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Just an update. She is eating a mealworm as I type this! Just had to chop the head off and squeeze out the guts a little. Thanks for all the help! I have been misting her enclosure to get her more humidity as well. 

Ok, Thanks again, MantisGirl13!

great! Thanks!  One unrelated question...would I be able to handle her ever again since her eyes are like that? Will she try to fly away? 

oh no. The poor girl.. 😭 Wow, had no idea they had extra simple eyes. In the middle of her head, huh?  I have a mealworm farm so maybe I can just cut a meal worm in half and use tweezers to feed her the two parts? 

thanks MantisGirl13. Will her eyes become better with time? I don't see how she will be able to eat since she won't be able to actually see her prey? but we will get to that when her abdomen gets skinny, right? My girlfriend gave her 4 crickets and she ate all of them. She just drank from my straw. 

i have some window screen material that I could cut out and attach that somehow to the top of her enclosure. Her eyes look shriveled. Very scary looking. I put my finger next to her face and she can't even see it. (or at least she wont follow it when I move it around her head) Can you see the...

Thanks for the tips mantismart. 

She definitely had a proper place to molt. Her molt was hanging upside down on this fake plant I have in there for a couple days until it fell to the ground. If you zoom in on the pictures I uploaded you will see her eyes and how abnormal they look. Or is this not as big of a deal as I think it...

Hello. I have what I believe to be a European mantis? She/he was found in my yard. I wish I would have left her there now. She was doing great for about 3 weeks. Then her eyes started turning black. Then about 3 days ago she molted. Now she looks awful. Her eyes are still black and almost look...