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Unfortunately she ended up passing away a few days after I posted 😔

Update: she’s been kind of in the process of laying for a couple hours at this point. A very, very tiny amount has come out and she’s been sitting there looking as though she’s trying to lay more this whole time, but nothing else has come out of her. Usually she lays her tiny little ooths pretty...

She’s infertile! That doesn’t stop my other mantis from laying big ooths all the time, but this one has laid one normal-ish sized one (still smaller than any of my other mantises ooths) and 5 or 6 smaller ones. Usually they’re a bit bigger than the one pictured, but this is her smallest one so...

One of my ghost mantises has been laying very small ooths, but she just keeps getting bigger and bigger rather than deflating after laying them like my other mantis does. She’s doing fine right now, but I was wondering if not laying big enough ooths would cause any kind of health issues for her...

My ghost mantis has mites, presumably from her flies. I’ve tried removing them with a wet q-tip but it’s quite difficult to get them off and she is not a big fan of the whole process. Does anyone have any tips for keeping mites at bay? I clean my fly containers in between batches of flies but it...