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okay nvm i’m paranoid she ate fine this morning and is acting completely normal

are you sure they’re all the same instar and that she’s a female? if she’s a bit younger or actually a male she shouldn’t eat so much, i’d wait until her abdomen flattens again to feed her :)

helloooooo i am back with more questions because i’ve poured my will to live into these bugs and i love them more than anything and am paranoid. anyways my budwings look like this: but they molted last night, and this ones sister came out looking like this. i found her on the floor of her...

alright thank you so much that was what i figured :)

alright so this is one of my females and this is is my male theyve all molted twice with me so i know they’re at least L3

i’m sorry i just completely forgot about this gonna go take a picture rn

Hello! So two weeks ago I purchased some budwing nymphs, two of them have just molted and I realised I have no clue what instar they are…? Is there anyway someone could tell me and idea if I give a photo reference against a coin or something like that? At the moment they’re eating Hydei fruit...

well i’ve just put him in the freezer.. i couldn’t watch anymore he kept falling from the top of his enclosure and i even tried holding him on my finger and he kept falling. whenever he would try and walk his legs slipped out from under him… at least he won’t be suffering anymore :(  

well, i don’t think he’s gonna make it :(  got home from shopping and he was lying on the floor of his enclosure, i poked him and he moved a bit, i hung him at the top just in case it was a molting accident but i really don’t think it was… gonna give it 20 minutes and if nothing happens i’ll...

He did drink a little bit off my finger this morning, he wouldn’t drink off the side of his enclosure. I tried to give him honey as well and he ate a little bit. 

actually, now that i’m looking at his siblings they all seem very full even though they last ate 2 days ago so maybe a molt is coming?

oh, thank you i haven’t put him down yet, couldn’t bring myself to do it before i had someone else’s opinion. the vomit would make a lot of sense all of his siblings are full and he’s super skinny atm, my problem is now that he won’t eat, i tried giving him fruit flies and he ignored every one...

this is him compared to the blood :( he still moves his arms and legs when i touch him but his head looks all weird… i’m honestly considering just putting him down now :(

hello all, so i got some new babies yesterday, they are spiny flowers and budwings. one of the budwings was just being fed and i went to snap the lip back on his enclosure and he darted under and well… yeah… i feel so horrible rn but that’s not the point. one of his front arms is clearly quite...

oh- thank you lol

hey all!! i just wanted to share some photos of my girl, venus! after her molt to L5 her color changed completely and she’s soooo gorgeous!! this was her before i even got her, a photo from the seller this is her shortly after she arrived to me  these were her the third day after her last...

luckily, yes! my flies came in and my little mantids are verh very happy little bugs!! only  question is what i’m supposed to feed the flies??

hello everyone! i’m a 16 year old from america who’s pretty new to the mantis hobby. i currently have 3 ghost mantises, neptune saturn and venus, who are L5. i’m very excited to learn more about mantids and get more involved with the mantis community!! mars

hi so basically my ghosts molted to L5 this week, they were previously on fruit flies and all was well. so i was prepared and i ordered some house flies for after their next molt. well, all of the flies arrived dead the day before they molted. yay. so now, i have 3 L5 mantises who won’t eat...