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Hey everyone! I was taking some portraits of one of my idolos and when reviewing them noticed these little squiggly things on its eye. Has anyone seen this before? At first glance I thought it was a parasite. Its due for a molt in the next week or so and I plan on monitoring it, but am curious...

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I have fired up the ol' 3d printer and I'm looking for ideas for my mantises. I'm more leaning towards functional prints rather than, say, sculptures and such. Just curious if anyone has had any ideas of things that would make your enclosures better...

Hey everyone. Super bummed out right now. I lost both my adult female ghosts due to what I believe is sickness. Both exhibited black puking. My first girl made it about a week and a half from noticing the puke, my second less than four days. I would like to think my husbandry isn't the issue--I...

Hey everyone. I can't find a solid answer (I tried searching, but there is so much information on this site to dig through) as to why there seems to be a variance between using i or L to designate the mantises instar. I get the i for instar, but where does L come in? I've basically been using a...

Found a nice shelving unit and re-arranged and consolidated my setup yesterday! The aquarium was on a coffee table and everything else was musical enclosures that I would constantly have to move. This way I have easy access to all my babies! Just to get an idea of what your're looking at, the...

Hello everyone. I have some Ghost Mantis ootheca for sale. Prices lowered. PM for details.

Hey everyone. I am posting today because I am concerned about my oldest Ghost. She has been an adult for over a month now and has yet to lay an ooth. Her sister on the other hand molted to adult about two weeks after her and has laid two ootheca already, as of this morning. As you can see in the...

Hey everyone! Another noob question, and predicament. So if you follow any of my other posts, you may have known that I went out of town for a bit and had to leave my mantises alone. I eclosed probably 50 Blue Bottles as well as dumped a bunch of pupae in each enclosure to allow ample food while...

Hello again everyone! I am back with a question that I have been looking for some more info. Like the title says, I am curious about my two adult female ghosts and how often I should be feeding them. I have tried my best at searching this forum, and elsewhere online and I have yet to find...

I have relatively easy access to these little critters in the wild (or more like my garage). If anyone has interest let me know!

Hey everyone. Sad news today, I lost one of the three Idolos I had just gotten last Thursday. I am curious about its death because I have seen other posts (mainly the 'Idolomantis Consolidated' thread in the General Mantid Discussion) where mantises 'mysteriously' die while hanging upside down...

Starting a thread for my three new Idolos! They arrived last Thursday. This is my first go at raising this species so I'm open to any and all advice! Thanks for looking!

I just want to post because I am suuuuper excited to start raising Idolomantis Diabolica! Anyone currently raising them? I'd love to see some pictures and read some stories about them!

EDIT: Idolos just hatched at mantidkingdom.com! Looks like theyre going fast! I'm sure I'm not the first person in this forum looking, but I would really like to get an orchid or idolo or two to raise.

Just got access to a good camera, so here are some pictures of the crew! I'm hoping to get some macro lenses soon. So I have had The Gang for about two months now. They arrived (what was described on the sellers website) i4-i5 and have all molted once. They are happily munching on blue bottle...

I woke up this morning before work to find this guy mid molt! I rushed to get my camera set up and tried my best to get this going so I wouldn't be late. Full timelapse here So heres how I made this time lapse. If you want to follow this exactly you will need a USB webcam that will capture...

PM yer dead! I want to play around with epoxy casting and I want to try preserving mantises. PM me if you have any mantises who have met their grisly fate!

I'm curious if anyone has any dead specimens they would possibly ship? Or if you have a mantis or other special invert that you would like preserved, I am trying to learn how to preserve insects via epoxy casting. I would pay for some well preserved and exotic dead specimens, or would only...

I know my mantises dying is an inevitability, so I'm curious of this communities methods on preserving these beautiful creatures. I have some casting epoxy and some silicone molds, so my first foray into insect preserving is going to be this route, but I would like to know what you do and if...

Hey everyone! I am a longtime mantis enthusiast, but a novice mantis keeper. I had received four l4-l5 Ghost Mantises a week and a half ago and I am hoping to get some advice and feedback on 1) How well I am keeping my mantises and 2) the gender of them. My terrariums consist of some soil at...