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Happy Birthday Rebecca! Have a great day with your grandbabies!

PhilinYuma was up there ( a great guy, not just mantis guy)...

:clap: well done buddy

Brian, you beat me to it :P Nick, ol' buddy...whatever your doing today, I hope its splendid Birthday, enjoy it with family and friends! :D (because, I don't think we get younger on days like these, granted I haven't had one in awhile, so I tend to forget :P :lol: :P :lol: ) Cheers...

If your reasoning in using moss is for appearance than spahgnum moss looks better when wet, and in that case it will encourage mold growth, you can add springtails to the moss and they will help lower the mold production...

Welcome back from Florida! :)

Yeah, it should be fine.

Don't just feed him to her....get her to grab his head/upper thorax, his reaction should be to try andate with her....see if you can detach his upper thorax from the rest of his body and place him on her back, with his legs he should try and grasp her and his abdomen should try to mate with...

Most of the milkweed seen is southern milkweed down here, if any of you have the northern milkweed seeds, I'd love to grow some (bigger leaf for cats and more food than the southern sp...)

I just had to plant a new milkweed garden for all the monarchs and queens that tend to cover my one large milkweed... hopefully this helps out the species....nice to see other members into butterflies :) (and the spider looks like p audax, but not too sure)

Common house gecko....got to hatch this little one myself :) ....I've really wanted a crestie, hopefully soon! :)

It could be black fire ant, thatcher ant, or harvester ant...

That first ant from the google search is, Iridomyrmex purpureus (meat ant or gravel ant)....endemic to Australia....so I don't think that is it....

No, usually females will happily eat while mating....perhaps she is full, but that might not be the case, as they can eat a lot...

Yup, also known as that too... where did you find your info?

Yes (to some degree ;) ), most mantid specie have males that mature faster than the females: in some cases the males mature fast enough to be ahead by one instar, or some males in general have one fewer instar than females. In both cases it is best to lower the temperature of the male and...

A lot better than I did on my first try :P nice! And your better of leaving him mounted on her for awhile undisturbed...he'll eventually get the hang of it (and use the same male tomorrow (the one that almost connected) to attempt at mating today ;) ) Good luck! And good news that those...

Mantoida maya ... Little Yucatan Mantis ...I don't think they've ever been in culture, but native to Florida... (never seen one)...but its native to US... ;) :P

Can you get a picture of them?

This has been answred before I'm pretty sure, use the search feature at the top right...