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Yes, thank you for the suggestions and I've learned a lot about the mantis life cycle in a very short time! Fascinating! So as per your suggestions I am going to place the stick with the ootheca on a spruce tree in our backyard and let it ride out the winter there. I can check in the spring and...

Ok, thanks. I am thinking of transferring the momma to another container (to keep indoors for the kids to watch) and putting the original container with the ootheca outside, somewhere up near a branch or tree. Alternatively, I can maybe remove the stick with the ootheca and attach the stick to a...

Hi, We acquired a mantis from a local park back in August (see photos... not sure what species it is and how it got here). We fed it a constant diet of grasshoppers from our backyard over the past month. It was getting fatter and fatter, until yesterday we noticed an egg sack! It's almost...

Thanks, I'll post perhaps a general question in the main forums somewhere and see if anyone has some suggestions. The egg sac is just recently laid and was for the most part exposed to normal room temperatures (22 C or around 70 F) except for last night when it got a bit colder (maybe 12-15 C or...

Hi everyone, I'm from Toronto, Canada. My kids and I found a praying mantis (which we have since named "Priscilla") about 1 month ago (mid-August) in a park and took it home. We put it in a large plastic container with a bunch of woody sticks and fed it as many grasshoppers as it could eat...