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Although I am new at this and have not see then wings unfurled.

I have a great looking Green Giant Asian female that has wings as of her last molt and a Brown, male GA waiting for his wings to develop. I hope to mate them and get???? Is either brown or green dominant? To mate them, I guess I feed her up, not hard to do as she is a real glutton and then...

I love this Mantid hobby! I have a couple young grandchildren (their father is a marine biologist) who are getting real educational value through helping me. Great way to spend the Summer for a young kid!! The costs are low compared to other hobbies and Mantids don't bite (important to my...

Here is a dumb newbie question ... My wife and I will take a few long weekend trips this Summer; Las Vegas, San Francisco, etc. If I throw in a couple extra medium sized crickets and mist before I leave, will my mantid girls be OK for 3 or 4 days? I have a cat sitter come in to feed my felines...

My ravenously hungry Asian didn't eat today and all of a sudden she began to act oddly, dropped down for a bit to the floor of her enclosure and now I see a "shell" laying on the floor of the enclosure. My first molt! How long until she is back to normal and safe to fe d crickets again? Do I...

Someone here wrote that solely crickets is not good. I have a cricket keeper and feed them food which is supposed to contain extra calcium and vitamins. My "guys" are too large for the available fruitflys and here in SoCal, not bragging, it is so dry that hardly any insects except for ants are...

I have an L3 (maybe L4?) Wide Arm and a little larger Asian. I have had the first about 3 weeks and the second one 2 weeks and they eat well, seem to be doing well, etc. I wonder when I will see a molt? How long is the period between molts? Thanks in advance for an answer

I have a couple cats and perhaps I should have expected a Mantid, same sort of predator as a cat I guess, to exhibit similar hunting characteristics but cats are smart mammals. How big can a Mantid cortex be!? My Mantid, JC (Jackie Chan) acts much the same as the cats. When I put her into a...

I have a nice, luxurious even, habitat for the L4 or L5 Asian I got from "Butterfly". The habitat isn't too large, about 10" high 10" long and 6" wide. It has a nce moss substrait, artficial plants, etc. and I mist it daily here in our dry SoCal climate. I have been feeding crickets. If I...

I am a "newbie" who now has 3 L3s and an L4 ... Giant Asian and "wide armed" spcies. They are still pretty small. I put moss in the bottom of a "cage", clear plastic 3 or 4 cup sized things, I put in a couple of fruitflys and a couple of pinhead crickets and I mist the sides of the cage every...

I went to the Big Lots Store last night. You guys here in the States may know that this was formerly Pic N Save. They sell odd lots and close out, distress merchandise, that kind of stuff, usually pretty cheap. In the educational toy section I found "bug holders". These are I'd estimate to...

I know, they don't live long after their final molt and all and I have some ooths waiting to hatch, an L2 and an L3 in little habitats too but to show my family what I am up to with this new hobby, I need a mantid that looks like a REAL MANTID! Any of you dealers out there have a suggestion? a...

I just visited our neighborhood Petsmart to get feeders and housing for them; crickets, pinheads, cricket food plus stuff for my terrariums that will be delivered in the next day or two. I am a newbie, have "ooths" and a Giant African L3 on the way and I needed help. I didn't expect much...

I read that the best thing to do when the nymphs hatch (these will be Chinese something?) is to place the hatchlings in a netted enclosure, put a cup of small fruitfiles or wingless fruit flies in the middle of the "cage", mist once a day and divide them up every few days into enclosures with...

My OOs are in the mail and my nymphys are on the way so I just got back from the grand openning of a new, local PetSmart I visited to see if they carried the supplies I need. They have a lot of stuff including live and frozen FFs, crickets, worms of all kinds ... frozen but live, frozen but...

Can I just buy crickets or other small "bugs" at PetCo? I really don't want (my wife doesn't want!) fly cultures, etc in the house. We have both PetCos and Petsmarts within a few blocks (I work in the Petco kitten rescue program weekends) so shopping for my mantids' groceries once a week is...

I actually went to Google Video and looked up "Mantis" and they have literally dozens of mostly feeding videos. I think I read where Google bought "You Tube" recently and that is where they transfer you. Some are done very well. Newbie question; I am not up on latin names yet. What is a...

At the big petstores, do they carry the fly larvae and fruitflies, etc I will need when my babies hatch? I know they do have crickets. I see fly growing and supplying machine looking things I can order on-line but to tell the truth, it was enough of a battle to get my wife to allow a terrrium...

So ... I string the oothca up in an enclosure, the nymphs slide out when they are ready and then what do I do with them? I saw a picture here where they are in some straw looking stuff. Is that where I keep them? And I pour in some fly larva from Petco ... and when they start looking bigger...

I have always been a science fan ... as a layman anyway. I have had microscopes since I was a kid, go to museums, watch all the science shows and nature shows on TV, etc. As a child I collected butterflies and insects and I have had tarantullas as pets. A few years ago I had a "mini-ranch" in...