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One pair of adult about 5 months, female mated, laid 4 ooths, free. An ooth just hatched out about 30 nymphs available 70 p each. 1 adult male about 1.5 month old 7 pound and subadult female 7 pound, buy now and get a free ooth, all to UK only. PM if interested.

1 adult male and 1 subadult female D. Dessicata. 10 pounds each. Male is a few weeks old. UK only and next day shipping is 5 pounds. PM me if interested.

I have been trying to get my Dessicata to do some threat display without any success. I was waving my hand at it and punching its forearm with my fingers, but it either tries to run away or to climb up my hand..... Anyone got some tips of how to make them doing a threat display? Perhaps I am...

One freshly laid D. Dessicata ooth is available. Mating witnessed. 15 pounds +p&p. UK only.

The nymphs from Ellroy molted last week, and guess what, I happened to catch one in the act with a camera, so here comes another molting sequence And this is some picture of the other nymph And the adults Male: Female

Some nymphs I had a couple of years back

Another molting sequence from a couple of years back..... An a pair of Creobroter Elongata that I had, one of my favourite species

A friend of I showed me these photos posted by a member in a local forum. Apparently this species is quite common in Hong Kong. Could anyone ID this please? Thanks. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/sea.../Newmantis1.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/sea...ntis/M4copy.jpg...

Interesting insect between phasmid and mantis http://www.museums.org.za/bio/insects/mant...todea/index.htm

I might as well post some pics of my mantises: :D H. Coronatus P. Wahlbergii Polyspilota aeruginosa Creobroter Elongata P. Spurca

Polyspilota aeruginosa final molt Oops I was late, wheres the popcorn? 'Full frontal' view Creobroter Elongata final molt View at the back H. Coronatus sub-sub-adult molting with a subad pw running frantically in the background! Chest busting begins.... More...

I have received some very healthy and active mantises from Markus. A good dealer who replies to email promptly and sends off mantises in a timely manner.

Hello, I just got a friut fly culture and the flies look ok but the thing stinks like pee! Is that normal or does it mean I should start a new culture? Thanks.

Hello, I was preparing enclosures for my mantises and I just realized that the humdity in the room is about 20-30%. Upon some misting experiments, I found that I can barely hold the humidity of the enclosure to 60% after some quite heavily misting with the substrate all wet. Since my chinese...

Hello, The other day my friend asked me if inbreeding is going to cause problems with mantis. That is, when you hatch an ooth, raise the nymphs, mate them, produce another ooth, raise the nymphs, mate them, ......... , until forever, is that going to make the mantis smaller, weaker or more...