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Thank you, CosbyArt. That is good to know as he was my first mantis. 15 months would have been awesome, though.

Hi again. Looks like the clock ran out on poor Ed today. His final molt was in late December. That’s about 7 months of age, with 2 in the adult phase. I hope this is considered a good run for a ghost mantis. I will miss the little guy.

I got mourning geckos back in June and yesterday their first egg hatched. It's so tiny, I think my mantis could eat it.

Yes, I did. :) Thanks for the link. I think I'll try my local grocery store for something like this as 1000 cups is a few too many. There's a no bugs rule on our refrigerator, so I can't really use that trick. I didn't have much trouble with them getting loose from that smaller cup anyway. ...

Part of my problem is the width of the opening. The flies escape all over the place. Thanks, though.

It's some sort of paper that's glued in place and gets really yucky from the fly media. I was hoping to be able to just do a bulk order of prepunched lids and cups, but I haven't had luck finding a seller of anything but the 32oz size.

Does anyone know where to get small (8oz?) sized vented lid culturing cups? My starter culture came in such a cup, but I have only been able to find the big 32oz cups for making new cultures. I only have one mantis so using 32oz cups is really wasteful, plus it's much, much harder to transfer...

Has anyone tried feeding Repashy Grub Pie to a mantis? It is intended to be a full replacement for live feeder insects. Repashy has some literature out suggesting it can be fed to insectivorous invertebrates such as mantids. I was thinking of trying to offer it to my ghost mantis after he...

Greetings from a very hot and muggy eastern Pennsylvania, birthplace of our nation. I'm not sure exactly how I ended up on my current bug kick, but here I am. Maybe it's a midlife crisis thing or I'm reliving my childhood, or something. I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks, and I just...