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Hello all, I have a male orchid mantis that molted 09/09/20 to adult. Unfortunately I don’t have a female to mate him with. I hatched him from a successfully fertilized ooth from a previous pair I had, he is my 2nd generation mantis. I would really like to get a female to breed him with. I...

Hello all, I have a male orchid mantis that just molted today 09/09/20 to adult. Unfortunately I don’t have a female to mate him with. I hatched him from a successfully fertilized ooth from a previous pair I had, he is my 2nd generation mantis. I would really like to get a female to breed him...

Hey All! I’m looking for male spiny flower to mate with my female who is 2 months old. Let me know if anyone is willing to let one go. I am in CA. 

Hello, looking for a male orchid mantis ready to mate. I can buy or work out a trade for future orchid babies/ooth. I am located in California.    thanks for looking!

so I introduced my female and male yesterday night. Fed the girl Dubias and used a popsicle stick to move the male behind her and get him on. It’s been 1 whole day now, I’ve heard him drumming and trying to connect but haven’t actually seen them connect. I want to remove him tomorrow morning and...

Oh ok, thanks for the advice hysteresis!

So I have 3 male and 2 female orchid mantis. I want to be able to breed them. Two of the males have molted into their adult form this past week. The females just molted today to their sub-adult form, so next one should be adult?    my question is, do you think the males will live long enough...

Oh that’s awesome! I definitely will let you know if I’m successful @Gotchea

@MrZorak hey! I just started following you a couple weeks ago. Really digging your pics

Thanks! Glad to be here!

@Jaywo I’m over by concord @hysteresis that’s great to hear, hope to learn a lot and hopefully grow my collection 

@Jaywo awesome! Where in the Bay are you?

Thanks y’all! This is my first venture in mantis keeping and joining a mantis forum, how is the community like ?

Hello everyone, I was at a Carnivorous Plant event at California Carnivores, someone had brought some orchid mantis to give to the owner. I thought they were so cool so I started talking to the person and I found that he had some extra L2/L3 he was selling. Fast forward 2 months and I am now...