooth to a nice park overlooking the whole Valley here...

I just bought a really neat cage that I can only assume was for a snake or a lizard, Its quite tall with 2 sides and the bottom being glass, and the remaining sides and top screen. The top screen slides out one way and the front has a screen that slides up to about halfway. Im thinking of...

My Stagmomantis Limbatas started hatching around April 1. The second on April 12, and I have a 3rd that hasnt hatched yet. Could be late bloomers, could be infertile. I also have 4 or so Religiosa ooths that havent hatched yet. Im thinking their not fertile so Im going to cut into one...

JC I never mated the Stagmomantis or the Religiosa I had laast year. Buuut they were both wild caught. The Limbata laid 3 ooths and 2 have hatched so far. My faaaaavorite bug ever, Thor the relgiosa. She laid 5, well 6 but the last one was way deformed and none of hers have hatched. So while...

So I had gotten a couple of Chinese nymphs from Veggie, and he included a couple ooths too. Of all the nymphs he sent me only one is still kickin, and just had its first or second shed over the weekend) So I decide to check on the ooths I put in the Apple tree's and I notice the strings comin...

My Chinese that Veggie sent me just had his first shed, well the first since Ive had him. It was pretty cool! All my bugs last year were already adults so I never saw it. Now Im just waiting on all my Stagmomantis Limbata nymphs to start shedding. (I hope I dont loose many more!)

Welcome Kris!

I just loved my religiosa, but it was an adult when I found it. The ooths are a whole different story. Mine arent hatching yet but from what Rick's said before, Im kind of apprehensive of them hatching..

I had found my first wild Mantids last year and got way too attached to my European. She laid me 5 ooths, and my Stagmomantis Limbata laid 3, and the last one's have started hatching so Im better about loosing the mothers now. When I had to put Thor (my religiosa) down I was so sad my mom told...

Ive had many crickets eat eachother and battle eachother quite a bit. But I get mine from Petco. Maybe theyre just mean little suckers from there.

Ok Thanks. I just didnt know if it would be 2 weeks, then 2 weeks from there and so on. All the Mantids I caught in the wild last year were already adults. The 2 females I caught even laid ooths within the first month of me catching them. So those are the nymphs I have now, Im just hoping the...