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Hi all, I'm afraid it may be too late to ask for advice. My chinese praying mantis got pregant months ago and has still  not laid her eggs. I have had her in a butterfly cage with the tips of some mugwort stalks, which I know they like to lay their eggs on in nature. She is still eating and...

Hi fellow mantid lovers! I need some advice. Not sure if this is abdomen collapse, but  i am raising 8 preying mantises this year , and have seen a number of them get this problem. Despite this, they  remain active and eating. The abdomen seems loosely attached and is sometimes raised at an...

Hi folks, I have 2 females and a male each in their own butterfly cage and have been trying to breed them. I have been taking the male (named PD) and one female out and leaving them alone in my bathroom for a day or so and then alternating with the other female (not much rest for the male). I...

Hi, I have 4 females and 2 males-Chinese praying mantids. One of the males has trouble eating cause of a bad arm and is very thin. One of the females has bent wingtips that hang over her rear a bit. I keep them in a small bathroom in butterfly cages in the tub. I let them take turns...

Hi folks, I love this forum! One of my Chinese praying mantids wings have curled up at the tips (see photo). I had placed it in a cage with less ventilation than the other 5 I am raising. Could this have been the cause? It wasnt born this way. It is a few weeks old., and this just happened. Is...

Hi, last year I managed to keep alive a male and female Chinese mantis  and they  reproduced and my baby mantises just hatched (thanks to the wonderful support and advice from many on this forum!). I do not have fruit flies on hand and I just ordered some but the seller said they are fresh and...

You have all been so helpful!! Yay! My female Chinese Praying  Mantis just had sex in my bathroom. I didnt see it, but when I came home they were finally apart (after about 24 hours).She ate from my hand when they were together so maybe thats why she didnt eat him.  I put the male back in his...

I would like to mate 2 of the 3 mantids I raised. I think they are all males because their wings are longer than their abdomens. But one is much bigger and has five segments. Could it be capable of mating with a male or is it a male? They are each now in butterfly cages. If I want to mate them...

Its my first time raising mantids and Im freaking out. I have 4 of them and I just went to check on them and 2 have just molted and sprung wings. Im attaching pictures. One is hanging and has the molt attached to one of his lets. The other is on the bottom of the cage and is laying on her side...

Im new at this and raising a few mantises from an egg case. This is the second time I saw this protruding from what looked to be the same part that some black stuff (poop) came out. This has been there for 24 hours. It is two translucent, yellowish spheres with a black dot in the center. I dont...

Hi! I am a new high school biology teacher from north  Jersey who spent the last 3 decades as an environmental scientist. I took an egg case to school which hatched and I decided to raise some of the praying mantises. They are now about 3 months old, not yet adults. I have a consuming question...