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Yea I was thinking of trying to raise regular fruit flies. Want to try that when spring arrives. Its winter so I imagine it would be impossible to do it right now. And besides there is no need for me to do it now hence i dont have any mantids left...but thx for reminding me :)

In Serbia. A place where you can't get anything that is out of the ordinary. I kinda got used to that but its a pitty u know, that cause of that I lost both of my hatches. Feels rly bad man. Plus I have recently lost the fully grown mantis- she died of old age. So now I dont have any :(

Lol as much as I like your proposition I am unable to accept it. I dont have a credit card yet xD and besides its too late now anyways. I ll try to find something around here. Tried with microworms, but they are too small. If this hatch dies I hope i get food for a 2nd one that is probably...

I ve just got an unexpected nymph hatch. There are a lot of them, i am not sure how many, but they cought me off guard. Now for storing i will take plastic cups with a stick and mesh on which they can molt. The problem is feeding. I dont have any small insects like fruit flies or something. I...

MantisGirl13 thank you so much for the quick reply :)

Thx for all your compassion and quick replies. Well it might have been a mix of all factors. So next time i will try to find a younger specimen. Before that I had a small male, but I let him go and I took the brownish female. But for some reason he was also hanging at the top, so it seems that...

Ok i'll be completely honest. I am new here and I love mantids since my childhood. Recently I saw a tutorial on youtube on how to pet a mantis. Since at this time of year there are lots of mantids everywhere i decided to take one as a pet myself. It was a brownish female  european mantis. I was...