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My mantis Anainah lost a leg during her last molt. Will her leg grow back with her next molt? It is one of her walking legs. She doen't seem to miss it. She climbs like she have all her legs. I think she is L5 (dont know fore sure, in pets hop they couldn't tell me how she she was when I...

I have an annoying problem. My mantis doesn't eat since his last molt, I force fed it some dubia goo. just now I forced fed him a tiny grasshopper, He started to eat and after a few bites he tossed it. What can I do? I want him hunt him his prey and eat it like a normal mantis does. If he...

I missed having a mantis at home so I bought a deroplatys trancata at the petshop. He/she is still very small, like he is L2 or L3. Very small. He/she is very curious when he is out of his home. I hope to she/he grow a healthy mantis

New year, new mantids  will be coming to me. it  will be a male and a female Sphodromantis. Is not the mantis I will get. But male and female will be L6    

...somehow she can't lay it. I see her trying and trying. I see her her putting her butt up and trying to lay it on the mesh. I am afraid she is eggbound and that will cost her life.  I gave her extra huimidity. What can i do to help her to lay her ooth? I am worried if she doesn't do it she...

Meet Chico. ( he is a Pyrrhura Frontalis.) He came home last saturday. He is handfed so he is used to humans and can be out of his cage. Hubby gave Chico a mini tree where he sits on like you can see in pic. I hope this guy will be a long time with me. He is  still young and has a lot to learn.

A new year, a new fresh topic for mantis pics. Yesterday my male hissing roaches were fighting .(Ulgoth and Ateyo) Sheralynn saw that and had her eyes glued to the wall of her home to keep the roaches in sight.😂 and she had just dinner.

I wish you all a merry christmas and a healthy happy new year

Since a few weeks I have a new pet. It is a budgie. I don't know yet if he is female or male. He talks a lot. it sounds funny. I hope i can tame him so he can out of his cage too.

My female hierodula membranacea female molted when I had na nap. I found her on the bottom of her home.   i think she fell during the drying up fase. She is messed up. Her backlegs are not in their normal shape. she misses 1 leg. I think it broke off when she fell. What can I do for her now to...

I have my first ghost ooth. I am not sure that it is fertile (I hope it is), because I didn't see my ghost couple connecting (maybe they did at night ;) )How should I take care of it? Totally newbie with this . Another question: how long is the incubation time?

I have a few adult females who are needing to lay their ooths. My h.masjuscula is very fat. I have put popsicle sticks on the lid where she can lay it on. Or do they prefer other places? Same case with a H.membranacea and a ghost. I already lost a mantis of being eggbound and that is not fun...

Ghosty, my ghost adult male is barely eating since his molt. I can put some flies in his cup, but he ignores them. He doesn't like hand feeding, but that way I get him to eat a bit. This abdomen is so thin. My question is how to get my Ghost eat better? I tried Dubia goo, pieces of grasshopper...

My male hierodula masjuscula, Tybalt is dying (not much life in him left, sadly enough) I am thinking to pin him instead of burrying him in the garden. How can I prepare his body the best for pinning? what about his abdomen, will it rot?

I bought 2 hissing Roaches ( Gromphadorhina portentosa ) and they will arrive  tomorrow. They are young adults, so i will see no molts of them. These 2 are the ones that are chosen to be my new pet insects. I name them Neyteri and Ateyo: new species, so the names are re-useable. ;)

Soraya was  running and she ran in a cricket trap that was hidden and she got stuck sadly enough in the trap,  I could free her for the biggest part. She lost a leg sadly enough. she is still stuck with one leg and a part of her abdomen. I have trying for a long time to free the poor girl. How...

Yesterday morning I found Cleo on the ground of her home. She didn't eat for a few days en I was  expecting her to molt,  I gave her honey water for strength and fluids. The poor girl is so weak, I will give her something to drink again, but it don't look good. there isn't much life in her... I...

Have someone some experence with panther mantids? How did they care for them? Can they live on room temp? I see my beeder has them  at the moment.

Yesterday and this morning I saw a few hatched flies in my fly pupea box. I had a few hungry mantids waiting so I didnt mind. But I thought flies wouldn't hatch in the fridge because it is too cold for them.  there are still a few flies in there i am going to give to freshly molted Soraya...

The last couple of days, Ateyo seemed to be spooked and didn't wanted to eat. And this morning I found him in a really bad shape. I gave him honey water that he drank. But no improvements. he even throwed up. The last thing he ate was mealworms.  I had to let him go... I tossed the mealworms.I...