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I regret to inform you that our mantis wasn't one of the lucky ones - she didn't make it. Thank you all for the support and advices you gave us. It was nice to be a part of such a positive community. 

It was a bit more than a week - about 10 days assuming that she last molted around 17-18 June. If a mantis stops eating a few days before molting then it gives her about 4-5 days to full 2 weeks.  Today she's still refusing to eat though. I think our only option is to hang her upside down now -...

Update Today she refused to eat for the first time. She's also noticeably less active even during feeding. We are planning to tape her in the right position for molting tomorrow - that is gonna be a tough one so keep your fingers crossed. We keep humidity of 75-80% in temperature about 25°C...

Update Situation seems to be pretty stable at the moment - nothing has changed for better but also nothing has changed for worse, which i guess is kind of success. She still eats a lot and tries her best to get up. Since the situation isn't changing we would like to already start preparing...

Oh i just realised how on this videos it looks as if she wasn't getting to eat anything because of the shaking hand. Don't worry, we were only checking the raptoral arms here. Of course there were more attempts but it would take too long to upload here, especially if on any other videos she...

UPDATE Today the situation is still pretty much the same - the mantis lays on its side totally idle for the most of time and gets more active during feeding. We tried to give her a whole piece of an insect but sadly she hasn't shown any interest in grabbing it with her arms. She could only keep...

The mealworms our mantis is feeded on now are getting their heads chopped off before too, but good to know for the future! I woudln't have thought that they could be able to bite a mantis so badly ? At first she was so weak that we haven't even thought of giving her a whole piece of an insect -...

She's getting mealworms and honey dissolved in water three times a day (the honey even more often than that). We are planning to provide her also some fruit flies soon.

Hello, As i promised i took a chance to record our mantis getting feeded. Her behaviour today exceeded  our expectations - she was fighting really hard to get up and actually managed to do it on her own! It might be thank to the new "bedding" she got (a piece of cotton cloth she's laying on)...

As i mentioned it mostly lies down. However (s)he becomes kind of energetic whenever the feeding time comes (but not only, it seems to be more energetic in general in our opinion).  Most importantly it never refuses to eat and has some really huge appetite. The only problem is its legs which...

For most of the time it lies on its side and don't make any movements. However often when it's getting feeded it energeticly moves all its legs, most likely trying to get up, but without our help it's very difficult if not impossible. The "tips" of the legs seem to be paralized to me. I also am...

Yes, it's the mealworm. It's not there anymore, my friend cleaned it up.

I'm pretty sure this mantis has enough will to stay alive. It's a little fighter.  So as i understand we are now supposed to wait till the next molt and not do much more except for feeding it? I'm not entirely sure about the idea with tape though. Am i supposed to do this if something goes...

Hello Me and my friend decided to try rising a mantis even though we are total noobs in this matter. We ordered a L4 orchid mantis through the internet (it's quite possible that we were fooled and it's actually below L4), however the guy from whom we bought it didn't inform us that the mantis...