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Some females need a lot of privacy before they feel comfortable enough to lay properly. I had a female orchid living in a very lush planted 12"x12"x12" terrarium with many different width sticks but she would not lay anything more than tiny little blobs of ooth material that did not contain any...

It happens. Last week I put my ghosts together to mate again and they were fine staying together almost the whole time, mating on & off over the week but came to remove the male and only found a pile of wings under the female. She decided to eat him after all that time together! She had been...

Sometimes turning down the lights helps them get in the mood. I had a pair of ghosts that refused to mate with the lights on. When I finally turned the lights off and it was almost completely dark in the room the male immediately made a B-line for her and got down to business.  Another thing...

Anyone can buy macro equipment but you have a special talent with that camera, @Precarious 

That picture has such good composition, beautiful. I do know how difficult it can be to capture the perfect angle so I'm even more impressed by it.

Very cool. I've had two tailless whip scorpions for over a year and have never had the pleasure of watching either one of them during a molt. I'm always too late for the event and just come across a discarded exoskeleton then a mostly dry but somewhat agitated to be disturbed insect. Watching...

This is the picture @Synapze originally sent of the underside of his G. amoena thinking I needed to count the segments. The long thin shape of the abdomen and it having no visible dark spots on it's side plus the lack of obvious lobes on the legs led me to believe it was a male although the...

I originally wrote this guide for @Synapze after he messaged me asking how to *** his adult Galinthias amoena because the little bugger was too fast to count segments. I decided it was too helpful not to share with everyone. Right now I don't have any good nymph pictures to show how to ***...

I was mainly referring to all the deaths after hatching an ooth rather than males getting eaten. I've come to expect losses of roughly 25% to 50% of the hatchlings, some from exhaustion, some because they won't eat, some from mismolts, some from cannibalism, some from unknown causes, even a few...

I never named my mantises (I only name pets that would respond to a name) but yeah it still sucks to lose one, its something you've cared for and put a lot of time and effort into keeping alive so you feel like you've failed when it dies. Breeding them results in tons of deaths and I've gotten...

Well, whatever the problem was with her eyes she passed on today. I fed her this morning and she seemed fine, same amount of energy and enthusiasm while eating. A couple hours later I saw her hanging sideways on the piece of bark but just now (about 10 hours after I last checked) I found her...

She seems about the same today. The almost black dark purple color of her left eye really worries me but so far it hasn't developed necrosis (that I can see) and the amount of swelling hasn't changed in several days. I've been trying to test her level of vision which is hard to do even when they...

I had three females and a male Galinthias amoena I was going to breed together but the third female took significantly longer than her sisters to make her final molt to adulthood so he only lived long enough to fertilize the first two.  I am hoping to find another male to fertilize the third...

I didn't end up putting her down, I was going to but changed my mind last minute. I was feeding her a last meal and noticed she anticipated the spoon coming towards her, she grabbed onto it before excitedly dunking her head in to eat...so she was able to identify the spoon well enough to know...

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Thank you! @hysteresis @MantisGirl13

Thank you. It's always hard to know when to euthanize a mantis that persists in staying alive but in her case I think letting her eyes continue to worsen would not be the best course of action. Since it looks like she has irreversible widespread damage to both eyes she has no chance of regaining...

As you can see from that last pic there's what looks like a purple ulcer on the back of her right eye. Today I got a better look at it, and tried to take a pic but the angle was a bit awkward so it didn't come out as clear as I would have liked. I noticed that the purple of the left eye has...

She's still acting about the same and she still has a very healthy appetite but her eyes are noticeably more swollen than they were this morning. The black part of her right eye looks especially bad, bulging out even more than it was in the first pic. I'm wondering if the swelling goes down...

The pics seem to be acting up, sometimes showing up, sometimes broken so here are the clickable URLs: Front view https://www.image-story.com/images/s_2/d8b42aba0900347a3fac_3.jpg Top.view, eating bug burger slurry https://www.image-story.com/images/s_2/d8b42aba0900347a3fac_4.jpg This is her...