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Awesome!

1-5 days for all the mantises I've raised so far.

FWIW, I do and have always preferred forums over social media.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Just Heartbreaking.

Spikey Boi!

Same happened to one of our Chinese Mantises last summer. Sorry to hear.

Montana_Mantids, Ah, you must be British. I too, was kinda confused at first.

Do you put the culture in the fridge? For how long?

Good to know. Might go ahead and give the powdered sugar a try. I too, dilute honey in a teaspoon with a little bit of spring water and so far, all of my mantids have seemed to love it! At least as a treat. It does seem to give a boost to the ones that aren't doing so well.

Interesting. Is the sugar an added nutritional benefit to the nymphs at all? I do know my pre-adult/adult mantids like honey as a treat/remedy.

LoL, a "Pooter"? I'm going to give the straw trick a try

It slipped my mind, as all these little guys are always super HUNGRY! Feeder control is sooo much easier with bigger mantids. It can be a real pain getting only a few (4-6) Fruit Flies from a 32 oz. culture with 1000s of the dang things doing their own thing (getting out/invading the house), in...

I've got 2x Rhombedera Kirbyi and 2X Majuscula nymphs at stages L2-L3 ish right now (1st time raising them that young). All are separated. How long should I let them harden after a molt before I reintroduce fruit flies? I generally wait about 3 days to feed Mantids @L4-L8. Again, this is my 1st...

Ugh. I was suspecting this was part of one of our mis-forms. This year, we're raising 5 Mantises (1 Rhombedera Kirbyi and 4 Chinese). 1 male (Maize n' blue) had a mis-molt from L7-L8. I was able to help him back up, although not in time, to where his wings were pretty mangled, but worse yet...

Thanks for being kind! Hope he/she pulls thru. What kind of Mantid? Female or male?

Absolute beautiful Mantids you have there, Wes!