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Hello! I’ve been raising five Carolina mantises this summer from an ooth I found in February. One of the four is a female. My entomologist friend gave me the idea of trying to put her outside in a mesh kind of Malaise trap to call in males via pheromones. Do any of you have experience with this...

I made a funnel trap with an old water bottle and some canned cat food. Does anyone have an easy way to harvest the flies out of the trap?

My male Phyllocrania paradoxa had his final molt about three weeks ago. He has been doing fine, but he keeps wedging himself in a corner of the planted terrarium I keep him in. I’ve found him stuck like this five or six times now. I help him out each time, but a day or so later I find him wedged...

I had run out of flies for my L5 male ghosty, and he hadn’t eaten for ten days (part of which he was preparing to molt). Thank God I was able to get him to take a dubia roach piece today by trying something new since tweezers were freaking him out. I stuck the piece on the end of a thin sewing...

Hi! Just joined the forum today. I’m big into ant keeping, and I’m actually a moderator over on formiculture.com. My son and I are getting into mantids, too, now, so I thought joining here would help. We raised a Stagmomantis carolina ooth this summer and got a male almost to adulthood before he...